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West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: An Analysis
Onkar Singh
Global Corporate Citizenship, Accenture, Bangalore, India. Email: os2137@caa.columbia.edu | ORCID: 0000-0002-8050-0501
Journal of Policy & Governance, 01(01) (August 2021), 69-121. https://doi.org/10.33002/jpg010107
Accepted: 05 August 2021
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West Bengal Assembly election was one of the most keenly watched assembly elections in India in 2021. One of the reasons for this interest was the unexpected rise of the Bhartiya Janata Party in a state mostly known for its contests between the Left parties, the Indian National Congress, and the All-India Trinamool Congress. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) had only 3 seats in the last assembly election of 2016, whereas the ruling All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) party had 212 seats. The BJP was never a major player in the state except during the last parliamentary election (2019) when BJP bagged 18 out of the 42 parliamentary seats. The analysis presented in this paper analyzes the constituency-wise figures for each of the 294 constituencies spread over 19 districts of the state of West Bengal in India. The TMC emerged victorious with 48% of the total popular votes, while the opposition BJP got 39% of the popular votes. Also, TMC won 213 (73% of total seats), whereas the BJP came to a distant second with 77 (26%) seats, even though it raised its stock significantly in the West Bengal Assembly from its 2016 tally of a meager 3 seats. After the West Bengal 2021 election results, Mamata Banerjee emerged as one of the main challengers of BJP at the national arena of Indian politics. This paper will benefit and help anyone interested in Indian political analysis and would also provide key insights for the political analysts and the political parties interested in a seat-by-seat deep dive. The analysis was done with the help of Microsoft Excel and R Software.
Keywords: Assembly election; Political parties; Election analysis; Vote share; India
Singh, O. (2021). West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: An Analysis. Journal of Policy & Governance, 01(01), 69-121. https://doi.org/10.33002/jpg010107
Singh, O. (2021). West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: An Analysis. Journal of Policy & Governance, 01(01): 69-121. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/jpg010107
Singh, Onkar. 2021. “West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: An Analysis”. Journal of Policy & Governance, 01(01): 69-121. https://doi.org/10.33002/jpg010107
Singh O. West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: An Analysis. Journal of Policy & Governance, 2021, 01(01), 69-121. https://doi.org/10.33002/jpg010107
Singh, Onkar. 2021. “West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: An Analysis”. Journal of Policy & Governance, 01(01): 69-121. https://doi.org/10.33002/jpg010107
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