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ELECTIONS
Electoral Records

The CPI(M) has increased the popular votes polled in the elections to the Lok Sabha (Lower House of parliament) since its formation in 1964. In the last few elections, contesting on an average 15 percent of the total seats, the CPI(M) has been getting around 6 percent of the votes.

In the 1998 elections to the Lok Sabha the CPI(M) retained the  32 seats it held earlier. The Lower House of Parliament has a strength of 543. In the position of parties, the CPI(M) is the third  group in the Parliament. For the  1998 elections, the Left parties came out with a  Joint Election Manifesto.  In the (Rajya Sabha) Upper House the CPI(M) has 15 members. Vacancies to the Rajya Sabha are filled every six years. The members of the elected assemblies in the states constitute the electoral college for election to the Rajya Sabha. State Assemblies

The CPI(M) has emerged as the single largest political party in three states of West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura. It is leading the state governments in these states. In West Bengal it has been in office for more than twenty years winning elections for five consecutive terms from 1977 onwards.

Though the electoral presence of the CPI(M) is uneven, it has representations in a number of state assemblies.

Present Strength in State Assemblies(1997)  

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