| 2021 | Mamata Banerjee successfully led TMC to a tremendous victory, for 3rd time in a row in the West Bengal Assembly elections but lost the election from Nandigram constituency to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, once a close aide of the TMC chief. |
| 2016 | Became Chief Minister of West Bengal for a second term, as the TMC alone won 211 seats against a Left-Congress alliance |
| 2012 | Mamata withdrew support from the UPA. |
| 2011 | Became the 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal, as a TMC-Congress alliance won 227 of the 294 seats, bringing down a 34-year Left Front rule in the state |
| 2009 | Just before the Lok Sabha elections, she joined the Congress led UPA and won. Mamata registered her fifth consecutive victory from Kolkata Dakshin and was inducted in cabinet as Railway Minister This was her second term as Railway Minister |
| 2006 | Mamata called Banerjee a major strike against the proposed Tata Motors car project. Trinamool Congress MLAs protested inside the assembly by damaging furniture and microphones. |
| 2006 | On 4 August 2006, During the Lok Sabha proceedings, Mamata hurled her resignation papers at the deputy speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal. |
| 2006 | After losing the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, Mamata started giving more focus to her party. |
| 2005 | Mamata protested against the forceful land acquisition by the West Bengal government More than a lakh farmers were with Mamata |
| 2004 | Mamata defeated Rabin Deb and retain her seat. |
| 1999 | Mamata’s TMC joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and she became the Union Railway Minister She presented her first Railway Budget. She introduced 19 new trains for the FY 2000-2001. |
| 1999 | Mamata again won from Kolkata Dakshin. This time she defeated Subhankar Chakraborty for CPI(M). |
| 1998 | In the 1998 General Election, Mamata’s vote share increased to 59% She won by 224,081 votes against Prasanta Kumar Sur of CPI (M) from the same seat |
| 1997 | Mamata left the Congress Party and established All India Trinamool Congress, commonly known as TMC or Trinamool Congress Soon her party became the primary opposition party in the eastern state. |
| 1996 | Mamata retained her Kolkata Dakshin seat This time, she won by 103,261 votes. She defeated Bharti Mukherjee of CPI (M). |
| 1991 | Mamata was made the Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Women and Child Development during PV Narshimha Rao’s government Later she was discharged of her portfolios in 1993 |
| 1991 | Mamata was re-elected to Lok Sabha This time she won from Kolkata Dakshin She got 3,67,896 votes, which was around 52 percent of total votes. |
| 1989 | During the 1989 Lok Sabha Election, Mamata lost the Jadavpur seat because of the anti-Congress wave in West Bengal. |
| 1984 | In mid of the year 1984, she was appointed as the general secretary of the Indian Youth Congress. |
| 1984 | She won her first Lok Sabha election by defeating Communist stalwart Somnath Chatterjee from Jadavpur Lok Sabha Constituency. Mamata became one of the youngest parliamentarians. |
| 1976 | She became General Secretary of the Mahila Congress in West Bengal. She served this post for around four years. |
| 1974 | Mamata began her political career with the district unit of the Congress party. |
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