THE CHANGING POLITICAL MAP OF INDIA
After the latest round of assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Assam, here's how India's political landscape has changed
The BJP ended 2021 with a chief minister in 12 states or Union territories and an alliance partner in power in six more. However, a large chunk of states were governed by non-BJP, non-NDA parties at the time. In the five years since then, the party’s map has expanded rapidly across India, expanding across the Hindi belt and with deep inroads in the east
These maps show the constituencies won by each party or political alliance over three assembly elections — in 2016, 2021 and 2026.
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