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Queen's was

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Queen's Way is a road in Central Kolkata joining Cathedral Road to east and Hospital Road to west. The road has Brigade in its left, and Victoria Memorial in its right and possess greenery on its both side.

Queen's Way
Traditional horse carriage in the road
Country India
StateWest Bengal
LocationKolkata
TypeCity road
Popular places

Naxal period

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Naxal period
1967–1975
LocationWest Bengal
Key eventsNaxal movement

Mahalaya

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Mahalaya is a religiously significant day in Hinduism which marks the end of Pitri Paksha and the beginning of Devi paksha.

2026 WB Analysis

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After the results were out, various news channels, analysts, and other media outlets published detailed analyses, data, and statistical background information.

  • BJP got about 80% of the votes in postal ballots. Mainly active and retired government employees cast vote in postal ballots, and there were protests and agitation against the outgoing government over the matters of DA and pay commission.[1]
  • Upon analysis, it was found that BJP won vast majority seats with high female turnout exceeding that of men.[2] Female voters were considered one of the vote bases of Mamata Banerjee, which she lost in the election according to analysts.[3] Women's safety was a chief issue of the election for various erstwhile incidents, most notably the RG Kar rape case which saw one of the biggest civil protest in the TMC rule.[4] Beside that, BJP promised to double the amount of then existing female welfare scheme in its manifesto.[5]
  • Newly enacted booths in high rises and housing complexes in urban areas were swept by the BJP.[6] According to statistical analysis, BJP got 64% vote in 38 such booths of Kolkata. Residents of such residencies reported dissatisfaction over municipal services and post poll violence they faced in 2024 parliamentary election.[7]
  • BJP swept the SC-ST reserved seats in the state, with boosting further in its strongholds of SC-ST dominated regions like North Bengal, Jungalmahal and Matua Belt. Out of 68 SC reserved seats, BJP won 51, exactly 75%, while the rest going to TMC. Whereas BJP in a clean sweep won all the 16 ST reserved seats.[8][9]
  • In many urban seats left votes swinged to BJP in comparison to the previous election. Major examples were seats like Bhabanipur, Jadavpur, Dum Dum Uttar, Dum Dum, Uttarpara. All these seats were swinged from TMC to BJP. Many CPM workers admitted voting BJP to remove TMC from power. Since 2019, already the most of the vote share of left shifted to BJP, decreasing it from 30% to just 8%.[10][11][12]
  • Another one of TMC's strong support base, the muslim votes also got split between it and other parties like INC, CPM, ISF, JUP.[13] In three Muslim dominated districts of Malda, Murshidabad and Uttar Dinajpur, BJP was assessed to win 10 additional seats due to muslim vote split between other parties.[14] In Murshidabad district, results of muslim majority seats like Jangipur, Beldanga, Kandi, Nabagram & Kharagram indicate the splitting of muslim votes among other parties while hindu consolidation gives BJP a plurality to win.[15][16] All the seats won by parties other than BJP and TMC, were muslim majority seats. Overall, Left-Congress dented TMC's muslim votes, but their vote share remained constant with respect to the last election, suggesting a further hindu consolidation from these parties in favour of BJP.[17]
Seats shifted in West Bengal

After the results were out, various news channels, analysts and other media outlets published detailed analysis, data, and statistical backgrounds for the loss of incumbent TMC government in front of BJP and the overall result scenario.[18] The most important ones are given below:

Administrative failure

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The whole tenure of the TMC government was highly alleged of corruption and misrule. The most notably the SSC recruitment scam, which was a legally proven corruption by the Mamata government, SSC itself admitted the corruption in the court.[19] The RG Kar rape case and overall perception of female security severely effected the election result all over the Bengal, but especially in Kolkata metropolis and female voters.[20]

SIR deleted over 9 million voter entries. About 6 million were ASDD entries (Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate) and about 3 million were removed upon adjudication by judiciary due to submitting insufficient documents. Since long ago, the TMC had been accused and had incidents for conserving and using these ASDD voter entries to alter election result via electoral malpractice by the polling officers, police and party cadres.

Hindu consolidation and fragmented muslim votes

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The detailed boothwise leads from the election result clearly shows an unprecedented and boosted hindu consolidation for the BJP. The consolidation happend overall among the hindus irrespective of the castelines, with BJP sweeping the SC, ST seats.[21] Due to overall high anti incumbancy against the TMC government, muslim votes split in districts like Murshidabad. Left, Congress and JUP won their seats only in Muslim dominated seats. They also gained muslim votes from TMC in these regions, eventually resulting a record 8 seats for BJP in Murshidabad district.[14] P.[22][23]

Reaction

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BJP reaction: Samik Bhattacharya, Suvendu remarks, Fish and Jhalmuri. Rupa Ganguly cry. Shyamaprasad. Kalighat. Modi in Delhi in Bengali attire.

MPs Kakoli Ghosh dastidar, Sukhendu Sekhar roy.

Spokesperson, Riju Dutta, Kohinoor, Arup Chakraborty, Santanu Sen, Biswajit Deb.

