# Electoral history of Mamata Banerjee

This is a summary of the electoral history of Mamata Banerjee, who is currently serving as the 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal, since May 2011.

## Summary
### Lok Sabha elections

| Year | Constituency | Party | Votes | % | Result |
| 1984 | Jadavpur | INC | 331,618 | 50.87 | Won |
| 1989 | Jadavpur | INC | 410,288 | 46.67 | Lost |
| 1991 | Kolkata Dakshin | INC | 367,896 | 52.46 | Won |
| 1996 | Kolkata Dakshin | INC | 438,252 | 52.50 | Won |
| 1998 | Kolkata Dakshin | AITC | 503,551 | 59.37 | Won |
| 1999 | Kolkata Dakshin | AITC | 469,103 | 58.26 | Won |
| 2004 | Kolkata Dakshin | AITC | 393,561 | 51.10 | Won |
| 2009 | Kolkata Dakshin | AITC | 576,045 | 57.19 | Won |

### West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections

| Year | Constituency | Party | Votes | % | Result |
| 2011^ | Bhabanipur | AITC | 73,635 | 77.46 | Won |
| 2016 | Bhabanipur | AITC | 65,520 | 47.67 | Won |
| 2021 | Nandigram | AITC | 108,808 | 47.64 | Lost |
| 2021^ | Bhabanipur | AITC | 85,263 | 71.90 | Won |
^By poll

## Detailed results
### Lok Sabha elections
#### Lok Sabha Election 1984

1984 Indian general election : Jadavpur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Mamata Banerjee | 331,618 | 50.87% |
| | CPI(M) | Somnath Chatterjee | 311,958 | 47.85% |
| | IC(S) | Sakti Sarkar | 5993 | 0.92% |
| | Independent | Rajanath Prasad | 2336 | 0.36% |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 19,660 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 651905 | |
| | INC gain from CPIM | INC gain from CPIM | Swing | {{{swing}}} |

#### Lok Sabha Election 1989

1989 Indian general election : Jadavpur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CPI(M) | Malini Bhattacharya | 441,188 | 50.19% | +4.00% |
| | INC | Mamata Banerjee | 410,288 | 46.67% | |
| | BJP | Uttam Basu | 9874 | 1.12% | |
| | IUML | Laskar Jabed Ali | 7994 | 0.91% | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 30,900 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 879040 | | |
| | CPIM gain from INC | CPIM gain from INC | Swing | {{{swing}}} | |

#### General election 1991

General Election, 1991: Calcutta South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Mamata Banerjee | 367,896 | 52.46 |
| | CPI(M) | Biplab Dasgupta | 2,74,233 | 39.10 |
| | BJP | Somraj Dutta | 50,541 | 7.21 |
| | Independent | Ashok kumar Roy Chowdhury | 1,958 | 0.28 |
| | Independent | Sushil Chandra Majumdar | 1,779 | 0.25 |
| | BSP | Parimal Kanti Ray | 1,121 | 0.16 |
| | Independent | Priti Mazumder | 877 | 0.13 |
| | Independent | Bandana Biswas | 837 | 0.12 |
| | Doordarshi Party | Hari Shankar Shah | 792 | 0.11 |
| | Independent | Hajranchhor Chand Bhandari | 548 | 0.08 |
| | Independent | Bhagwan Das Nathany | 413 | 0.06 |
| | Independent | Arun Ghosh | 295 | 0.04 |
| | Independent | Murari Mohan Ghosh | 798 | 0.10 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 93,663 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,01,290 | 68.50 |
| | INC gain from CPI(M) | INC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | |

#### General election 1996

General Election, 1996: Calcutta South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | INC | Mamata Banerjee | 438,252 | 52.50 |
| | CPI(M) | Bharati Mukherjee | 3,34,991 | 40.10 |
| | BJP | Santi Roy | 45,066 | 5.30 |
| | Independent | Bulu Chatterjee | 3,439 | 0.40 |
| | Independent | Sushil Chandra Majumdar | 1,869 | 0.20 |
| | Independent | D. Guha | 1,755 | 0.20 |
| | Independent | Tripti Das | 1,589 | 0.20 |
| | Independent | Bandana Biswas | 1,572 | 0.20 |
| | All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) | Yasmeen Sen Gupta | 1,527 | 0.20 |
| | Independent | Lalita Seth | 1,482 | 0.20 |
| | Independent | Ramagardi Yadav | 1,285 | 0.20 |
| | Independent | Bablu Dutta | 958 | 0.10 |
| | Independent | Murari Mohan Ghosh | 798 | 0.10 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,03,261 | 12.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,52,458 | 73.0 |
| | INC hold | INC hold | Swing | |

