Pratyay and Srinjoy discusses Bengal Assembly Election 2021 with stats, anecdotes and perceptions.

A few relevant links:

• Statistical afternotes (https://thewire.in/politics/statistical-afternotes-tmc-may-have-won-bengal-but-bjp-did-not-do-badly)

• Some interesting stats (https://www.thehindu.com/data/data-assembly-election-2021-trinamool-congress-wins-third-straight-term-in-west-bengal/article34491637.ece)

• How women voted (https://www.thehindu.com/elections/west-bengal-assembly/women-rally-behind-trinamool-finds-csds-lokniti-survey/article34494083.ece)

• On Left Front’s poor performance (https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/a-self-destructive-consensus-explains-the-cpi-m-s-west-bengal-disaster-101620206604074.html)

• A comparison between Bengal and Assam elections (https://www.livemint.com/elections/assembly-elections/how-bengal-bucked-the-saffron-surge-11620142207250.html)

• Analyzing the new Bengal assembly (https://scroll.in/article/994172/the-new-bengal-assembly-in-28-charts-fewer-muslims-more-scheduled-caste-mlas-and-not-much-youth)

• Strategy for economic reform in Bengal, a paper written in 2002 by Abhijit Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Kaushik Basu et al. (https://www.rrcee.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/339_Strategy_for_Economic_Reform_in_West_Bengal.pdf)