Election Results 2026 LIVE Updates: Exit polls predict a close competition between Trinamool Congress and BJP in West Bengal
May 04, 2026 6:57 a.m IST
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Assembly Election Results 2026 LIVE Updates, Assembly Vote Counting Result LIVE:
April was election season in four states and one Union Territory – West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, and Puducherry. The votes will be counted today beginning at 8 am. By the day’s end it would be clear which political parties are going to stay or take power.
In West Bengal, where people voted for 294 seats, it is a battle between the Trinamool Congress helmed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The election holds importance for two reasons – first, Bengal has long avoided the BJP. And second, Mamata Banerjee has waged a war against the Election Commission over the voter roll clean-up exercise Special Intensive Revision (SIR) that removed 89 lakh voters – roughly 11.6 per cent of the state’s electorate. The figure is slightly more than the winning margin of the Trinamool Congress in 2021.
In Tamil Nadu, where votes were cast for 234 seats, it is a triangular battle between actor Vijay’s new party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the ruling DMK in alliance with Congress and DMDK, and the AIADMK in alliance with the BJP and PMK.
In Assam, which has 126 assembly seats, the BJP is hoping for a hat-trick.
In Kerala, a state with 140 assembly seats, the Left Front or the LDF is looking to win a fifth straight term. But exit polls predicted the Congress-led UDF winning. Health warning: exit polls often get it wrong.
In Puducherry, the Union Territory where people voted for 30 seats, N Rangaswamy’s AINRC is eyeing a fourth term.
May 04, 2026 07:15 (IST)
Assembly Election Results LIVE: BJP Candidate From Dispur Confident Of Party’s Win In Assam
Pradyut Bordoloi, BJP candidate from Dispur assembly constituency, said the people of Assam have voted “overwhelmingly for the BJP and BJP-led NDA. I’m sure that by evening today, the people of Assam will have given a very firm mandate that there’ll be a successive BJP-led government and Himanta Biswa Sarma will be the chief minister again.”
May 04, 2026 06:43 (IST)
Vote Counting LIVE Updates: Tensions Erupt Outside Bhabhanipur Counting
BJP counting agents and Trinamool Congress workers clash in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in Kolkata.
May 04, 2026 06:39 (IST)
Assembly Elections 2026 LIVE: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Eyeing A Hat-Trick In Dharmadam
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is contesting from Dharmadam in Kannur district, aiming to win this seat for the third time in a row. This is his seventh time contesting in the assembly elections. Earlier, he won from Kuthuparamba three times and from Payyannur once. In Dharmadam, he is facing VP Abdul Rasheed from the UDF and K Ranjith from the BJP.
May 04, 2026 06:37 (IST)
Following allegations of voter intimidation, unauthorised presence inside booths and possible tampering, the Election Commission ordered a repoll in the Falta Assembly constituency of the South 24 Parganas district.
The repolling will be held on May 21 under stringent security arrangements to ensure a free, fair and transparent exercise, and the counting of votes for the constituency will take place on May 24.
In Falta, TMC’s Jahangir Khan is pitted against BJP’s Debangshu Panda and Abdur Razzak Molla of the Congress. CPI(M )’s Sambhu Nath Kurmi is also in the fray.
May 04, 2026 06:23 (IST)
Assembly Election Results LIVE: Counting Start Time
Heavy security arrangements have been put in place at the counting centre set up at Loyola College in Chennai, where votes for several key Assembly constituencies will be counted today
May 04, 2026 06:16 (IST)
State Election Results 2026 LIVE: Mamata Banerjee Claims Deliberate Power Cuts Near Strongrooms
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed deliberate power cuts near strongrooms and called for vigilance.
In a post late last night, Banerjee said she has received reports that “load-shedding is being deliberately imposed. From Hooghly’s Serampore, Nadia’s Krishnanagar, to Burdwan’s Ausgram, and Kolkata’s Kshudiram Anushilan Kendra, such incidents have come to light where load-shedding is being done in phases, CCTV is being turned off, and vehicles are moving in and out of strong rooms.” She accused the opposition party, the BJP.
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