West Bengal Panchayat Election Results 2023 Latest Updates: Mamata Banerjee’s TMC maintains strong lead over BJP, secures over 3,700 seats

West Bengal Panchayat Election Result 2023 Latest Updates: Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday won over 3,700 gram panchayat seats in West Bengal and is leading in 3,167 seats, while the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 673 seats and is leading in 782. Forward on the seats. Out of 63,229 gram panchayat seats across the state. According to the latest figures released by the West Bengal Election Commission, the CPI(M) has won 241 seats and is currently leading in 627 gram panchayat seats, followed by its ally Congress, which has so far won 107 seats and is leading in 241. Moving forward seats. In the Darjeeling Hills, the BGPM is leading in 21 of Darjeeling’s 598 and Kalimpong’s 281 seats, while the BJP is leading in one, and independents in four.

The counting of votes for the three-tier panchayat elections to nearly 74,000 seats, which includes 9,730 panchayat samiti seats besides gram panchayat seats and 928 zilla parishad seats, began at 8 am on Tuesday amid tight security. There are about 339 counting centers spread across 22 districts. The maximum number of counting centers are in 28 South 24 Parganas, while Kalimpong has the minimum number of four.

The counting of West Bengal Panchayat Elections 2023 is likely to continue for the next two days as the counting of ballots and compilation of results will take time.

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As the early trends started coming in, a war of words broke out between the TMC and the BJP, with the ruling party accusing the ruling party of making a ‘last desperate attempt to steal votes by preventing opposition agents from entering the counting centres’.

“TMC goons are making a desperate attempt to steal the election by preventing counting agents and candidates of BJP and other opposition political parties from entering the counting centres. They are being prevented from proceeding to the venue, and the counting agents Bombs are being hurled to create scare,” said Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly.

Rejecting the allegations, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, “Sense of defeat, they are making baseless allegations.”

“Rejected by the people and feeling a humiliating defeat, this is the BJP’s last-ditch effort to make poor excuses for its organizational failures,” he said.

Violence broke out during panchayat elections in West Bengal on Saturday

West Bengal’s rural elections were marred by violence on Saturday, leaving 15 people dead, while ballot boxes were smashed, ballot boxes set on fire and bombs hurled at rivals at several places. Eleven of those killed were reportedly associated with Mamata Banerjee’s party. The total death toll in the state has crossed 30 since the election process began on June 8 and the dates were announced.

While 80.71 per cent polling was recorded on Saturday, 69.85 voter turnout was recorded till 5 pm in 696 booths across West Bengal where re-polling took place on Monday. A total of 5.67 crore people living in rural areas of the state were eligible to decide the fate of 2.06 lakh candidates for 73,887 seats in the panchayat system.

The decision to re-poll was taken after reviewing reports of violence and tampering with ballot boxes and ballot papers on Saturday.

It is noteworthy that Saturday’s violence was in keeping with the state’s history of violent rural elections, including the 2003 panchayat polls, which gained notoriety for the death of 76 people during the election process, including nearly 100,000 on polling day. 40 people were killed.

This year, more than 30 people have died since the elections were announced early last month, almost equal to the death toll in the last panchayat polls in 2018. However, this time, the opposition fielded candidates in more than 90 per cent of the seats. In stark contrast to the 2018 rural polls, when the ruling TMC won 34 per cent seats unopposed.

Panchayat Election Result 2023: TMC emerged victorious in 2018

In the 2018 West Bengal panchayat elections, the ruling TMC emerged victorious in 90 per cent panchayat seats and all 22 zilla parishads.

The elections saw widespread violence, with the opposition alleging that they were prevented from filing nominations for several seats.