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	! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"\|Chief Minister		! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"\|[[Chief Minister of West Bengal\|Chief Minister]]
	! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"\|Winning Party/Coalition		! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"\|Winning Party/Coalition
			!Opposition leader
			!Political Party
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	\|[[Indian National Congress]]		\|[[Indian National Congress]]
			\|[[Jyoti Basu]]
			\|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)\|CPI]]
	\|----		\|----
	\|1957		\|1957
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	\|[[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]		\|[[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
	\|[[Indian National Congress]]		\|[[Indian National Congress]]
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
	\|1962		\|1962
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	\|[[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]		\|[[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]
	\|[[Indian National Congress]]		\|[[Indian National Congress]]
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
	\|1967		\|1967
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	[[Prafulla Chandra Ghosh]] of INC, a part of Progressive <br />Democratic Front led by INC from Nov. 1967-1968.		[[Prafulla Chandra Ghosh]] of INC, a part of Progressive <br />Democratic Front led by INC from Nov. 1967-1968.
	\|No party/coalition won a majority		\|No party/coalition won a majority
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
	\|1969		\|1969
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	\|[[Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee]]		\|[[Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee]]
	\|No party/coalition won a majority		\|No party/coalition won a majority
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
	\|1971		\|1971
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	\|No party/coalition won a majority		\|No party/coalition won a majority
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
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	\|[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]		\|[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]
	\|[[Indian National Congress]]		\|[[Indian National Congress]]
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
	\|1977		\|1977
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	\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]		\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
	\|1982		\|1982
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	\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]		\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
	\|1987		\|1987
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	\|[[Jyoti Basu]]		\|[[Jyoti Basu]]
	\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]		\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
	\|1991		\|1991
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	\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]		\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
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	\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]		\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]
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	\|[[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]		\|[[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
	\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]		\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]
			\|
			\|
	\|----		\|----
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	\|[[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]		\|[[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
	\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]		\|[[Left Front (West Bengal)\|Left Front]]
			\|[[Partha Chatterjee (politician)\|Partha Chatterjee]]
			\|[[Trinamool Congress]]
	\|----		\|----
	\|2011		\|2011
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	\|[[Mamata Banerjee]]		\|[[Mamata Banerjee]]
	\|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]		\|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
			\|
			\|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)\|CPI]]
	\|----		\|----
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	\|[[Mamata Banerjee]]		\|[[Mamata Banerjee]]
	\| [[All India Trinamool Congress]]		\| [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
			\|[[Abdul Mannan (West Bengal politician)\|Abdul Mannan]]
			\|[[Indian National Congress]]
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	\| [[All India Trinamool Congress]]		\| [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
			\|[[Suvendu Adhikari]]
			\|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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			\|[[Government of West Bengal\|18th Assembly]]
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			\|[[Suvendu Adhikari]]
			\|[[Bharatiya Janata Party – West Bengal\|Bharatiya Janata Party]]
			\|[[Ritabrata Banerjee]]
			\|[[Trinamool Congress\|Trinamool Congress (Rebel)]]
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Elections in [[West Bengal]], a state in [[India]] are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The Assembly of West Bengal creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India. In addition, the state legislature may be dismissed by the Parliament according to Article 356 of the Indian Constitution and President's rule may be imposed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.electioncommissionindia.in/2016/04/west-bengal-election-results.html|title=West Bengal Election Results|work=Election Commission India}}</ref>

