Electoral history of the Communist Party of India

The Communist Party of India (abbreviated as CPI) is a political party in India. Since independence, CPI has participated in elections.

1946 provincial assembly elections

The CPI had presented 108 candidates in the 1946 Indian provincial elections, out of whom 8 were elected. ^[1] The meagre result was related to the decision of the party not to support the Quit India movement of 1942. ^[2] Seven out of the eight seats it won were reserved for labour representatives. All in all, the Communist Party obtained 2.5% of the popular vote. Albeit far from competing with the two main parties (Indian National Congress and All India Muslim League), the communists became the third force in terms of the popular vote. ^[1] Amongst the communist candidates elected were Jyoti Basu (railways constituency in Bengal), Ratanlal Brahmin (Darjeeling) and Rupnarayan Ray (Dinajpur). ^[3]

General election results

Lok Sabha

Year	Legislature	Total Lok Sabha constituencies	Seats won / Seats Contested	Change in seats	Total Votes	Percentage of votes	Change in vote %	Reference
1951–52	1st Lok Sabha	489	16 / 49	New	3,487,401	3.29%	New	[4]
1957	2nd Lok Sabha	494	27 / 110	11	10,754,075	8.92%	5.63%	[5]
1962	3rd Lok Sabha	494	29 / 137	2	11,450,037	9.94%	1.02%	[6]
1967	4th Lok Sabha	520	23 / 109	6	7,458,396	5.11%	4.83%	[7]
1971	5th Lok Sabha	518	23 / 87		6,933,627	4.73%	0.38%	[8]
1977	6th Lok Sabha	542	7 / 91	16	5,322,088	2.82%	1.91%	[9]
1980	7th Lok Sabha	529(542*)	10 / 47	3	4,927,342	2.49%	0.33%	[10]
1984	8th Lok Sabha	541	6 / 61	4	6,363,430	2.71%	0.22%	[11] [12]
1989	9th Lok Sabha	529	12 / 50	6	7,734,697	2.57%	0.14%	[13]
1991	10th Lok Sabha	534	14 / 42	2	6,851,114	2.49%	0.08%	[14] [15]
1996	11th Lok Sabha	543	12 / 43	2	6,582,263	1.97%	0.52%	[16]
1998	12th Lok Sabha	543	9 / 58	3	6,429,569	1.75%	0.22%	[17]
1999	13th Lok Sabha	543	4 / 54	5	5,395,119	1.48%	0.27%	[18]
2004	14th Lok Sabha	543	10 / 34	6	5,484,111	1.41%	0.07%	[19]
2009	15th Lok Sabha	543	4 / 56	6	5,951,888	1.43%	0.02%	[20]
2014	16th Lok Sabha	543	1 / 67	3	4,327,460	0.79%	0.64%	[21]
2019	17th Lok Sabha	543	2 / 49	1	3,576,184	0.59%	0.20%	[22]
2024	18th Lok Sabha	543	2 / 30		3,132,683	0.49%	0.10%	[23]

All time-CPI Lok Sabha seat count

State Legislative assembly results

Year	State	Total assembly seats	Seats won / Seats contested	Change in seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
2023	Telangana	119	1 / 1	1	80,336	0.34	0.07
	Chhattisgarh	90	0 / 3		6,594	0.04
2022	Uttar Pradesh	403	0 / 35		64,011	0.07%	0.09%
	Uttarakhand	70	0 / 4		2,325	0.04%
	Manipur	60	0 / 2		1,032	0.06%	0.68%
	Himachal Pradesh	68	0 / 1		627	0.01%	0.03%
	Punjab	117	0 / 7		7,440	0.05%
	Gujarat	182	0 / 3		2,688	0.01%	0.01%
2021	Assam	126	0 / 1		27,290	0.84%	0.14%
	Kerala	140	17 / 23	2	1,579,235	7.58%	0.54%
	Puducherry	30	0 / 1		7,522	0.90%	0.2%
	Tamil Nadu	234	2 / 6	2	504,537	1.09%	0.3%
	West Bengal	294	0 / 10	1	118,655	0.20%	1.25%
2020	Bihar	243	2 / 6	2	349,489	0.83%	0.57%
2019	Andhra Pradesh	175	0 / 7		34,746	0.11%	—
	Jharkhand	81	0 / 18		68,589	0.46%	0.43%
	Maharashtra	288	0 / 16		35,188	0.06%	0.07%
	Odisha	147	0 / 3		29,235	0.12%	0.39%
2018	Chhattisgarh	90	0 / 7		48,255	0.34%	0.32%
	Rajasthan	200	0 / 16		42,820	0.12%	0.06%
	Tripura	60	0 / 1	1	19,352	0.82%	0.85%

• N/A indicates Not Available
•   indicates in government or in Coalition government

Results from the Election Commission of India website. Results do not deal with partitions of states, defections and by-elections during the mandate period.

See also

• Electoral history of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Electoral history of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• Electoral history of the Indian National Congress

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