2024 Indian general election in West Bengal explained

Country:	India
Type:	Parliamentary
Previous Election:	2019 Indian general election in West Bengal
Previous Year:	2019
Election Date:	19 April 2024 to 1 June 2024
Next Year:	2029
Seats For Election:	All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout:	79.29% (2.47 pp)
Ongoing:	no
Next Election:	2029 Indian general election in West Bengal
Outgoing Members:	List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha#West Bengal
Elected Members:	List of members of the 18th Lok Sabha#West Bengal
Opinion Polls:	2024 Indian general election in West Bengal#Opinion polls
Leader1:	Mamata Banerjee
Party1:	Trinamool Congress
Leaders Seat1:	Did not contest
Leader Since1:	1998
Last Election1:	43.3%, 22 seats
Seats1:	29
Popular Vote1:	27,564,561
Percentage1:	45.76%
Leader2:	Sukanta Majumdar
Party2:	Bharatiya Janata Party
Leaders Seat2:	Balurghat
Leader Since2:	2021
Last Election2:	40.7%, 18 seats
Popular Vote2:	23,327,349
Percentage2:	38.73%
Party4:	Indian National Congress
Leader4:	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Leaders Seat4:	Baharampur (Lost)
Leader Since4:	2020
Last Election4:	5.67%, 2 seats
Popular Vote4:	2,818,728
Percentage4:	4.68%
Alliance4:	LF+INC
Leader5:	Mohammed Salim
Party5:	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Leaders Seat5:	Murshidabad (Lost)
Leader Since5:	2022
Last Election5:	6.33%, 0 seats
Popular Vote5:	3,416,941
Percentage5:	5.67%
Alliance5:	LF+INC
Prime Minister
Posttitle:	Prime Minister after election
Before Election:	Narendra Modi
Before Party:	BJP
After Election:	Narendra Modi
After Party:	BJP
Seat Change1:	7
Seats2:	12
Seat Change2:	6
Seats5:	0
Seat Change5:	-
Seats4:	1
Seat Change4:	1

The 2024 Indian general election was held in West Bengal in seven phases between 19 April and 1 June 2024 to elect 42 members of the 18th Lok Sabha.^{[1] [2]} The result of the election was announced on 4 June 2024.

The by-elections for Bhagabangola and Baranagar in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly was also scheduled with the general election and took place on 7 May and 1 June respectively.^[3]

West Bengal, along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were the only states where the 2024 Indian general election was held in all 7 phases.

Election schedule

On 16 March 2024, the Election Commission of India announced the schedule of the 2024 Indian general election, with West Bengal scheduled to vote during all the 7 phases starting from 19 April and concluding on 1 June. ^{[4] [5]}

Poll event	Phase
	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
Notification Date	20 March	28 March	12 April	18 April	26 April	29 April	7 May
Last Date for filing nomination	27 March	4 April	19 April	25 April	3 May	6 May	14 May
Scrutiny of nomination	28 March	5 April	20 April	26 April	4 May	7 May	15 May
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	30 March	8 April	22 April	29 April	6 May	9 May	17 May
Date of poll	19 April	26 April	7 May	13 May	20 May	25 May	1 June
Date of counting of votes/Result	4 June 2024
No. of constituencies	3	3	4	8	7	8	9

Parties and alliances

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Mohammed Salim	23
	Indian National Congress			Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	12
	Revolutionary Socialist Party			Tapan Hor	3
	Communist Party of India			Swapan Banerjee	2
	All India Forward Bloc			Naren Chatterjee	2
	Total				42

Others

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)			Provash Ghosh	42
	Indian Secular Front			Nawsad Siddique	17
	Bahujan Samaj Party			Manoj Hawladar	5
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen			-	4
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation			Dipankar Bhattacharya	1

