The May 4 results of the West Bengal assembly elections delivered a landslide for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won 207 of 294 seats, while the Trinamool Congress (TMC) secured 80. A party needs 148 seats to form a majority in the state. Result… Read on blog or Reader Alt News Read on blog or Reader Bengal results: In 49 seats, under-adjudication voters exceeded the victory margin By Oishani Bhattacharya on 6th May 2026 The May 4 results of the West Bengal assembly elections delivered a landslide for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won 207 of 294 seats, while the Trinamool Congress (TMC) secured 80. A party needs 148 seats to form a majority in the state. Results have been declared for 293 constituencies so far, with repolling in Falta scheduled for May 21. Behind the headline result, however, is a significant pattern tied to the revision of voter rolls. Ahead of the elections, the Election Commission (EC) carried out a months-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise which led to the deletion of over 90 lakh electors. Of those excluded, 27 lakh individuals were placed under adjudication (UA) due to some logical discrepancy identified by an undisclosed algorithm used by the EC. These electors filed appeals to court-appointed tribunals seeking restoration of their names. The elections were held with over 99% of these applications pending with the tribunals. The issue drew attention from the Supreme Court on April 13, when a Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi heard petitions from voters whose appeals were still pending. During the hearing, Justice Bagchi pointed to a critical concern about the relationship between excluded voters and electoral outcomes. Having pointed out that in Bengal, the ECI deviated from the SIR process that had been followed in other states and introduced a new category of ‘Logical Discrepancy’, Justice Bagchi observed, “If 10% of the electorate does not vote and the winning margin is more than 10%…what will happen? Suppose the margin is 2% and 15% of the electorate who are mapped could not vote, then maybe, we are not expressing any opinion, but we would definitely have to apply our minds. Please keep this in mind that the concern of a vigilant voter whose name correctly or incorrectly is not in the list is not in our minds.” An analysis of the 293 declared seats shows that this concern materialised in 49 constituencies, where the number of voters under adjudication was greater than the winning margin. In some constituencies, the gap was humongous. For example, in Rajarhat New Town, the BJP won by 316 votes, while 24,132 electors in the constituency had been placed under adjudication. In Samserganj, the TMC won by a margin of 7,587 votes, but 74,775 voters were still awaiting decisions on their inclusion. Below is a chart listing all such constituencies with winning margins and number of UA voters, and their winners: S. No. Assembly Constituency No. of voters placed under adjudication Winning Margin Winning Party -2026 1 Amdanga 15387 2995 TMC 2 Asansol Uttar 14531 11615 BJP 3 Ashoknagar 10483 9408 BJP 4 Bhatar 17481 6528 BJP 5 Burdwan Uttar 11217 6460 TMC 6 Champdani 7610 3026 BJP 7 Darjeeling 9460 6057 BJP 8 Farakka 38222 8193 INC 9 Harirampur 13463 1986 TMC 10 Hemtabad 18215 12361 BJP 11 Hingalganj 7520 5421 BJP 12 Howrah Dakshin 14701 7828 TMC 13 Jagatballavpur 10273 6671 BJP 14 Jangipara 5432 862 BJP 15 Jangipur 36581 10542 BJP 16 Kakdwip 6238 4760 BJP 17 Kaliganj 12660 10172 TMC 18 Kamarhati 5765 5646 TMC 19 Karandighi 31562 19869 BJP 20 Kashipur-Belgachhia 3369 1651 BJP 21 Khandaghosh 9976 8284 TMC 22 Kharagpur 6168 2872 TMC 23 Kumarganj 20680 6685 TMC 24 Kushmandi 13581 9063 BJP 25 Lalgola 55420 18960 TMC 26 Madhyamgram 14842 2399 TMC 27 Mandirbazar 8390 1995 TMC 28 Manikchak 23726 13938 BJP 29 Mongalkote 21061 12723 BJP 30 Monteswar 23423 14798 BJP 31 Mothabari 37255 10496 TMC 32 Nabagram 9469 5919 BJP 33 Nakashipara 21890 17327 BJP 34 Palashipara 12613 11454 TMC 35 Pandabeswar 5898 1398 BJP 36 Pandua 11494 5228 BJP 37 Patharpratima 5086 4873 TMC 38 Raghunathganj 46100 40555 TMC 39 Raidighi 7538 5957 TMC 40 Raina 11284 834 BJP 41 Rajarhat New Town 24132 316 BJP 42 Raninagar 17140 2701 INC 43 Ratua 35573 32562 TMC 44 Samserganj 74775 7587 TMC 45 Satgachhia 8785 401 BJP 46 Sitai 20213 2721 TMC 47 Sreerampur 10445 8685 BJP 48 Suti 37965 12357 TMC 49 Uluberia Uttar 6193 4177 BJP Of these 49 seats, the BJP won 26, the TMC secured 21, and the INC won 2. The results also reflect a broader electoral shift. Forty-eight of these constituencies had been held by the TMC in the 2021 assembly elections, with only one, Darjeeling, held by the BJP. In 2026, the BJP retained Darjeeling and won 25 seats previously held by the TMC, while the INC’s two victories also came in constituencies that had been with the TMC. Overall, 27 of the 49 seats witnessed an anti-incumbency swing. Geographically, these constituencies are spread across 15 districts. Murshidabad, a Muslim-majority district according to the 2011 census, accounts for eight of them, followed by North 24 Parganas with six, and South 24 Parganas and Purba Bardhaman with five each. Hooghly has four such seats, while Howrah, Nadia, Malda and Dakshin Dinajpur have three each. Uttar Dinajpur and Paschim Bardhaman account for two each, and Darjeeling, Kolkata North, Paschim Medinipur and Coochbehar have one each. Taken together, the data shows that in 49 constituencies, the pool of voters under adjudication exceeded the margin that decided the winner, linking unresolved voter roll disputes directly to electoral outcomes in a significant number of seats.

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