The Trinamool Congress Monday made a clean sweep in the civic polls to four municipal corporations in West Bengal -- Bidhannagar, Siliguri, Chandernagore and Asansol -- as per data available on the State Election Commission's website.
The TMC retained Bidhannagar by winning 39 out of 41 seats, but opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India-Marxist failed to open their account.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee thanked people for casting their votes in favour of the TMC.
Banerjee also said that the state administration would continue working for the cause of common people.
The TMC supremo, who had visited Uttar Pradesh last week to campaign for Samajwadi Party, contended that her camp decided against contesting elections in that state in "the larger interest".
"The TMC did not field any candidate in UP as I did not want Akhilesh Yadav (SP chief) to get weak in any seat. In the first phase, I am hoping Akhilesh's party will win 37 of 57 seats," she told a news channel.
The Congress managed to bag one seat, and an Independent candidate secured victory in one ward.
In Chandernagore, the TMC bagged 31 of the 32 seats, while the CPI-M won in one ward.
However, the icing on the cake for the ruling party was snatching the Siliguri Municipal Corporation from the CPIM-led Left Front, where the TMC pocketed 37 out of 47 seats.
The BJP got the opposition status by clinching five seats, whereas the Left was relegated to the third position as it managed to win only four seats, and the Congress one, according to the SEC data.
The TMC's vote share in Siliguri was 78.72 per cent, while the BJP and CPI-M managed 10.64 per cent and 8.5 per cent of the votes polled, respectively.
An elated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that party leader Gautam Deb, who won by a margin of 3,000 votes, would be the next mayor of SMC.
In Asansol, the TMC emerged victorious in 66 of the 106 seats and was leading in five wards, while the BJP won in five seats, and the CPI-M and the Congress in two each.
Banerjee thanked people for her party's “thumping win” in the civic polls, calling it a victory of the masses.
Elections to the four municipal corporations, where a total of 953 candidates were in fray, were held on February 12.
