India
Did SIR exercise win West Bengal for the BJP?
✦ AI Brief
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) have vote shares of 45.8% and 41.1% respectively in the 2026 assembly elections in West Bengal. The BJP has gained 7.1 percentage points in vote share and the TMC has lost 4.7 percentage points compared to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The BJP has polled 5.6 million more votes while the TMC has polled 1.7 million less votes compared to the 2024 elections. Net SIR deletions in the state are 8.9 million, with 2.7 million deleted