New Delhi, May 5 -- West Bengal Assembly Election 2026: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has returned to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly after being shut out entirely in 2021, winning the Domkal seat in Murshidabad through candidate Mostafijur Rahaman, also known as Rana.

For the first time since 2016, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) holds a seat in the 294-member West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The party, which drew a blank in the 2021 elections and faced withering criticism from both the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has shed what observers called its "zero" tag. The solitary win came from Domkal, a constituency in Murshidabad district with deep historical ties to the Left.

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