#### General election 1998

General Election, 1998: Calcutta South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 503,551 | 59.37 |
| | CPI(M) | Prasanta Kumar Sur | 279,470 | 32.95 |
| | INC | Sougata Roy | 56,725 | 6.69 |
| | Independent | Partha Sarathi Ghosh | 1,937 | 0.23 |
| | RJD | Salik Ram Shaw | 1,498 | 0.18 |
| | Independent | G.Joseph | 1.497 | 0.18 |
| | Independent | Rina Sutradhar | 1,447 | 0.17 |
| | Independent | Adrish Bhattacharya | 1,236 | 0.15 |
| | Independent | Addy Samir Kumar | 493 | 0.06 |
| | Independent | Paresh Nath Bandyopadhyay | 340 | 0.04 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,24,081 | 27.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,05,121 | 66.96% |
| | AITC gain from INC | AITC gain from INC | Swing | |

#### General election 1999

General Election, 1999: Calcutta South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 469,103 | 58.26 |
| | CPI(M) | Subhankar Chakraborty | 2,55,095 | 31.68 |
| | INC | Partha Roy Chowdhury | 51,735 | 6.43 |
| | CPI(ML) | Dr. Partha Sarathi Ghosh | 6,186 | |
| | BSP | Mohammed Sahabuddun | 6,091 | 0.76 |
| | Independent | Ranjan Kumar Das | 5.841 | |
| | Independent | Murari Mohan Ghosh | 4,512 | |
| | Independent | Priya Nath Banerjee | 2,740 | |
| | Independent | Kabita Mukherjee | 2,160 | |
| | Independent | Bandana Biswas | 1,658 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,14,008 | 26.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,05,121 | 66.96 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | |

#### General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Calcutta South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 393,561 | 51.10 | −7.26 |
| | CPI(M) | Rabin Deb | 295,132 | 38.30 | +6.62 |
| | INC | Nafisa Ali | 60,377 | 7.80 | |
| | Independent | Sujit Kumar Roy | 4,782 | 0.60 | |
| | BSP | Kusha Ram | 4,431 | 0.60 | |
| | Independent | Bandana Das | 4,130 | 0.50 | |
| | Independent | Mukul Paul | 2,524 | 0.30 | |
| | Independent | Ranjit Banerjee | 2,306 | 0.30 | |
| | Independent | Barnali Mukherjee | 2,258 | 0.30 | |
| | Independent | Santu Mukherjee | 1,708 | 0.20 | |
| | Independent | Bhushan Mondal | 1,533 | 0.20 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 98,429 | 12.8% | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,70,828 | 70.3% | |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | | |

#### General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Kolkata Dakshin :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 576,045 | 57.19 | +6.09 |
| | CPI(M) | Rabin Deb | 3,56,474 | 35.39 | −2.91 |
| | BJP | Jyotsna Banerjee | 39,744 | 3.95 | |
| | BSP | Paresh Chandra Roy | 6,745 | 0.67 | |
| | IND | Yusuf Jamal Siddique | 6,042 | 0.60 | |
| | IUML | Asif Md | 5,896 | 0.59 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,19,571 | 21.80 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 10,07,225 | 66.89 | |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | | |

### West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections
#### Bye-election, 2011

The bypoll to the Bhowanipore seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Trinamool Congress Subrata Bakshi resigned to make way for the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to contest. She had not contested the state assembly elections earlier. She had to become a member of the state assembly within six months of her assuming office as Chief Minister as per the rules of the Constitution of India.
Bye-election, 2011: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee (CM Candidate) | 73,635 | 77.46 | +12.69 |
| | CPI(M) | Nandini Mukherjee | 19,422 | 20.43 | −7.55 |
| | Independent | Sujay Krishna Bhadra | 809 | 0.85 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 54,213 | 57.03 | +20.24 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 95,064 | 44.73 | −19.04 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | +12.69 | |

#### 2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 65,520 | 47.67 | 29.79 |
| | INC | Deepa Dasmunshi | 40,219 | 29.26 | New |
| | BJP | Chandra Kumar Bose | 26,299 | 19.13 | New |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 2,461 | 1.79 | New |
| | BSP | Nirmal Kanti Samaddar | 669 | 0.27 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 25,301 | 18.41 | 38.62 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,37,475 | 66.83 | 22.11 |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | 29.79 | |

#### 2021

In the 2021 elections, Suvendu Adhikari of BJP defeated his nearest rival and incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee of TMC.
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Nandigram :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Suvendu Adhikari | 110,764 | 48.49 | 43.09 |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 1,08,808 | 47.64 | 19.56 |
| | CPI(M) | Minakshi Mukherjee | 6,267 | 2.74 | 23.96 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 1,090 | 0.48 | 0.15 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,956 | 0.85 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,28,467 | 88.55 | 1.58 |
| | BJP gain from AITC | BJP gain from AITC | Swing | | |

#### 2021 by-election

Bye-election, 2021: Bhabanipur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 85,263 | 71.90 | 14.19 |
| | BJP | Priyanka Tibrewal | 26,428 | 22.29 | 12.87 |
| | CPI(M) | Shrijeeb Biswas | 4,226 | 3.56 | |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 1,453 | 1.23 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 58,835 | 49.61 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | | |
| | AITC hold | AITC hold | Swing | 14.19 | |