Editing Trinamool Congress (section)

=== In government ===
[[File:Mamata Banerjee - Kolkata 2011-12-08 7542 Cropped.JPG|alt=|thumb|[[Mamata Banerjee]], [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] and chairperson of All India Trinamool Congress]]
In the [[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], the TMC-led alliance that included the [[Indian National Congress|INC]] and [[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)|SUCI(C)]] won 227 seats in the 294-seat legislature, defeating the incumbent [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] government which had been in power for 34 years.<ref name="forbes">{{cite web|work=[[Forbes]]|title=The Anti-Communist of West Bengal|url=https://www.forbes.com/2011/04/14/forbes-india-trinamool-congress-didi-banerjee-at-gates.html#4b8299546c90|access-date=18 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bardhan|first=Pranab|date=11 February 2012|title=Why the Left Front Lost West Bengal: Poor Governance or Enhanced Accountability Standards?|url=https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bardhan-Et-Al-2012-Working-Paper.pdf|journal=International Growth Centre|volume=1|pages=41}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=13 May 2011|title=Mamata ends 34-year-old Left Front rule in Bengal|work=The Hindu Business Line|agency=PTI|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/policy/mamata-ends-34-year-old-left-front-rule-in-bengal/article23047550.ece|access-date=13 May 2011}}</ref> TMC alone won 184 seats, enabling it to govern without an alliance. Subsequently, it won a by-election in [[Basirhat]] and two Congress MLAs switched to the TMC, giving it a total of 187 seats. Banerjee, an [[Member of the Lok Sabha|MP]] at the time, had not contested the election and had to transfer to the safe seat of [[Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency|Bhabanipur]].<ref name="vidhansabha2011by">{{cite web|date=28 September 2011|title=Mamata Banerjee wins assembly bypoll|url=http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/current-affairs/mamata-banerjee-wins-assembly-bypoll_591641.html |access-date=28 September 2011|website=Moneycontrol}}</ref>

On 18 September 2012, Banerjee announced her decision to withdraw support to the [[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]] after the TMC's demands to undo government-instituted changes including [[Foreign direct investment|FDI]] in retail, increase in the price of diesel and limiting the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders for households, were not met.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rupee falls after TMC pulls out from government|url=http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/markets-business/-1978325.html|publisher=[[Moneycontrol.com]]|date=20 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mamata Banerjee's party ready to meet President tomorrow to officially quit UPA|url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/mamata-banerjees-party-ready-to-meet-president-tomorrow-to-officially-quit-upa-499796|work=NDTV|date=20 September 2012}}</ref>

The [[2014 Indian general election|2014 Lok Sabha elections]] saw the TMC dominate the state, winning 34 out of the 42 seats. It also qualified for national party status, as the TMC had received 6% of the vote from five different states ([[West Bengal]], [[Manipur]], [[Tripura]], [[Jharkhand]] and [[Assam]]).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/statistical_reportge2014.aspx/ | website=Election Commission of India | title=Archive of General Election 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318025154/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/statistical_reportge2014.aspx/ | archive-date=18 March 2015}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|date=2 September 2016|title=Trinamool Congress recognised as national party|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|agency=PTI|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Trinamool-Congress-recognised-as-national-party/article14620149.ece|url-access=subscription|access-date=6 December 2021|issn=0971-751X|quote=It is a recognised State party in West Bengal, Manipur, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, satisfying one of the conditions of the Election Commission.}}</ref> On 2 September 2016, the [[Election Commission of India|Election Commission]] recognised TMC as a national political party.<ref name=":3">{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/trinamool-congress-tmc-national-party-status-election-commission-3010274/|title=Trinamool Congress gets national party status|newspaper=Indian Express|date=2 September 2016}}</ref>

The party was reelected in the [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016 election]] to a supermajority government, and Banerjee continued as chief minister.<ref>{{cite news|date=20 May 2016|title=West Bengal Election Results 2016: TMC storms back to power in Bengal, Cong-Left alliance loses|newspaper=[[The Financial Express (India)|The Financial Express]]|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/west-bengal-election-results-2016-counting-begins-for-294-assembly-seats/259295/}}</ref>

The party won the most seats in West Bengal in the [[2019 Indian general election]], but suffered significant losses to the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], which for the first time established itself as a major force in the state.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bose|first=Pratim Ranjan|date=23 May 2019|title=Election results 2019: Bengal votes for the BJP, breaks many stereotypes|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/elections/election-results-2019-bengal-votes-for-the-bjpbreaks-many-stereotypes/article27216896.ece |access-date=6 December 2021|website=The Hindu BusinessLine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Chatterjee|first=Ahana|date=23 May 2019|title=WB Election Result Highlights: BJP creates history in Bengal|url=https://www.livemint.com/elections/lok-sabha-elections/west-bengal-results-2019-live-updates-mamata-banerjee-tmc-narendra-modi-bjp-1558573084174.html |access-date=6 December 2021|website=Livemint}}</ref> After the election, the party's status came under revision by the [[Election Commission of India]], due to a loss in presence in most states outside West Bengal.<ref>{{cite news |url =https://www.news18.com/news/politics/how-have-trinamool-cpi-ncp-failed-to-meet-national-party-status-while-npp-makes-it-an-explainer-2239173.html|title =Why Did TMC, CPI, NCP Fail to Meet National Party Status When NPP Made It? An Explainer|publisher =[[Network 18]]|quote =Due to several political developments over the past few years, the EC wants the three political parties to respond on why their 'national party' status should not be taken away.|location =Kolkata|date =20 July 2019|website =News18.com|author =Sujit Nath|access-date =11 May 2020}}</ref>

Banerjee's government was reelected again in the [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021 state election]] by an unexpectedly large margin over the BJP. Prior to the election, several high-profile TMC members such as [[Mukul Roy]] and [[Suvendu Adhikari]] had defected to the BJP. Despite the large winning margin, Banerjee was defeated by Adhikari in the [[Nandigram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nandigram seat]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Election Commission of India|url=https://results.eci.gov.in/Result2021/ConstituencywiseS25210.htm?ac=210|access-date=2 May 2021|website=results.eci.gov.in|archive-date=3 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503202328/https://results.eci.gov.in/Result2021/ConstituencywiseS25210.htm?ac=210|url-status=dead}}</ref> where she had transferred to fight Adhikari head-on.<ref name="theguardian">{{cite news|last1=Ellis-Petersen|first1=Hannah|last2=Rahman|first2=Shaikh Azizur|date=26 March 2021|title='India's soul at stake': Bengalis vote in divisive election|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/26/india-soul-at-stake-west-bengalis-vote-in-divisive-election-modi-bjp}}</ref>