As of 9:45 pm, the Trinamool Congress has won 22 of the 42 seats and is leading in seven other seats in the state. The BJP has won six seats and are leading in six others. The Congress has won one seat.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee held a press conference this evening as leads show a return to coalition politics. Here are the highlights from her speech:

Trinamool heavyweight and sitting MP Abhishek Banerjee is all set to clinch a third straight victory from the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat, with an insurmountable lead of over 6,79,876 votes, as counting was underway.
Abhishek Banerjee has so far got 9,84,113 votes till 3.45 pm, while his BJP opponent, Abhijit Das, trails far behind with 3,04,237 votes, according to Election Commission data.
In 2019, Mr Banerjee won by a margin exceeding three lakh votes and captured more than 56 per cent vote share.
Strategically nestled between Kolkata and the South 24 Parganas district, Diamond Harbour is a vital stronghold for the Trinamool Congress.
Diamond Harbour has also turned into an epicentre of West Bengal's political battleground, with the TMC projecting it as a "model constituency", while the opposition labelling the constituency as a "laboratory of violence".

Heavyweight BJP candidate Shantanu Thakur was leading in West Bengal's Bongaon seat - a Matua bastion- over his nearest rival, TMC's Biswajit Das, by over 31,112 votes.
In Murshidabad constituency, CPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim was trailing by a margin of 18,055 votes over his nearest rival and sitting MP, TMC's Abu Taher Khan.
Heavyweight BJP candidate and state president Sukanta Majumdar was trailing in Balurghat seat over his nearest rival, TMC's Biplab Mitra, by 4,363 votes, as per the EC website.
BJP candidate SS Ahluwalia was trailing in West Bengal's Asansol seat over his nearest rival, TMC's Shatrughan Sinha, by 39,677 votes.
TMC candidate Arup Chakraborty was ahead of BJP candidate and sitting MP Subhas Sarkar in Bankura Lok Sabha constituency by 18,161 votes.
TMC candidate and party's Lok Sabha leader Sudip Bandopadhyay was leading by 20,262 votes from Kolkata North seat over his nearest BJP rival Tapas Roy.
In Bardhaman-Durgapur's seat, TMC candidate Kirti Azad was leading by 69,041 votes over his nearest BJP rival Dilip Ghosh.
In Kolkata South, TMC candidate Mala Roy was leading over her nearest rival, CPI(M)'s Saira Shah Halim, by a margin of 1,23,231 votes.
In Barrackpore, TMC's Partha Bhowmick was leading by a margin of 21,124 votes over his nearest rival and sitting MP Arjun Singh.

In Joynagar, TMC's sitting MP Pratima Mondal was leading by a margin of over 1,64,780 votes over BJP candidate Ashok Kandary.
Heavyweight BJP candidate and state president Sukanta Majumdar was trailing in the Balurghat seat over his nearest rival, TMC's Biplab Mitra, by 15,554 votes, as per the EC website.
In Malda Uttar, sitting MP and BJP candidate Khagen Murmu was leading by a margin of 11,119 votes over his nearest rival, TMC's Prasun Banerjee.
In Cooch Behar, BJP candidate and sitting MP Nisith Pramanik was trailing by a margin of 5,529 votes against his TMC rival, Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia.
In Ranaghat Lok Sabha seat, BJP's Jagannath Sarkar was leading by over 30,862 votes against the TMC's Mukut Mani Adhikari.
In Krishnanagar, BJP candidate Amrita Roy was trailing by over 62,501 votes against her nearest rival, TMC's Mahua Moitra.

The Congress, which was leading in one seat, is trailing in Baharampur Lok Sabha seat from where West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is seeking a sixth term.
TMC candidate and sitting MP Abhishek Banerjee is leading in Diamond Harbour constituency over his nearest rival, BJP's Abhijit Das, by a margin of 3,42,683 votes.
In Bolpur, sitting TMC MP Asit Mal was leading by a margin of 1,71,000 votes over his nearest rival of the BJP's Piya Saha.
BJP candidate Rekha Patra of Basirhat, where Sandeshkhali is situated, was trailing against her nearest rival, TMC's Sheikh Nurul Islam, by over 1,44,577 votes.
TMC's Hooghly candidate Rachana Banerjee was leading over her nearest BJP rival and sitting MP Locket Chatterjee by a margin of over 29,688 votes.
In Malda Dakshin, Congress candidate Isha Khan Choudhury was leading by 15,733 votes over her nearest BJP rival, Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury.
In Jadavpur, TMC's Sayani Ghosh was leading by over 1,04,816 votes over her nearest BJP rival Anirban Ganguly.

Till 1 pm, the Trinamool Congress bagged 47 per cent votes, up from 43 per cent in 2019. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the TMC had won 22 seats, whereas the BJP had won 18, and the Congress had bagged two.
Despite its pitch campaign with top central BJP leaders leading the charge, the party's tally is all set to decline by eight seats and a vote share of three per cent as per the current leads. In 2019, BJP bagged 40 per cent of the total votes polled.
The CPI (M) seems to be failing to open its account from the state just like in 2019, as it isn't leading in any of the 42 seats.

The Trinamool Congress raced ahead of its rivals, leading in 31 seats after several rounds of counting, while the BJP led in 10, and Congress in one, even as it took an insurmountable lead in a number of seats, according to the Election Commission website. If TMC can hold on to this tally till evening, the party is all set for second best performance in the state after 2014 when it had won 34 seats.

TMC at 22, BJP at 18 and Congress at 2.

TMC at 24, BJP at 16 and Congress at 2.

As of 9:15 am, the BJP's Agnimitra Paul is holding her Medinipur seat. Former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who quite the judiciary and joined the BJP weeks before the election, is leading from the Tamluk constituency.

Senior Trinamool leader Abhishek Banerjee, who is also Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew, is holding his Diamond Harbour seat. The party's Mala Roy is holding the Kolkata Dakshin seat, which is Ms Banerjee's bastion. However, the Trinamool is losing - to the BJP's Tapas Roy - in Kolkata Uttar.

Among the heavyweights, the Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was leading in Bahrampur (one of two seats the party won in 2019) and the BJP's Sukunta Majumdar was ahead in Balurghat.

At 9 am INDIA was leading in 19 seats and the BJP coalition was ahead in 20.

Counting began at 8 am and the early trends from postal ballots show that the BJP and Trinamool Congress are neck and neck.

Though Mamata Banerjee is part of the opposition INDIA Bloc nationally, in Bengal, her party is contesting independently of the alliance in all 42 seats. The Congress and CPI(M) are contesting together.

West Bengal elects 42 of 543 Lok Sabha seats. In 2019, of the 42, Trinamool had won 22 seats and the BJP came a close second with 18 seats. The Congress, backed by the Communist Party CPI(M) came a distant third with 2 seats.

The electoral contest in West Bengal has seen its share of turbulence as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP takes on Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress or TMC.