Candidates

Constituency
		AITC			BJP			SDA
1	Cooch Behar (SC)		Jagadish Chandra Basunia		Nisith Pramanik		Nitish Chandra Roy
2	Alipurduars (ST)		Prakash Chik Baraik		Manoj Tigga		Mili Oraon
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)		Nirmal Chandra Roy		Jayanta Kumar Roy		Debraj Barman
4	Darjeeling		Gopal Lama		Raju Bista		Munish Tamang
5	Raiganj		Krishna Kalyani		Kartick Paul		Ali Imran Ramz (Victor)
6	Balurghat		Biplab Mitra		Sukanta Majumdar		Jaydeb Siddhanta
7	Maldaha Uttar		Prasun Banerjee		Khagen Murmu		Mostaque Alam
8	Maldaha Dakshin		Shahnawaz Ali Raihan		Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury		Isha Khan Choudhury
9	Jangipur		Khalilur Rahaman		Dhananjay Ghosh		Mortaza Hossain Bokul
10	Baharampur		Yusuf Pathan		Nirmal Kumar Saha		Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
11	Murshidabad		Abu Taher Khan		Gouri Shankar Ghosh		Mohammed Salim
12	Krishnanagar		Mahua Moitra		Amrita Roy		S. M. Saadi
13	Ranaghat (SC)		Mukut Mani Adhikari		Jagannath Sarkar		Alokesh Das
14	Bongaon (SC)		Biswajit Das		Shantanu Thakur		Pradip Biswas
15	Barrackpore		Partha Bhowmick		Arjun Singh		Debdut Ghosh
16	Dum Dum		Saugata Roy		Shilbhadra Dutta		Sujan Chakraborty
17	Barasat		Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar		Swapan Majumder		Sanjib Chatterjee
18	Basirhat		Haji Nurul Islam		Rekha Patra		Nirapada Sardar
19	Jaynagar (SC)		Pratima Mondal		Ashok Kandari		Samarendra Nath Mandal
20	Mathurapur (SC)		Bapi Halder		Ashok Purkait		Sarat Chandra Haldar
21	Diamond Harbour		Abhishek Banerjee		Abhijit Das (Bobby)		Pratikur Rahaman
22	Jadavpur		Saayoni Ghosh		Anirban Ganguly		Srijan Bhattacharyya
23	Kolkata Dakshin		Mala Roy		Debasree Chaudhuri		Saira Shah Halim
24	Kolkata Uttar		Sudip Bandyopadhyay		Tapas Roy		Pradip Bhattacharya
25	Howrah		Prasun Banerjee		Rathin Chakraborty		Sabyasachi Chatterjee
26	Uluberia		Sajda Ahmed		Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury		Azahar Mallick
27	Serampore		Kalyan Banerjee		Kabir Sankar Bose		Dipsita Dhar
28	Hooghly		Rachna Banerjee		Locket Chatterjee		Monodip Ghosh
29	Arambagh (SC)		Mitali Bag		Arup Kanti Digar		Biplab Kumar Moitra
30	Tamluk		Debangshu Bhattacharya		Abhijit Gangopadhyay		Sayan Banerjee
31	Kanthi		Uttam Barik		Soumendu Adhikari		Urbashi Bhattacharya
32	Ghatal		Deepak Adhikari (Dev)		Hiran Chatterjee		Tapan Ganguly
33	Jhargram (ST)		Kalipada Soren		Pranat Tudu		Sonamoni Murmu (Tudu)
34	Medinipur		June Malia		Agnimitra Paul		Biplab Bhatta
35	Purulia		Santiram Mahato		Jyotirmay Singh Mahato		Nepal Mahato
36	Bankura		Arup Chakraborty		Subhas Sarkar		Nilanjan Dasgupta
37	Bishnupur (SC)		Sujata Mondal		Saumitra Khan		Shital Kaibartya
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)		Sharmila Sarkar		Ashim Kumar Sarkar		Nirav Kha
39	Bardhaman–Durgapur		Kirti Azad		Dilip Ghosh		Sukriti Ghosal
40	Asansol		Shatrughan Sinha		S. S. Ahluwalia		Jahanara Khan
41	Bolpur (SC)		Asit Kumar Mal		Priya Saha		Shyamali Pradhan
42	Birbhum		Satabdi Roy		Debtanu Bhattacharya		Milton Rashid

