Kolkata: The BJP It managed to capture 207 seats in the West Bengal Assembly elections, leading to a massive victory over the Trinamool Congress, which was reduced to 80 seats after the late declaration of results from Rajarhat New Town – the constituency which recorded the lowest victory margin in this election.Congress and Aam Janata Unnayan Party won two seats each, while CPM and All India Secular Front (AISF) won one seat each.The final result from Rajarhat New Town came after long counting, in which BJP candidate Pijush Kanoria defeated Trinamool’s Tapas Chatterjee in a close contest by just 316 votes. After 18 rounds of counting, Kanoria got 1,06,564 votes, while Chatterjee got 1,06,248 votes.The BJP also registered other minor victories across the state. In Satgachhi, BJP’s Agnishwar Naskar defeated Trinamool’s Somashree Betal by 401 votes, while in Raina, BJP’s Subhash Patra defeated Trinamool’s Mandira Dalui by 834 votes.The measure of BJP’s victory was visible not only in seat share but also in vote percentage. The party increased its vote share from 38% in the 2021 assembly elections to 45.84% in 2026, a jump of nearly eight percentage points. Meanwhile, Trinamool’s vote share fell from 48% to 40.8%, a decline of nearly seven percentage points.Despite the vote share difference between the BJP and Trinamool being only 5 percentage points – the smallest difference between the two in the last 25 years – the BJP converted that lead into a major one, winning more than 2.5 times the number of seats secured by the ruling party.Geographically, the BJP’s victory was particularly impressive in several districts, where it completely shut out the Trinamool. The party wiped out the ruling party in eight districts – Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong and Darjeeling in north Bengal, and Purulia, Bankura, East Burdwan and Jhargram in the south. In Cooch Behar, Trinamool could win only one seat.The BJP was expected to show a strong performance in areas where it had already built momentum in the recent elections, including North Bengal and Jangalmahal. However, its performance in the second phase of voting proved decisive in turning the contest into a landslide.Of the 152 seats that went to polls in the first phase, the BJP won 109 seats, while the Trinamool won 38 seats.In the second phase, 142 constituencies were scheduled to vote on 29 April, however voting in Falta was canceled and will now take place on 21 May, with results expected on 24 May. Excluding Falta, BJP won 98 of the remaining 141 seats, while Trinamool managed to win 42 seats.The numbers underline the scale of the BJP’s success in a state that has long been considered one of the toughest political battlegrounds.All data points are available on Google Pinpoint.