Aftermath

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  • Mamata criticised on refusal to resign.
  • First decisions of cabinet: Annapurna Bhandar and Yoboshokti, Chingrighata metro, rail and national Highway land, land to bsf, RG Kar file and suspension, Fish in Maa canteen. Mosque removed from Kolkata Airport. Namaz banned on road. 2021 post poll violence files open and compensation.
  • Violence: BJP killed in howrah, Chandranath PA killed, howrah bombing, TMC killed, low violence compared to, TMC party offices destroy, BJP MLAs help. Samik Bhattacharya tells to suspend. Tatkal BJP. Arup Chakraborty agree they didn't same. TMC MLA Bishnupur Dilip give humki.
  • Left Congress get back party offices.
  • Bengal treasury flood with revenue.
  • Bangladeshi illegal immigrants gather at hakimpur just like during SIR, tell TMC made them documents.
  • Actions and protests against TMC. Sujit Bose arrested. Howrah and Bijpur innerwear parade. TMC councilor and other local leaders arrested for extortion, violence and corruption. Suvendu attacker in Cooch Behar. Bishnupur MLA TMC arrested from puri after humki. Sona Pappu. Illegal toll booths destroyed. Public protest against various TMC leaders. Protest against Jahangir. Crores seized from Baduria Pat khet. TMC leaders' palaces, underground and undercover houses come at focus.

References

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  2. Aggarwal, Piyush (2026-05-12). "Women voted more than men in most Bengal seats. BJP won many of them". India Today. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  3. "Why Women Voters Sided With BJP And Not Bengal's 'Daughter' Mamata Banerjee". www.ndtv.com. Archived from the original on 2026-05-09. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  4. Sanyal, Shounak (2026-05-04). "Did Mamata lose Bengal election on August 9, 2024, itself?". India Today. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  5. "Welfare vs welfare: How BJP trumped Mamata's 'pro-woman' appeal". The Times of India. 2026-05-05. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  6. Ananda, A. B. P. (2026-05-10). "আবাসনের ভোটেও ধাক্কা তৃণমূলের, আরবানা-সাউথ সিটি-সিলভার স্প্রিং...হাইরাইজগুলিতে বাজিমাত বিজেপি-র". ABP Ananda (in Bengali). Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  7. রায়, শ্যামগোপাল; ভট্টাচার্য্য, দেবার্ঘ্য (2026-05-11). "শহরের আবাসনেও গেরুয়া ঝড়, ঢেলে পদ্মে ভোট বাসিন্দাদের". Eisamay Online (in Bengali). Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  8. Journal, The CSR (2026-05-06). "BJP Achieves Significant Success in SC and ST Seats Across West Bengal and Assam". The CSR Journal. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
  9. "SC, ST voters played pivotal role in BJP's Bengal and Assam victories". The Times of India. 2026-05-07. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
  10. Sanyal, Shounak (2026-05-10). "Ebar Ram, pore Bam: How Left voters quietly helped BJP win Bengal election". India Today. Retrieved 2026-05-28.
  11. Rajgovind, Anjali (2026-05-11). "Did Left voters help BJP win in Bengal?: Was it anti-TMC anger or a CPI(M) strategy?". Bhaskar English. Retrieved 2026-05-28.
  12. Roy, Shubhankar. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2026: "আগে রাম, পরে বাম!" সিপিএম-এর ভোট স্যুইং খেয়ে বিজেপিতে, আবাসনগুলিতেও পদ্ম ঝড়". Asianet News Bangla (in Bengali). Retrieved 2026-05-28.
  13. Chatterjee, Shiv Sahay Singh & Shrabana (2026-05-04). "West Bengal election results: Split in Muslim votes spells doom for Trinamool Congress". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2026-05-30.
  14. 1 2 "Split in Muslim vote across three minority-dominated Bengal districts boosts BJP victory". Telegraph India. 5 May 2026.
  15. Gupta, Moushumi Das (2026-05-05). "How Muslims of Bengal withdrew from Mamata, this election". ThePrint. Archived from the original on 2026-05-06. Retrieved 2026-05-30.
  16. Bhardwaj, Amit (2026-05-11). "Solid Hindu vote, fractured Muslim vote; did Bengal just invert India's electoral calculus?". India Today. Retrieved 2026-05-30.
  17. Bhardwaj, Amit (2026-05-09). "TMC lost Bengal and the Muslim vote. But who gained from it?". India Today. Retrieved 2026-05-30.
  18. "পশ্চিমবঙ্গে যে পাঁচ কারণে তৃণমূল কংগ্রেসের নির্বাচনী বিপর্যয়". BBC News বাংলা (in Bengali). 2026-05-05. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
  19. Chattopadhyay, Suhrid Sankar (2025-04-05). "West Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam: Trinamool Government Hit as Supreme Court Upholds HC Verdict". Frontline. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
  20. Sanyal, Shounak (2026-05-04). "Did Mamata lose Bengal election on August 9, 2024, itself?". India Today. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
  21. "Bengal's Silent Shift: How RSS Engineered Hindu Consolidation Beyond Caste & Changed The Game". 5 May 2026.
  22. Chatterjee, Shiv Sahay Singh & Shrabana (2026-05-04). "West Bengal election results: Split in Muslim votes spells doom for Trinamool Congress". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
  23. Bhardwaj, Amit (2026-05-11). "Solid Hindu vote, fractured Muslim vote; did Bengal just invert India's electoral calculus?". India Today. Retrieved 2026-05-14.