Surveys and polls

Exit polls

Voter turnout

Phase wise

Phase	Poll Date	Constituencies^[6]	Voter Turnout (%)
I	19 April 2024	Cooch Behar, Alipurduars, Jalpaiguri	81.91%
II	26 April 2024	Darjeeling, Raiganj, Balurghat	76.58%
III	7 May 2024	Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, Murshidabad	77.53%
IV	13 May 2024	Baharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman Purba, Bardhaman–Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur, Birbhum	80.22%
V	20 May 2024	Bongaon, Barrackpore, Howrah, Uluberia, Serampore, Hooghly, Arambagh	78.45%
VI	25 May 2024	Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura, Bishnupur	82.71%
VII	1 June 2024	Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar	69.89%
Total			79.29%

Constituency wise

Constituency		Poll Date	Turnout	Swing
1	Cooch Behar (SC)	19 April 2024	82.16%	1.92
2	Alipurduars (ST)		79.76%	4.03
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)		83.66%	2.85
4	Darjeeling	26 April 2024	74.76%	4.04
5	Raiganj		76.18%	3.64
6	Balurghat		79.09%	4.60
7	Maldaha Uttar	7 May 2024	76.03%	1.20
8	Maldaha Dakshin		76.69%	4.55
9	Jangipur		75.72%	5.00
10	Baharampur	13 May 2024	77.54%	1.87
11	Murshidabad	7 May 2024	81.52%	2.77
12	Krishnanagar	13 May 2024	80.65%	3.10
13	Ranaghat (SC)		81.87%	2.39
14	Bangaon (SC)	20 May 2024	81.04%	1.60
15	Barrackpore		75.41%	1.50
16	Dum Dum	1 June 2024	73.81%	2.79
17	Barasat		80.17%	1.09
18	Basirhat		84.31%	1.12
19	Jaynagar (SC)		80.08%	2.21
20	Mathurapur (SC)		82.02%	2.84
21	Diamond Harbour		81.04%	0.94
22	Jadavpur		76.68%	2.41
23	Kolkata Dakshin		66.95%	2.87
24	Kolkata Uttar		63.59%	2.16
25	Howrah	20 May 2024	71.73%	-3.10
26	Uluberia		79.78%	-1.40
27	Srerampur		76.44%	-2.10
28	Hooghly		81.38%	-1.14
29	Arambagh (SC)		82.62%	-0.82
30	Tamluk	25 May 2024	84.79%	0.59
31	Kanthi		84.77%	0.52
32	Ghatal		82.17%	0.23
33	Jhargram (ST)		83.47%	1.95
34	Medinipur		81.56%	2.44
35	Purulia		78.39%	3.71
36	Bankura		80.75%	2.22
37	Bishnupur (SC)		85.91%	1.04
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)	13 May 2024	82.85%	1.66
39	Bardhaman–Durgapur		80.72%	1.56
40	Asansol		73.27%	3.10
41	Bolpur (SC)		82.66%	3.08
42	Birbhum		81.91%	3.09

Results

Results by party or alliance

29	12	1
AITC	BJP	INC

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	AITC			2,75,65,561	45.76%	2.49%	42	29	7
	NDA		BJP	2,33,27,349	38.73%	1.52%	42	12	6
LF+INC		CPI(M)	34,16,941	5.67%	0.61%	23	0
	INC	28,18,728	4.68%	0.93%	12	1	1
	AIFB	1,43,946	0.24%	0.17%	2	0
	RSP	1,34,039	0.22%	0.17%	3	0
	CPI	1,31,744	0.22%	0.14%	2	0
Total			11.03%		42
	Others			20,76,281	3.45%
	NOTA			5,22,724	0.87%
Total					100%	-		42	-