==Lok Sabha elections==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Lok Sabha
! Election Year
! colspan="2"|1st Party
! colspan="2"|2nd Party
! colspan="2"|3rd Party
! colspan="2"|4th Party
! Others
! Total Seats
|-
|[[1st Lok Sabha]]
|[[1951-52 Indian general election|1951-52]]
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 24
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 5'''
|style="background-color:{{Bharatiya Jana Sangh/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Bharatiya Jan Sangh|BJS]] 2'''
|style="background-color: {{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 2
|[[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha|HMS]] 1
|34
|-
|[[2nd Lok Sabha]]
|[[1957 Indian general election|1957]]
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 23
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 6'''
|style="background-color:{{Marxist Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Marxist Forward Bloc|MFB]] 2'''
|style="background-color: {{Praja Socialist Party/meta/color}}"|
|[[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] 2
|[[Independent (politician)|Ind]] 3
|36
|-
|[[3rd Lok Sabha]]
|[[1962 Indian general election|1962]]
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 22
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 9'''
|style="background-color:{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 1'''
|style="background-color: {{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 1
|[[Lok Sewak Sangh|LSS]] 1, [[Independent (politician)|Ind]] 2
|36
|-
|[[4th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1967 Indian general election|1967]]
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 14
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 5'''
|style="background-color: {{Bangla Congress/meta/color}}"|
|[[Bangla Congress|BAC]] 5
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 5'''
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 2, [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] 1, [[Samyukta Socialist Party|SSP]] 1, [[Independent (politician)|Ind]] 7
|40
|-
|[[5th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1971 Indian general election|1971]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 20'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 13
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3'''
|style="background-color:{{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 1'''
|[[Bangla Congress|BAC]] 1, [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] 1, [[Independent (politician)|Ind]] 1
|40
|-
|[[6th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1977 Indian general election|1977]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 17'''
|style="background-color:{{Bharatiya Lok Dal/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Bharatiya Lok Dal|BLD]] 15'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 3
|style="background-color:{{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 3'''
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 3, [[Independent (politician)|Ind]] 1
|42
|-
|[[7th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1980 Indian general election|1980]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 28'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 4
|style="background-color:{{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 4'''
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3'''
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 3
|42
|-
|[[8th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1984 Indian general election|1984]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 18'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 16
|style="background-color:{{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 3'''
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3'''
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 2
|42
|-
|[[9th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1989 Indian general election|1989]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 27'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 4
|style="background-color:{{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 4'''
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3'''
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 3, [[Gorkha National Liberation Front|GNLF]] 1
|42
|-
|[[10th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1991 Indian general election|1991]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 27'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 5
|style="background-color:{{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 4'''
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3'''
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 3
|42
|-
|[[11th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1996 Indian general election|1996]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 23'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 9
|style="background-color:{{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 4'''
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3'''
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 3
|42
|-
|[[12th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1998 Indian general election|1998]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 24'''
|style="background-color:{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] 7
|style="background-color:{{Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist P (India)|RSP]] 4'''
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3'''
|'''[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 2''', [[Indian National Congress|INC]] 1, [[BJP]] 1
|42
|-
|[[13th Lok Sabha]]
|[[1999 Indian general election|1999]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 21'''
|style="background-color:{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] 8
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 3
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 3, [[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 2''', [[BJP]] 2
|42
|-
|[[14th Lok Sabha]]
|[[2004 Indian general election|2004]]
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 26'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 6
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 3
|style="background-color:{{All India Forward Bloc/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 3
|'''[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 3''', [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] 1
|42
|-
|[[15th Lok Sabha]]
|[[Indian general election in West Bengal, 2009|2009]]
|style="background-color:{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] 19'''
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 9
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 6'''
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
|[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 2
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]] 2, [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|RSP]] 2, [[BJP]] 1, [[Independent (politician)|Ind]] 1
|42
|-
|[[16th Lok Sabha]]
|[[2014 Indian general election in West Bengal|2014]]
|style="background-color:{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] 34'''
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 4
|style="background-color: {{BJP/meta/color}}"|
|[[BJP]] 2
|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] 2
|
|42
|-
|[[17th Lok Sabha]]
|[[2019 Indian general election in West Bengal|2019]]
|style="background-color:{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
|'''[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] 22'''
|style="background-color: {{BJP/meta/color}}"|
|[[BJP]] 18
|style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}"|
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]] 2
|colspan="2"|
|
|42
|-
|}

*
*
* Results, post-1998, in text format .
* 1999 : Total Seats : 42. Left Front : 28 (CPM 21, CPI 3, RSP 3, AIFB 2), Trinamool (AITC) + BJP : (8+2) = 10, Congress 3 .
* 2004 (14-th Lok Sabha) : LF : 35/42 (CPM 26, CPI 3, RSP 3, Forward Block 3), [Congress 6 + AITC 1], BJP - zero.
* 2009 : AITC + Congress : 19+6 = 25/42, CPM 9, CPI 2, BJP - 1.
* 2014 : AITC : 34/42, Congress : 4, BJP 2, CPM 2.
* 2019 : AITC : 22, BJP : 18, INC : 2, CPM - zero.

==Assembly elections==

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="font-size: x-big; font-family: verdana"
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Year
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Election
| style="width:4px" |
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Chief Minister
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white"|Winning Party/Coalition
|----
|1952
|[[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|1st Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|----
|1957
|[[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|2nd Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|----
|1962
|[[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|3rd Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|[[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|----
|1967
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|4th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: grey |
|[[Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee]] of Bangla Congress, a part of <br />United Front till Nov. 1967.
[[Prafulla Chandra Ghosh]] of INC, a part of Progressive <br />Democratic Front led by INC from Nov. 1967-1968.
|No party/coalition won a majority
|----
|1969
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|5th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: grey |
|[[Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee]]
|No party/coalition won a majority
|----
|1971
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|6th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: grey |
|[[Ajoy Mukherjee]] and later
[[Prafulla Chandra Ghosh]]
|No party/coalition won a majority
|----
|1972
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|7th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|----
|1977
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|8th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{CPI(M)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jyoti Basu]]
|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]
|----
|1982
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|9th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{CPI(M)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jyoti Basu]]
|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]
|----
|1987
|{{nowrap|[[1987 West Bengal state assembly election|10th Assembly]]}}
! style="background-color: {{CPI(M)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jyoti Basu]]
|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]
|----
|1991
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|11th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{CPI(M)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jyoti Basu]]
|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]
|----
|1996
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|12th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{CPI(M)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jyoti Basu]]
|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]
|----
|2001
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|13th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{CPI(M)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]
|----
|2006
|[[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|14th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: {{CPI(M)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]
|----
|2011
|[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|15th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: green" |
|[[Mamata Banerjee]]
|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|----
|2016
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|16th Assembly]]
! style="background-color: green" |
|[[Mamata Banerjee]]
| [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|----
|2021
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|17th Assembly]]
| style="background-color: green" |
|[[Mamata Banerjee]]
| [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{West Bengal elections}}
{{Indian elections}}

[[Category:Elections in West Bengal| ]]

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