Trinamool Congress (TMC) National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has made a record for the largest victory margin in West Bengal. Abhishek Banerjee has won the Diamond Harbour constituency with a margin of 703,137 votes. Abhishek Banerjee secured 10,48,230 votes. He defeated the BJP’s Abhijit Das. Abhijit Das secured 3,37,300 votes. Das protested outside the counting center from the start of the day, alleging manipulation by TMC counting agents.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Banerjee won by a margin of around 320,594 votes, breaking the 20-year-old record of former CPI(M) MP Anil Basu. He has broken the record of Anil Basu of CPI(M) who won in Arambagh LS with a margin of 6,82,502 votes in 2004 in the state. Banerjee not only broke that record but also surpassed the 700,000-vote margin, which is unprecedented in West Bengal’s electoral history.
Since 2014, Abhishek Banerjee has served as the TMC MP for the Diamond Harbour seat. In recent years, he has risen to become the second-in-command in the Trinamool Congress party, led by Mamata Banerjee. Banerjee previously claimed that the TMC would win around 30 seats in Bengal. Currently, the party has secured 29 seats, with the BJP leading in 12 seats and Congress in one.
Established during the first Lok Sabha elections in 1952, the Diamond Harbour constituency comprises seven legislative assembly segments – Falta, Maheshtala, Bishnupur, Diamond Harbour, Satgachhia, Metiaburuz, and Budge Budge.
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Historically, the Lok Sabha seat was a staunch stronghold of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which secured ten consecutive terms from 1967 to 2004. However, a significant shift in political dynamics occurred in 2009 when the Trinamool Congress’ Somendra Nath Mitra clinched victory in the seat, triumphing over CPM’s Samik Lahiri with a vote margin of 14.39%.
Notably, Bengal has 42 Lok Sabha seats, and according to ECI data, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has won 29 seats and is leading in 1 seat.