Siliguri, May 11: Trinamul Chhatra Parishad won the students' union elections at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital today by winning 17 out of the 18 seats.

Candidates of TMCP and All India Democratic Students' Organisation, the students' wing of SUCI, contested the polls held today.

"We have emerged victorious by bagging 17 out of 18 seats today. Of the total seats, we had already won uncontested in 10 and elections were held only in eight seats today. The candidates will formally take charge on the day which would be fixed by the college," said Sukhdeb Mondal, the secretary of Trinamul-backed Progressive Junior Doctors' Association.

Dipak Giri, a leader of AIDSO at NBMCH, said they had won one seat.

Election to the students' body was last held on April 2012. TMCP had won the election in all the 18 seats then, ousting the SFI, which had controlled the union for more than 20 years. The tenure of the TMCP-backed union was over after a year in 2013.

However, elections were not held after that because the state government had announced a state-wide suspension of students' unions elections in all educational institutions as there were clashes in colleges during such polls in 2012.

In November last year, the state revoked the suspension.