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The 2024 Indian general electioninWest Bengal will be held in all 7 phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 42 members of the 18th Lok Sabha, with the results declared on 4 June.[1] [2] The by-elections for Bhagabangola and Baranagar in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly are also scheduled with the general election and will take place on 7 May and 1 June respectively.
West Bengal, along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, will be the only states where the 2024 Indian general election will be held in all 7 phases.
On 16 March 2024, the Election Commission of India announced the schedule of the 2024 Indian general election, with West Bengal scheduled to vote during all the 7 phases starting from 19 April and concluding on 1 June. [3][4]
| Poll event | Phase | ||||||
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| I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | |
| Notification Date | 20 March | 28 March | 12 April | 18 April | 26 April | 29 April | 7 May |
| Last Date for filing nomination | 27 March | 4 April | 19 April | 25 April | 3 May | 6 May | 14 May |
| Scrutiny of nomination | 28 March | 5 April | 20 April | 26 April | 4 May | 7 May | 15 May |
| Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 30 March | 8 April | 22 April | 29 April | 6 May | 9 May | 17 May |
| Date of poll | 19 April | 26 April | 7 May | 13 May | 20 May | 25 May | 1 June |
| Date of counting of votes/Result | 4 June 2024 | ||||||
| No. of constituencies | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Phase | Poll Date | Constituencies[5] | Voter Turnout (%) |
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| I | 19 April | Cooch Behar, Alipurduars, Jalpaiguri | |
| II | 26 April | Darjeeling, Raiganj, Balurghat | |
| III | 7 May | Malda Uttar, Malda Dakshin, Jangipur, Murshidabad | |
| IV | 13 May | Baharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman Purba, Burdwan-Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur, Birbhum | |
| V | 20 May | Bangaon, Barrackpur, Howrah, Uluberia, Srerampur, Hooghly, Arambagh | |
| VI | 25 May | Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura, Bishnupur | |
| VII | 1 June | Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar |
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| All India Trinamool Congress | 
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Mamata Banerjee | 42 | |
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| Bharatiya Janata Party | 
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Sukanta Majumdar | 40 (Declared) | |
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 
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Mohammed Salim | 22 (declared) | |
| Indian National Congress | 
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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | 10 (declared) | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 
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Tapan Hor | 2 (declared) | |
| Communist Party of India | 
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Swapan Banerjee | 2 (declared) | |
| All India Forward Bloc | 
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Naren Chatterjee | 2 (declared) | |
| Total | 37 (declared) | ||||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 
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Provash Ghosh | 42 | |
| Indian Secular Front | 
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Nawsad Siddique | 14 | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 
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Manoj Hawladar | 4 | |
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | 
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TBD | 4 | |
| Gana Suraksha Party | |||||
| Kamatapur People’s Party (United) | |||||
| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | ||||
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| AITC | NDA | SDA | Others | ||||
| News18 | March 2024[6] | ±4% | 17 | 25 | 0 | 0 | NDA |
| ABP News-CVoter | March 2024[7] | ±5% | 23 | 19 | 0 | 0 | AITC |
| India TV-CNX | March 2024[8] | ±3% | 21 | 20 | 1 | 0 | AITC |
| Zee News-Matrize | February 2024[9] | ±2% | 24 | 17 | 1 | 0 | AITC |
| India Today-CVoter | February 2024[10] | ±3-5% | 22 | 19 | 1 | 0 | AITC |
| Times Now-ETG | February 2024[11] | ±2% | 26 | 15 | 1 | 0 | AITC |
| ABP News-CVoter | December 2023[12] | ±3-5% | 23-25 | 16-18 | 0-2 | 0 | AITC |
| Times Now-ETG | December 2023[13] | ±3% | 20-24 | 18-20 | 2-4 | 0 | AITC |
| India TV-CNX | October 2023[14] | ±3% | 30 | 10 | 2 | 0 | AITC |
| Times Now-ETG | August 2023[15] | ±3% | 22-24 | 16-18 | 0-3 | 0 | AITC |
| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | ||||
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| ABP News-CVoter | March 2024[16] | ±5% | 42.5% | 40.9% | 17.6% | 1.6 | |
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