As results of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry are declared, here's how the big names fared.
MAMATA BANERJEE
In a major upset for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, she lost her Bhabanipur seat to Bharatiya Janata Party's Suvendu Adhikari by over 15,000 votes.
M K STALIN
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin lost his Kolathur seat to TVK's V S Babu.
HIMANTA BISWA SARMA
Assam CM Himanata Biswa Sarma won in the Jalukbari seat by over 89,000 votes, as the BJP scored hat-trick in the state.
VIJAY
Delivering a shocking defeat to the two Dravidian majors, TVK chief Vijay won in both Perambur and Tiruchirappalli-East constituencies.
PINARAYI VIJAYAN
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan won his Dharmadam seat, although he tendered his resignation from the post as the LDF lost power to the UDF after 10 years.
SUVENDU ADHIKARI
BJP's Suvendu Adhikari not only comfortably won his Nandigram seat, but also decisively defeated Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur.
GAURAV GOGOI
Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi lost to BJP's Hitendranath Goswami by 23,182 votes in the Jorhat assembly seat.
UDHAYANIDHI STALIN
DMK's Udhayanidhi Stalin won the Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni seat by over 7,000 votes.
EDAPPADI K PALANISWAMI
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief Edappadi K Palaniswami on Monday won by a record margin of 98,110 votes from Edappadi assembly constituency in Chennai district.
O PANNEERSELVAM
DMK's Panneerselvam won from Bodinayakanur. A trusted Jayalalithaa aide, he switched to the DMK in February 2026.
BADRUDDIN AJMAL
AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal won the Binnakandi assembly constituency by defeating Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP)'s Rejaul Karim Choudhury by a margin of 35,380 votes.
RATNA DEBNATH
Mother of the RG Kar rape-murder victim and BJP candidate Ratna Debnath defeated Trinamool Congress' Tirthankar Ghosh by 28,836 votes, with 87,977 electors of the Panihati assembly segment voting in her favour.
ADHIR RANJAN CHOWDHURY
Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury suffered a defeat in the hands of BJP's Subrata Maitra on Monday by a margin of 17,548 votes in his home turf of Baharampur in West Bengal's Murshidabad district.
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