With over 51%, Trinamool registers its highest vote percentage in West Bengal panchayat polls

Trinamool Congress wins highest-ever vote share in West Bengal panchayat polls; BJP, Left, Congress and the ISF trail

The Trinamool Congress registered its highest-ever vote share in any election by securing about 51.14% votes in the recently concluded West Bengal panchayat polls.

So far, the highest vote share recorded by the Trinamool Congress was in the 2021 Assembly election when the party secured 47.8% of the votes.

In the panchayat elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 22.88% votes, whereas the Communist Party of India (Marxist) got 12.56% votes. The Congress secured about 6.42% votes, while the Indian Secular Front (ISF) secured about 2% votes.

The combined vote strength of the Left Front, the Congress and the ISF comes to 20.98%. The alliance of the Left, the Congress and the ISF is breathing down the neck of the BJP, which is the main Opposition party in the State.

The Trinamool Congress has benefited from the triangular contest and won 79% of the gram panchayats, 92% of panchayat samitis and 100% of zilla parishads. In terms of absolute numbers, of the 3,317 gram panchayats that went to polls in the State, the Trinamool Congress won 2,634 gram panchayats.

As regards 341 panchayat samitis, the Trinamool won 317, the BJP six and the Left parties two. In nine panchayat samitis, “others” (Independents and other parties) won, while seven panchayat samitis threw a hung mandate. The Trinamool Congress won all 20 zilla parishads.

Meanwhile, leaders of the Left Front, the Congress and the ISF took out a rally in Kolkata on Thursday in protest against the violence during the panchayat polls.