Bengal polls: Phase 1 fundamentals

The first phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls began today.

Total seats: 54
Total polling stations: 8,822
Critical booths: 1,800
Vulnerable villages: Data not available
Total electors: 97,62,159 (male: 51,08,390; female: 46,53,769)
Total contestants: 366 CPI(M): 33, Trinamool Congress: 26, Congress: 27, RSP: 9,
All India Forward Bloc : 10, Others & independents: 261

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Seat with most contestants: Phansidewa -ST (9)
Seat with least contestants: Darjeeling (5)
Largest seat area-wise: Data Not available
Smallest seat area-wise: Data not available
District with most voters: Jalpaiguri (22,98,787)
District with least voters: North Dinajpur (9,23,944)
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Key candidates (constituency)

CPI(M)

Ashoke Bhattacharya, urban development minister (Siliguri)
Sailen Sarkar, environment and Parliamentary affairs minister (Ratua)

RSP

Kshti Goswami, state PWD minister (Alipurduars)

All India Forward Bloc:
Udayan Guha (Dinahata)

Congress
AN (Lebu) Khan Chowdhury (Sujapur)
Deba Prasad (Mithu) Roy (Alipurduars)

Trinamool Congress
Sabitri Mitra (Manik Chak)

Party position in 2006

Party wise result

Party Seats

Contested

Seats Won

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

212

176

Indian National Congress

262

21

Communist Party of India

13

8

Bahujan Samaj Party

128

0

Bharatiya Janata Party

29

Nationalist Congress Party

2

0

All India Trinamool Congress

257

30

All India Forward Bloc

34

23

Revolutionary Socialist Party

23

20

Samajwadi Party

32

0

Rashtriya Janata Dal

2

1

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation

25

0

Lok Jan Shakti Party

8

0

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

7

0

Janata Dal (Secular)

6

0

Indian Union Muslim League

6

0

Shiv Sena

3

0

Janata Dal (United)

2

0

West Bengal Socialist Party

4

4

Gorkha National Liberation Front

5

3

Jharkhand Party (Naren)

4

1

Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)

2

1

Amra Bangalee

22

Party for Democratic Socialism

12

0

Jharkhand Disom Party

10

0

Indian Justice Party

6

0

Indian People's Forward Bloc

3

0

Paschim Banga Rajya Muslim League

2

0

Samajtantric Party of India

2

0

Jana Unnayan Mancha

1

0

Social Justice Party

1

0

Shoshit Samaj Party

1

0

Republican Party of India (Athvale)

1

0

Rashtriya Samadhaan Party

1

0

Independent

526

6

Total Number of constituencies

294

Results declared

294

Total contestants

1654