The Bhabanipur assembly seat, represented by West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in the outgoing assembly, has been retained by her party.
Veteran TMC leader Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay succeeded in defeating his nearest BJP rival Rudranil Ghosh by a margin of 28,719 votes in Bhabanipur assembly constituency, as per the results declared by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on May 2.
Across the state, the Trinamool was leading in 215 constituencies out of 292 contested. The BJP is a distant second with leads on 76 seats, and the Left Front and Congress candidates were trailing in all the constituencies.
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The Bhabanipur seat, since 2011, was represented by Mamata Banerjee. The chief minister opted not to contest from the constituency this year, as she challenged her former aide-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram.
In the 2016 assembly polls, Bhabanipur was won by Banerjee with a margin of over 25,000 votes against the then Congress candidate Deepa Dasmunshi.
The constituency, in this year's elections, was contested in the seventh phase of the polls held on April 26.
Apart from West Bengal, the counting of votes is also being held in the states of Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, along with the Union territory of Puducherry.
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