page_title: 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
section_title: Schedule
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election / Schedule
caption_attribution_description: English: A map showing the polling dates for various districts in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.
context_page_description: A Legislative Assembly election was held in 2016 for the 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the state of West Bengal in India.The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was reelected with an enhanced majority. Like in the 2011 election, the poll was held in six phases. The first phase was held in Naxalite-Maoist affected Red corridor areas with two polling dates: 4 April and 11 April. The other phases were held on 17, 21, 25, 30 April and 5 May. The result of the election was declared on 19 May.
  In the previous election in 2011, the All India Trinamool Congress in a coalition with INC won a majority and ended the 34-year rule of the Left Front government.
context_section_description: Assembly elections in West Bengal are to be held in phases from 4 April to 5 May 2016.
caption: Voting phases.
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