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.
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.
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
- Cooch Behar - BJP
- Alipurduar - BJP
- Jalpaiguri – TMC
- Darjeeling - BJP
- Balurghat - BJP
- Maldaha Dakshin - Congress
- Baharampur - Congress
- Murshidabad - BJP
- Bangaon - TMC
- Krishnanagar - TMC
- Ranaghat - BJP
- Dum Dum - TMC
- Barasat – TMC
- Basirhat - TMC
- Jaynagar - TMC
- Mathurapur - TMC
- Howrah - BJP
- Uluberia - TMC
- Arambag - BJP
- Tamluk - TMC
- Kanthi - TMC
- Jhargram – BJP
- Purulia - BJP
- Bankura – BJP
- Bishnupur - BJP
- Bardhaman Purba - BJP
- Bolpur – TMC
- Birbhum – TMC