Constituency wise party or alliance votes

	Constituency	TMC votes	NDA votes	LF votes	INC votes	Win Margin
1	Cooch Behar	788,375	749,125	30,267	10,679	39,250
2	Alipurduars	619,867	695,314	27,427	-	75,447
3	Jalpaiguri	679,875	766,568	74,092	-	86,693
4	Darjeeling	500,806	679,331	-	83,374	178,525
5	Raiganj	492,700	560,897	-	263,273	68,197
6	Balurghat	564,610	574,996	54,217	-	10,386
7	Maldaha Uttar	449,315	527,023	-	384,764	77,708
8	Maldaha Dakshin	301,026	444,027	-	572,395	128,368
9	Jangipur	544,427	340,814	-	427,790	116,637
10	Baharampur	524,516	371,885	-	439,494	85,022
11	Murshidabad	682,442	292,031	518,227	-	164,215
12	Krishnanagar	628,789	572,084	180,201	-	56,705
13	Ranaghat	595,497	782,396	-	123,810	186,899
14	Bangaon	645,812	719,505	-	65,176	73,693
15	Barrackpore	520,231	455,793	109,564	-	64,438
16	Dum Dum	528,579	457,919	240,784	-	70,660
17	Barasat	692,010	577,821	100,000		114,189
18	Basirhat	803,762	470,215	77,899	-	333,547
19	Jaynagar	894,312	424,093	40,113	-	470,219
20	Mathurapur	755,731	554,674	61,100	-	201,057
21	Diamond Harbour	1,048,230	337,300	86,953	-	710,930
22	Jadavpur	717,899	459,698	258,712	-	258,201
23	Kolkata Dakshin	615,274	428,043	168,531	-	187,231
24	Kolkata Uttar	454,696	362,136	-	114,982	92,560
25	Howrah	626,493	457,051	152,005	-	169,442
26	Uluberia	724,622	505,949	-	78,589	505,949
27	Srerampore	673,970	499,140	239,146	-	174,830
28	Hooghly	702,744	625,891	139,919	-	76,853
29	Arambagh	712,587	706,188	92,502	-	6,399
30	Tamluk	687,851	765,584	85,389	-	77,733
31	Kanthi	715,431	763,195	-	31,122	47,764
32	Ghatal	837,990	655,122	74,908	-	182,868
33	Jhargram	743,478	569,430	77,302	-	174,048
34	Medinipur	702,192	675,001	57,785	-	27,191
35	Purulia	561,410	578,489	-	129,157	17,079
36	Bankura	641,813	609,035	105,359	-	32,778
37	Bishnupur	674,563	680,130	105,411		5,567
38	Bardhaman Purba	720,302	559,730	176,899	-	160,572
39	Bardhaman-Durgapur	720,667	582,686	153,829	-	137,981
40	Asansol	605,645	546,081	105,964		59,564
41	Bolpur	855,633	528,380	99,383		327,253
42	Birbhum	717,961	520,311	-	226,260	197,650

