Highlights: No political leaders to enter Cooch Behar in next 72 hrs, says EC

People queue to cast their vote in Phase 4 of West Bengal assembly election.

Voting for the fourth phase of the eight-phase assembly election in West Bengal has ended. The assembly seats on the battleground on Saturday are spread across Alipurduar and Cooch Behar in North Bengal and Howrah, Hooghly, South 24 Parganas and parts of Kolkata in south Bengal. In 2016, the TMC won 39 of the 44 constituencies, while it emerged victorious in only 25 of them in 2019 if the results for the Lok Sabha elections are distributed at the assembly seat level, data presented by the Hindustan Times showed.

The temperature is already high in the state as the election commission has served two notices to the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).

West Bengal will vote again a week later on April 17 for the fifth phase. The counting of votes will take place on May 2.