ABP News Exit Poll 2019: BJP's Babul Supriyo to bite the dust in Asansol. Here's West Bengal's complete seat-wise projection

West Bengal has a total of 42 Lok Sabha seats, third highest after Uttar Pradesh 80 and Maharashtra's 48.

By : ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 20 May 2019 07:43 PM (IST)

ABP News Exit Poll 2019 BJP's Babul Supriyo to bite the dust in Asansol. Here's West Bengal's complete seat-wise projection ABP News Exit Poll 2019: BJP's Babul Supriyo to bite the dust in Asansol. Here's West Bengal's complete seat-wise projection

Union Minister Babul Supriyo (PIC/Facebook account)

NEW DELHI: The BJP has taken giant strides and made major headway into the Trinamool Congress territory of West Bengal in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, according to an exit poll conducted by ABP News. The saffron party, which has been targeting West Bengal over the past couple of years, is slated to win 16 of the 42 seats in the state, adding 14 Lok Sabha constituencies to its tally of two achieved in 2014 Lok Sabha polls. The TMC, which swept the 2014 general elections in the state by bagging 34 Lok Sabha seats, may be reduced to 24 seats. The Congress, which won four seats in 2014, may get only two seats, the exit poll projected. According to seat-wise projections in the state, Union Minister Babul Supriyo is likely to be vanquished by his TMC rival Moon Moon Sen from Asansol. Sitting Member of Parliament Mamtaz Sanghamita of the Trinamool Congress may taste success by defeating Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart SS Ahluwalia from Burdwan-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency. TMC’s Khalilur Rehman is projected to trounce Congress's Abhijeet Mukherjee in Jangipur.

#ABPExitPoll2019: West Bengal Lok Sabha seat projection: BJP+ - 16, TMC - 24, Cong+ - 2 , Left - 0 TMC's Kalyan Banerjee likely to win from Serampore LS constituency TMC's Mala Roy may win from Kolkata South seat BJP's Medinipur candidate Dilip Ghosh is tipped to win pic.twitter.com/gUrLIAs5CH
— ABP News (@abpnewstv) May 20, 2019

Key takeaways:

TMC's Kalyan Banerjee likely to win from Serampore LS constituency
TMC's Mala Roy may win from Kolkata South seat
BJP's Medinipur candidate Dilip Ghosh is tipped to win
Sitting Member of Parliament Dinesh Trivedi of the Trinamool Congress predicted to win from Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat.
BJP’s Khargen Murmu is projected to win Malda North seat
Union minister and BJP MP Babul Supriyo may bite the dust in Asansol, a seat that is likely to be won by TMC’s Moon Moon Sen.

The state, which has witnessed the bitterest electioneering this time between the TMC and the BJP, went to polls in all seven phases. The BJP had gone all out to make electoral gains in West Bengal, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself holding several rallies. Party chief Amit Shah has also addressed many public meetings besides holding road shows in the state. The state has witnessed the most bitter election campaign this time, which was accompanied by violence during all the six phases of polling. The latest episode of violence was witnessed during a road show of Amit Shah, with the statue of Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, an icon of West Bengal, being vandalised. In view of the violence, the Election Commission (EC) took an unprecedented step of curtailing poll campaign in the state by a day as it ordered stoppage of poll campaigning from 10 p.m. on Thursday in the nine Lok Sabha constituencies. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been a trenchant critic of the BJP and the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo during the course of the national polls. On Sunday, she dismissed exit poll results in a tweet saying: "I don't trust Exit Poll gossip. The game plan is to manipulate or replace thousands of EVMs through this gossip. I appeal to all Opposition parties to be united, strong and bold. We will fight this battle together," the West Bengal CM tweeted.

#ABPExitPoll2019: West Bengal (42 seats)
Burdwan-Durgapur: Win - Sitting MP Mamtaz Sanghamita of TMC Lose - BJP stalwart SS Ahluwalia Raiganj: Win: TMC's MLA Kanhaia Lal Agarwal Lose: Congress’ Deepadas Munshi Malda North: Win: BJP's Khagen Murmu Lose: TMC's Mausam Noor pic.twitter.com/Crk6Rdr50m — ABP News (@abpnewstv) May 20, 2019

ABP Exit Poll 2019 - Below is the complete West Bengal's seat-wise projection: Asansol: Win - TMC's Moon Moon Sen Lose - BJP's Babul Supriyo Burdwan-Durgapur: Win - Sitting Member of Parliament Mamtaz Sanghamita of the Trinamool Congress Lose - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart SS Ahluwalia Raiganj: Win: TMC's MLA Kanhaia Lal Agarwal Lose: Congress’ Deepadas Munshi Malda North: Win: BJP's Khagen Murmu Lose: TMC's Mausam Noor Jangipur: Win: TMC’s Khalilur Rehman Lose: Congress's Abhijeet Mukherjee Barrackpore: Win: Dinesh Trivedi win Serampore: Win: Kalyan Banerjee, TMC Hooghly: Win: Locket Chatterjee, BJP Ghatal: Lose: BJP's Bharti Ghosh Medinipur: Win: Dileep Ghosh, BJP Diamond Harbour: Win: Abhishek Banerjee, TMC Jadhavpur: Win: TMC's Mimi Chakraborty Kolkata South: Lose: BJP's CK Bose Kolkata North: Lose: BJP's Rahul Sinha