Results by constituency

Constituency		Turnout	Winner							Runner Up							Margin
			Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%	Votes	pp
1	Cooch Behar (SC)	82.16%			Jagadish Chandra Basunia	7,88,375	48.57%			Nisith Pramanik	7,49,125	46.16%	39,250	2.41%
2	Alipurduars (ST)	79.76%			Manoj Tigga	6,95,314	48.92%			Prakash Chik Baraik	6,19,867	43.61%	75,447	5.30%
3	Jalpaiguri (SC)	83.66%			Jayanta Kumar Roy	7,66,568	48.57%			Nirmal Chandra Roy	6,79,875	43.07%	86,693	5.50%
4	Darjeeling	74.76%			Raju Bista	6,79,331	51.18%			Gopal Lama	5,00,806	37.73%	1,78,525	13.45%
5	Raiganj	76.18%			Kartick Chandra Paul	5,60,897	40.99%			Krishna Kalyani	4,92,700	36.00%	68,197	4.99%
6	Balurghat	79.09%			Sukanta Majumder	5,74,996	46.47%			Biplab Mitra	5,64,610	45.63%	10,386	0.84%
7	Maldaha Uttar	76.03%			Khagen Murmu	5,27,023	37.18%			Prasun Banerjee	4,49,315	31.70%	77,708	5.48%
8	Maldaha Dakshin	76.69%			SDA	Isha Khan Choudhury	5,72,395	41.79%			Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury	4,44,027	32.42%	1,28,368	9.37%
9	Jangipur	75.72%			Khalilur Rahaman	5,44,427	39.75%			SDA	Murtoja Hossain Bokul	4,27,790	31.23%	1,16,637	8.52%
10	Baharampur	77.54%			Yusuf Pathan	5,24,516	37.88%			SDA	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	4,39,494	31.74%	85,022	6.14%
11	Murshidabad	81.52%			Abu Taher Khan	6,82,442	44.27%			SDA	Md. Salim	5,18,227	33.62%	1,64,215	10.65%
12	Krishnanagar	80.65%			Mahua Moitra	6,28,789	44.10%			Amrita Roy	5,72,084	40.13%	56,705	3.98%
13	Ranaghat (SC)	81.87%			Jagannath Sarkar	7,82,396	50.78%			Mukut Mani Adhikari	5,95,497	38.65%	1,86,899	12.13%
14	Bangaon (SC)	81.04%			Shantanu Thakur	7,19,505	48.19%			Biswajit Das	6,45,812	43.25%	73,693	4.94%
15	Barrackpore	75.41%			Partha Bhowmick	5,20,231	45.56%			Arjun Singh	4,55,793	39.92%	64,438	5.64%
16	Dum Dum	73.81%			Saugata Roy	5,28,579	41.95%			Silbhadra Datta	4,57,919	36.34%	70,660	5.61%
17	Barasat	80.17%			Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	6,92,010	45.15%			Swapan Majumder	5,77,821	37.70%	1,14,189	7.45%
18	Basirhat	84.31%			Haji Nurul Islam	8,03,762	52.76%			Rekha Patra	4,70,215	30.87%	333,547	21.89%
19	Jaynagar (SC)	80.08%			Pratima Mondal	8,94,312	60.32%			Ashok Kandari	4,24,093	28.60%	470,219	31.72%
20	Mathurapur (SC)	82.02%			Bapi Halder	7,55,731	50.52%			Ashok Purkait	5,54,674	37.08%	201,057	13.44%
21	Diamond Harbour	81.04%			Abhishek Banerjee	10,48,230	68.48%			Abhijit Das (Bobby)	3,37,300	22.03%	710,930	46.45%
22	Jadavpur	76.68%			Saayoni Ghosh	7,17,899	45.83%			Anirban Ganguly	4,59,698	29.35%	258,201	16.48%
23	Kolkata Dakshin	66.95%			Mala Roy	6,15,274	49.48%			Debasree Chaudhuri	4,28,043	34.42%	187,231	15.06%
24	Kolkata Uttar	63.59%			Sudip Bandyopadhyay	4,54,696	47.44%			Tapas Roy	3,62,136	37.78%	92,560	9.62%
25	Howrah	71.73%			Prasun Banerjee	6,26,493	49.26%			Rathin Chakraborty	4,57,051	35.94%	169,442	13.32%
26	Uluberia	79.78%			Sajda Ahmed	7,24,622	52.10%			Arun Uday Pal Chaudhary	5,05,949	36.38%	218,673	15.72%
27	Srerampur	76.44%			Kalyan Banerjee	6,73,970	45.65%			Kabir Shankar Bose	4,99,140	33.80%	174,830	11.85%
28	Hooghly	81.38%			Rachana Banerjee	7,02,744	46.31%			Locket Chatterjee	6,25,891	41.24%	76,853	5.07%
29	Arambagh (SC)	82.62%			Mitali Bag	7,12,587	45.71%			Arup Kanti Digar	7,06,188	45.30%	6,399	0.41%
30	Tamluk	84.79%			Abhijit Gangopadhyay	7,65,584	48.54%			Debangshu Bhattacharya	6,87,851	43.61%	77,733	4.93%
31	Kanthi	84.77%			Soumendu Adhikari	7,63,195	49.85%			Uttam Barik	7,15,431	46.73%	47,764	3.12%
32	Ghatal	82.17%			Deepak Adhikari	8,37,990	52.36%			Hiran Chatterjee	6,55,122	40.93%	182,868	11.43%
33	Jhargram (ST)	83.47%			Kalipada Soren	7,43,478	49.87%			Dr. Pranat Tudu	5,69,430	38.20%	174,048	11.67%
34	Medinipur	81.56%			June Malia	7,02,192	47.40%			Agnimitra Paul	6,75,001	45.56%	27,191	1.84%
35	Purulia	78.39%			Jyotirmay Singh Mahato	5,78,489	40.34%			Santiram Mahato	5,61,410	39.15%	17,079	1.19%
36	Bankura	80.75%			Arup Chakraborty	6,41,813	44.33%			Subhas Sarkar	6,09,035	42.07%	32,778	2.26%
37	Bishnupur (SC)	85.91%			Saumitra Khan	6,80,130	44.93%			Sujata Mondal	6,74,563	44.56%	5,567	0.37%
38	Bardhaman Purba (SC)	82.85%			Sharmila Sarkar	7,30,302	48.11%			Ashim Kumar Sarkar	5,59,730	37.38%	160,572	10.72%
39	Bardhaman–Durgapur	80.72%			Kirti Azad	7,20,667	47.99%			Dilip Ghosh	5,82,686	38.80%	137,981	9.19%
40	Asansol	73.27%			Shatrughan Sinha	6,05,645	46.53%			S. S. Ahluwalia	5,46,081	41.96%	59,564	4.78%
41	Bolpur (SC)	82.66%			Asit Kumar Mal	8,55,633	55.98%			Piya Saha	5,28,380	34.57%	327,253	21.41%
42	Birbhum	81.91%			Satabdi Roy	7,17,961	47.00%			Debtanu Bhattacharya	5,20,311	34.06%	197,650	12.94%

