BJP secures bulk of 50,000+ margin seats in West Bengal

Riding on a landslide mandate of 207 seats, the BJP accounted for nearly 60 per cent of constituencies where victory margins exceeded 50,000 votes, underlining the scale of its dominance in the West Bengal Assembly polls, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI).

The BJP on Monday scripted history by winning 207 seats in the 294-member House, securing a more than two-thirds majority and ending the TMC’s 15-year rule in the State.

Of the 294 constituencies, at least 39 recorded victory margins of over 50,000 votes, with the BJP winning 23 of these seats, the TMC 15 and one seat went to the Aam Janata Unnayan Party, an analysis of the data released by the ECI said.

Apart from bagging the highest number of such high-margin seats, the BJP also finished second in a majority of constituencies won by the TMC. Several individual results reflected the scale of these mandates.

In Matigara-Naxalbari, BJP’s Anandamay Barman registered the highest margin, defeating TMC’s Shankar Malakar by 1,04,265 votes.

In Dabgram-Fulbari, BJP candidate Sikha Chatterjee won by nearly 98,000 votes against TMC’s Ranjan Sil Sharma, while in English Bazar, Amlan Bhaduri secured a margin of over 93,000 votes.

The TMC, however, also registered commanding victories in several constituencies. In Canning Purba, TMC’s Md Baharul Islam won by over 91,000 votes against his nearest rival, AISF’s Arabul Islam, while in Goalpokhar, Md Ghulam Rabbani secured over 83,000 votes against BJP’s Sarajit Biswas.

In Chopra, Ballygunge, Chanchal and Kolkata Port, TMC leaders Hamidul Rahaman, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Prasun Banerjee and Firhad Hakim won by margins exceeding 60,000 votes, indicating strong pockets of support.

The BJP’s dominance was particularly visible in several northern constituencies, including Siliguri, Cooch Behar Uttar, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduars, where candidates posted margins ranging between 60,000 and 70,000 votes, suggesting a strong regional consolidation of votes. On the other hand, TMC’s big-margin wins are concentrated in its own strongholds.

For the BJP, Bengal is no longer a frontier; it is a governance test.

For the TMC, the battle shifts from retaining power to reclaiming relevance.