West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will contest the 2026 assembly elections from her current seat of Bhabanipur, setting up a direct contest with the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari.
The BJP has already declared Adhikari as its candidate in both Bhabanipur and Nandigram, where Mamata Banerjee lost in 2021.
The Trinamool Congress (TC) will contest 291 of the 294 seats, with the remaining three seats in the Darjeeling hills region to be contested by Anit Thapa-led Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM).
Mamata Banerjee expressed confidence that the party would retain power, saying "We will win more than 226 seats in the 2026 assembly polls."
