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Voting percentage in West Bengal 2026: 89.99% polling recorded till 5 pm. Check district wise turnout
Voting percentage in West Bengal 2026: The first phase recorded a turnout of 93.19 per cent, highest ever that West Bengal has seen.
Voting percentage in West Bengal 2026 has been on the higher side for the assembly elections, with the first phase witnessing a record turnout and polling for the second being underway.
The first phase recorded a turnout of 93.19 per cent, highest ever that West Bengal has seen, according to Election Commission of India (ECI) data. Track all updates from voting in West Bengal here
Polling for the second and the last phase, which began at 6 am today, has recorded a voting percentage of 89.99 till 5 pm, according to ECI data.
Voting for the first phase took place on April 23, along with the polling for Tamil Nadu assembly elections 2026.
District wise Phase 2 voting (till 1 pm)
Hooghly: 90.44 per cent
Howrah: 89.44 per cent
Kolkata North: 87.77 per cent
Kolkata South: 86.11 per cent
Nadia: 90.28 per cent
North 24 Parganas: 89.74 per cent
Purba Bardhaman: 92.46 per cent
South 24 Parganas: 89.57 per cent
District wise Phase 1 voting
Alipurduar: 93.20 per cent
Bankura: 92.55 per cent
Birbhum: 94.51 per cent
Coochbehar: 96.20 per cent
Dakshin Dinajpur: 95.44 per cent
Darjeeling: 88.98 per cent
Jalpaiguri: 94.76 per cent
Jhargram: 92.26 per cent
Kalimpong: 83.04 per cent
Malda: 94.79 per cent
Murshidabad: 93.67 per cent
Paschim Bardhaman: 90.32 per cent
Paschim Medinipur: 92.75 per cent
Purulia: 91.59 per cent
Uttar Dinajpur: 94.16 per cent
Counting of votes for the assembly elections to four states — Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal — and the Union territory of Puducherry will be taking place on May 4 along with that of bypolls to eight assembly seats across six states.
Exit poll results today: When and where to check
Exit poll projections for the assembly elections to four states and the Union territory of Puducherry are expected to be released from 6:30 pm today, after the conclusion of voting for the second and final phase of West Bengal.
Detailed exit poll projections will be available on hindustantimes.com from 6:30 pm.
In the previous assembly elections in 2021, exit pollsters had predicted a tight contest between the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The TMC, however, defied the polls and returned to power for the third straight term by winning 215 seats, limiting the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) tally to 77 constituencies.
This time also, the Bengal elections are being seen as a contest primarily between the TMC and the BJP, while the Left Front, which was in power for 34 uninterrupted years before the Mamata Banerjee-government eyes a revival.
