West Bengal state assembly election, 2011

West Bengal state general election, 2011

2006 ← 18 April 2011 (2011-04-18) — 10 May 2011 (2011-05-10) → 2016

294 seats   Majority party Minority party   Leader Mamata Banerjee Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Party AITMC CPI(M) Alliance AITMC - INC Left Front (West Bengal) Leader since 1 January 1998 6 November 2000 Leader's seat Did not stand Jadavpur (Lost)1 Last election 30 seats, 10.2% 233 seats, 79.2% Seats before 30 233 Seats won 227 62 Seats after 227, 77.2% 62, 21.0% Seat change 196 171

Assembly election results map (by district). Bright green denotes the districts won by Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, and Red denotes those won by the CPI(M).

Chief Minister before election Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee CPI(M) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Trinamool Congress

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
CPI(M)

Mamata Banerjee
Trinamool Congress

A legislative assembly election was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the state of West Bengal in India. The Trinamool Congress won an absolute majority of seats. Notably, incumbent Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lost his Jadavpur seat to Trinamool's Manish Gupta by just under 17,000 votes.

The election also marked the defeat of the longest-serving democratically elected Communist government in the world, ending the 34-year rule of the Left Front government, a fact that was noted by the international media.

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