Updated May 03, 2021 · 12:35 am West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Sunday. | PTI
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday led the Trinamool Congress to a spectacular victory by defeating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Assembly elections that were held in a record-eight phase despite the raging coronavirus pandemic. By 12.20 am on Monday, the Trinamool Congress was leading in 213 of Bengal’s 294 seats and the saffron party appeared set to finish below the 100-mark.
The results for Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry have also been trickling in since 8 am.
Anti-incumbency took a beating in West Bengal, Assam and Kerala. In Tamil Nadu, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led alliance was leading in over 150 seats and party chief MK Stalin is all set to become the chief minister for the first time. In Puducherry, the All India NR Congress-led National Democratic Alliance beat the Congress
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PUDUCHERRY: The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements to announce the early trends and the final results of assembly elections in the Union territory of Puducherry and four states besides byelections, said Puducherry district collector and district officer Purva Garg.
The commission will update the round-wise trends of each constituency every few minutes and announce the results on its website https://results.eci.gov.in and through the mobile application Voter Helpline’.
The counting of votes in Puducherry will commence at 8am on Sunday at three centres in the Puducherry region covering 23 assembly constituencies, a centre at Karaikal covering five constituencies and a centre for Mahe and Yanam each covering one constituency each.
Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2021: Dravidian Politics at Crossroads
The elections to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly provide an opportunity to reassess the fault lines in the caste, religious and ethno-geographical identities in the state and their significance in electoral politics.
Elections to the legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu were held in a single phase on 6 April 2021 with a voter turnout of 72.78%. With the counting of votes scheduled to take place on 2 May 2021, the electoral prospects of various parties and alliances are in the fray.
Some of the key pre-poll formations for the 2021 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu include:
i. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and including S Ramadoss’s Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and others;
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