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party		Assembly segment wise lead in 2019 Indian general election	2021 West Bengal assembly election result	Assembly segment wise lead in 2024 Indian general election^[7] ^[8]
	TMC	154	215	193
	BJP	126	77	90
	INC	14	0	10
	CPI(M)	0	0	1
Total		294

Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties

Party		No. of Constituencies
	Trinamool Congress	26
	Left Front	0
	Bharatiya Janata Party	16
	Indian National Congress	0
Total		42

Region-Wise Results

Region	Total seats	All India Trinamool Congress		Bharatiya Janata Party		Indian National Congress		Communist Party of India (Marxist)		Others
East Bengal (Ganges Delta Region)	10	08	01	02	01	00		00		00
North Bengal	8	04	01	03		01	01	00		00
Northern Hills	4	01	01	03	01	00		00		00
West Bengal (Rarh Region)	10	08	05	02	05	00		00		00
South Bengal	10	08	01	02	01	00		00		00
Total	42	29	07	12	06	01	01	00		00

Vote-share

Region	All India Trinamool Congress	Bharatiya Janata Party	Indian National Congress	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
East Bengal (Ganges Delta Region)	54.5%	36.8%	0.53%	8.0%
North Bengal	39.1%	34.4%	19.5%	6.9%
Northern Hills	45.3%	50.6%	1.6%	2.3%
West Bengal (Rarh Region)	49.4%	41.6%	2.5%	6.2%
South Bengal	49.2%	42.1%	1.6%	6.9%
Total	45.7%	38.7%	4.6%	5.6%

See also

• Politics of West Bengal
• 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ghosh . Sanchari . 2024-03-16 . Lok Sabha election 2024 date announcement: Bengal to vote in 7 phases . 2024-03-17 . livemint.com . en.
2. Web site: 2024-03-17 . West Bengal to Vote in All 7 Phases of LS Polls: A Look at Key Constituencies in the State . 2024-03-17 . News18 . en.
3. Web site: 15 March 2024. EC Plans 2 Bypolls During LS Elections. The Times of India. 15 March 2024.
4. Web site: Ghosh . Sanchari . 2024-03-16 . Lok Sabha election 2024 date announcement: Bengal to vote in 7 phases . 2024-03-18 . mint . en.
5. Web site: General Election 2024 West Bengal Full Schedule: Know Dates, Seats And Parties . 2024-03-18 . NDTV.com.
6. Web site: West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 2024: Schedule, Phases, Seats, Parties, and Key Players . Y20 India.
7. Web site: Times of . India . 2024-06-05 . West Bengal Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Highligts: TMC retains dominance in West Bengal; wins 29 seats . 2024-06-14 . www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com . en.
8. Web site: Explainer. Aljazeera . 2024-06-06 . India election results: Big wins, losses and surprises . 2024-06-14 . www.aljazeera.com . en.