Overview
- West Bengal’s results announced Monday gave the BJP 206 of 294 seats and unseated Mamata Banerjee, who lost Bhabanipur to Suvendu Adhikari in a sweeping end to 15 years of TMC rule.
- The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision struck off roughly 7.9 million names before the vote, drawing TMC claims of biased deletions that the EC rejected as baseless, with post-poll clashes prompting orders for immediate arrests.
- About 240,000 central security personnel fanned out across Bengal, and reporters recorded no bomb attacks or deaths on polling days as turnout hit 92.9 percent after the rolls were compressed by the revision.
- In Tamil Nadu, actor C. Joseph Vijay’s TVK emerged as the single-largest party and secured Congress support to form a government, marking a break from the long-running DMK–Congress partnership and a rare debut surge.
- Kerala returned a Congress-led coalition while Assam prepared a new BJP government after Himanta Biswa Sarma resigned, highlighting broader realignments as regional strongholds gave way to new leadership.