Breaking the Red citadel, Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress ended the 34-year hegemony of the Left Front in West Bengal, while Jayalalithaa's AIADMK scored a landslide victory to oust DMK from power in Tamil Nadu as results of the assembly elections were out today.

Congress scored a spectacular hattrick in Assam bagging a near two-third majority to retain power and managed to wrest power from the Left Democratic Front in Kerala by a wafer-thin majority but lost Puducherry to its rebel.

Riding a wave of change in a state where Left ideology ruled the roost for over three decades, Banerjee along with allies Congress and SUCI gave a severe trashing to the Left Front. The Banerjee-led alliance was set to capture over two-thirds majority by winning over 225 seats in the 294 seat assembly. Banerjee, Railway Minister at the Centre, did not contest the elections.

Trinamool Congress has won 142 seats and was leading in 44 more seats, while Congress has bagged 36 and was ahead in five. On the rival side, the CPI(M), which headed the Left Front, has won 32 seats and was ahead in eight seats.

The CPI(M) suffered humiliation when a number of its bigwigs, including Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, bit the dust. Shortly after defeat, Bhattacharjee resigned.

With defeats in West Bengal and Kerala, the Left will have power only in Tripura.

Tamil Nadu lived up to its 'winner takes all' reputation as Jayalalithaa swept back to power with a landslide victory with her alliance set to cross the 200 mark in the 234-member assembly.

AIADMK on its own is set to get 150 seats. The party has won 73 seat and was leading in another 77 seats.

The DMK has won 10 seats and was ahead in 13, while ally Congress which contested 63 seats could manage only four wins and was leading in one. State Congress President K V Thangkabalu was trailing by over 30,000 votes in Mylapore in Chennai.

The leads at 8pm

WEST BENGAL [294]

Left 4 (Won 58)

TMC+Cong+Allies 13 (Won 213)

TAMIL NADU [234]

DMK+Cong+Allies 14 (Won 17)

AIADMK+Allies 69 (Won 134)

ASSAM [126]

AGP 0 (Won 11)

Congress 0 (Won 76)

BJP (Won 4)

KERALA [140]

LDF 0 (won 68)

UDF 0 (won 72)

PUDUCHERRY [30]

DMK+Cong+Allies 0 (won 10)

AIADMK+ allies 0 (Won 20)