Results of the 2026 assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry have been declared. The BJP and its partners retained power in Assam and Puducherry, while incumbents lost in the other three states. The outcomes highlight factors shaping India's path as a secular, democratic, federal republic.
In Assam, the BJP crossed the halfway mark of 64 seats on its own for the first time in the 126-member assembly and won 101 seats with partners. The Congress recorded its worst performance, lower than its 1985 tally after the Assam Agitation. Regional parties in the Congress-led alliance, including Raijor Dal and Assam Jatiya Parishad, were routed, while NDA allies Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People’s Front won a few seats. Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi lost his own seat.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma strengthened his position through a mix of polarising communal rhetoric and redistribution schemes. The BJP alliance also retained power in Puducherry.
In West Bengal, the BJP secured a decisive victory through long-term planning, the state's political history, a tainted election process, and exhaustion of the Trinamool Congress (TMC)’s politics. Around 27 lakh people were arbitrarily removed from electoral rolls, with the Supreme Court of India taking an unhelpful view of this assault on democracy's fundamentals. Incumbents were swept away in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and elsewhere by a strong current of changed popular opinion.
