In the first major test of popularity, Trinamool Congress today won the elections to three civic bodies and was leading in another while Congress and Left Front major CPI(M) bagged one each in West Bengal. The polls to six civic bodies were the first major local elections after the 2011 Assembly polls when Mamata Banerjee's party had stormed to power ending the Left Front's 34-year rule.

Trinamool won in Left citadel Dhupguri, Panskura andNalhati and was leading in the industrial township in Durgapur, officials said. But Trinamool suffered a setback in the municipality of Haldia, a key industrial town, where the Left Front captured 15 out of 26 wards. The remaining 11 seats went to Banerjee's
party, they said.