Performance of Left Front in Indian General Elections

India is a bastion for socialist parties. Almost all the parties profess welfare schemes, freebie culture etc. as a part of electoral politics. Even the ruling Bharatiya janata party, which is considered as a right wing party, gives free groceries to poor people in one of its ruling states as a tactic to fight left wing [...]. However, some parties have stated their ideology as left oriented and most of them have formed a political block called "Left Front" in the states of West /bengal from 1977 and in Tripura also from 1993.

List of parties

• Communist Party of India (Marxist)=4(2014)
• Communist Party of India
• All India Forward Bloc

References

1. Indian general election, 2014
2. Indian general election, 2009
3. Indian general election, 2004
4. Indian general election, 2009
5. Indian general election, 1999
6. Indian general election, 1998
7. Indian general election, 1996
8. Indian general election, 1991
9. Indian general election, 1989
10. Indian general election, 1984
11. Indian general election, 1977
12. Indian general election, 1971
13. Indian general election, 1980
14. Indian general election, 1967
15. Indian general election, 1962
16. Indian general election, 1957
17. Indian general election, 1952