New Delhi, May 24 -- Mamata Banerjee's experience in 2019 elections can be compared to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s in the 2017 Gujarat assembly elections. The BJP's vote share increased from 47.9% to 50% between the 2012 and 2017 Gujarat assembly elections. But its seat tally went down from 115 to 99. Between 2014 and 2019, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) has actually increased its vote share in the Lok Sabha elections in the state by around 3.5 percentage points. Despite this, AITC's seats have come down by 12 between 2014 and 2019. To be sure, the increase in headline vote share numbers does not mean that the AITC has increased its vote share across the state....