Kolkata: Contesting on its own, Trinamool Congress on Friday put up a stunning victory in West Bengal winning 211 of the 294 seats, bettering its 2011 tally of 184 seats.
An analysis of the results indicated that the party's vote percentage also increased compared to 2011 Assembly poll and 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
According to Election Commission's statistics, TMC this time got 44.9% of the total votes polled in comparison to 39% in 2011 and 39.03% in 2014.
The CPIM-led left front and Congress which had formed an alliance to fight TMC failed to put up a creditable performance.
The combined vote share of the Left Front was also reduced to nearly 24% from 41% in 2011.
The Left Front had won 62 seats in 2011 Assembly poll, of which CPI (M) had won 40 seats.
Congress, however, bettered its vote percentage this time to 12.3 compared to 8.91% in 2011 when it had contested in alliance with TMC. In 2014 Lok Sabha poll, Congress's vote share in the state was 9.6%.
BJP, on the other hand, increased its vote percentage to 10.2 compared 4.06% secured in 2011 Assembly election and managed to capture three seats.
In 2014 Lok Sabha poll, BJP had secured nearly 17% vote. Poll analysts said although BJP's vote percentage was reduced from the 2014 Lok Sabha poll, the opposition did not benefit out of it.
Commenting on the poor performance of the Left-Congress combine, Poll analysts said it appears that there was transfer of votes from the Left to Congress, but the Congress voters did not transfer their votes to the Left candidates.
I do not think that our alliance with the Congress is the reason behind 'this' election results. To understand the reason, we need to do a deep assessment of the results, CPI (M) state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra said when asked whether Congress-left alliance failed.
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