For the 2019 Indian general election, the candidates for the Lok Sabha (lower house of the India parliament) of the Left Front are as follows:
# | Party | Seats Contested | Total Votes | Seats Won | % of votes |
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1 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 69 | 10,744,809 | 3 | 1.75% |
2 | Communist Party of India | 49 | 3,576,184 | 2 | 0.58% |
3 | All India Forward Bloc (in some states) | 36 | 323,951 | 0 | 0.05% |
4 | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (in 20 states & 3 UTs) | 114 | 405,002 | 0 | 0.07% |
5 | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (in some states) | 22 | 711,715 | 0 | 0.12% |
6 | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star (in some states) | 29 | 90,648 | 0 | 0.02% |
7 | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 6 | 709,685 | 1 | 0.12% |
8 | Marxist Communist Party of India (United) (Andhra Pradesh) | 6 | 21,045 | 0 | 0.01% |
9 | Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist) (Bihar) | 2 | 17,125 | 0 | 0.01 |
10 | Independents | 3 | 752,754 | 0 | 0.14% |
Total | 336 | 17,352,918 | 6 | 2.93% |
PC No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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5 | Anakapalli | None | P. S. Ajay Kumar | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
6 | Kakinada | None | Godugu Satyanarayana | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
9 | Naraspur | None | Gurugubilli Rambabu | Marxist Communist Party of India (United) | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
13 | Guntur | None | Mannava Hariprasad | Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
18 | Kurnool | None | K. Prabhakara Reddy | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
19 | Anantapur | None | Jagadeesh Devaragudi | Communist Party of India | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
21 | Kadapa | None | Gujjula Eswaraiah | Communist Party of India | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
22 | Nellore | None | Chandra Rajagopal | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
Source: CPI(M)'s Website and Communist Party's Website
PC No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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1 | Arunachal West | None | Jomin Nyokir Kara | All India Forward Bloc | 11 April 2019 |
PC No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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7 | Jhanjharpur | None | Surendra Prasad Suman | All India Forward Bloc | 23 April 2019 | Lost |
22 | Ujiarpur | None | Ajay Kumar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
24 | Begusarai | None | Kanhaiya Kumar | Communist Party of India | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
26 | Bhagalpur | None | Deepak Kumar | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 18 April 2019 | Lost |
28 | Munger | None | Uchit Kumar | Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist) | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
32 | Arrah | None | Raju Yadav | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 19 May 2019 | Lost |
40 | Jamui | None | Pankaj Kumar Das | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
PC No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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7 | Durg | None | Aatma Ram Sahu | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 23 April 2019 | Lost |
8 | Raipur | None | Devendra Kumar Patil | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 23 April 2019 | Lost |
9 | Mahasamund | None | Bhojlal Netam | Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star | 18 April 2019 | Lost |
10 | Bastar | ST | Ramu Ram Mourya | Communist Party of India | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
PC No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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1 | Rajmahal | ST | Gopin Soren | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 19 May 2019 | Lost |
2 | Dumka | ST | Senapati Murmu | Communist Party of India | 19 May 2019 | Lost |
4 | Chatra | None | Arjun Kumar | Communist Party of India | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
13 | Palamau | SC | Madan Ram | Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
14 | Hazaribagh | None | Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta | Communist Party of India | 6 May 2019 | Lost |
Source: CPI(M)'s Website and Communist Party's Website
PC No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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18 | Tiruppur | None | K. Subbarayan | Communist Party of India | 18 April 2019 | Won |
20 | Coimbatore | None | P. R. Natarajan | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 18 April 2019 | Won |
29 | Nagapattinam | None | M. Selvarasu | Communist Party of India | 18 April 2019 | Won |
32 | Madurai | None | S. Venkatesan | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 18 April 2019 | Won |
Source: First List CPI(M)'s Website and Communist Party's Website
PC No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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1 | Tripura East | ST | Jitendra Choudhury | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 23 April 2019 [2] | Lost |
2 | Tripura West | None | Sankar Prasad Datta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
Source: First List CPI(M)'s Website
PC No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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1 | Tehri Garhwal | None | Rajendra Purohit | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
2 | Garhwal | None | Mukesh Semwal | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
4 | Nainital–Udhamsingh Nagar | None | Kailash Pandey | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 11 April 2019 | Lost |
Source: CPI(M)'s Website
Source: CPI(M) West Bengal
Sl No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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1 | Bikaner | SC | Shopat Ram | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 6 May 2019 | Lost |
2 | Sikar | None | Amra Ram | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 6 May 2019 | Lost |
3 | Churu | None | Balwan Singh Poonia | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 6 May 2019 | Lost |
4 | Chittorgarh | SC | Radha Bhandari | Communist Party of India | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
5 | Ganganagar | SC | Revataram Naik | Communist Party of India | 6 May 2019 | Lost |
6 | Udaipur | ST | Ghanshyam Thayad | Communist Party of India | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
Sl No. | Constituency | Reserved | Candidate | Party | Polling Date | Result |
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1 | Dindori | ST | Jeeva Pandu Gavit | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
2 | Parbhani | None | Rajen Kshirsagar | Communist Party of India | 18 April 2019 | Lost |
3 | Shirdi | SC | Bansi Satupute | Communist Party of India | 29 April 2019 | Lost |
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