The CPI(M)-led Left Front is facing a rout in West Bengal winning so far only one seat while the ruling Trinamool Congress is set to sweep the Lok Sabha polls having already won 13 seats and leading in another 21 constituencies.

The Congress and BJP also won one seat each.

The BJP, fighting on its own, won one seat and is ahead in another, while the Congress retained one and is leading in three others, already having lost the Raiganj seat from where Union Minister Deepa Dasmunshi contested.

President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee has retained the Jangipur seat for the Congress, though winning by a margin of only 8,315 votes.

The CPI(M)-led Left Front, which had 15 seats in the 15th Lok Sabha, managed to wrest the Raiganj seat by a slender margin of 1,163 votes.

CPI(M) central committee member Mohammad Salim won the seat.

The Trinamool Congress, which had 19 seats out of 42 in the present Lok Sabha, made major gains winning 13 and was ahead in 21 other constituencies in some of which it has established a considerable lead.

For the TMC, major winners so far are former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi from Barrackpur. Another former Union minister Saugata Roy won from Dumdum. Both of them retained their seats.

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee won the Diamond Harbour seat. Suvendu Adhikari won from Tamluk and Sugato Bose, a Harvard professor, won from Jadavpur.

BJP’s Babul Supriyo, a playback singer, won by a comfortable margin of 70,260 votes, while its vice-president S.S Ahluwalia was leading from Darjeeling.

The Congress, which had won six seats in 2009 in alliance with the Trinamool Congress, is ahead in four constituencies.

Prominent among them are Union ministers Adhir Chowdhury from Baharampur and A H Khan Chowdhury from Maldah Dakshin.

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