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Political parties in Kerala

Summary

Kerala's major political parties are aligned under two coalitions, namely the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) since the late 1970s. Kerala was the first Indian state to have coalition government as early as 1961 .[3]

Kerala Legislative Assembly

Keralam Niyamasabha
Structure
Political groups
Government (98)
  LDF (98)

Opposition (41)

  UDF (41)

Vacant (1)

  Vacant (1)[2]

Pre-poll alliances edit

State-level alliances edit

The Left Democratic Front (LDF), also known as Left Front (Kerala), is an alliance of left-wing political parties in the state of Kerala, India. It is the current ruling political alliance of Kerala, since 2016.[5] It is one of the two major political alliances in Kerala, the other being Indian National Congress-led United Democratic Front, each of which has been in power alternately for the last four decades.[6] LDF has won the elections to the State Legislature of Kerala in the years 1980,[7] 1987,[8] 1996,[9] 2006,[10] 2016[11] and had a historic re-election in 2021[12] where an incumbent government was re-elected for first time in 40 years.[13] LDF has won 6 out of 10 elections since the formation of the alliance in 1980. The alliance consists of CPI(M), CPI and various smaller parties.[14]

LDF has been in power in the State Legislature of Kerala under E. K. Nayanar (1980–1981, 1987–1991, 1996–2001),[15] V. S. Achuthanandan (2006–2011),[16] Pinarayi Vijayan (2016–current).[17] E. K. Nayanar served as the Chief Minister of Kerala for 11 years and later became the longest serving Chief Minister of Kerala.[18]

The alliance led by Pinarayi Vijayan returned to power in 2016 Assembly Election winning 91 out of 140 seats and further increasing its tally to 99 seats in the 2021 Assembly Election. Pinarayi Vijayan became the first Chief minister of Kerala to be re-elected after completing a full term (five years) in office after a historic election in 2021 where an incumbent government was re-elected for the first time in 40 years.[19]

The United Democratic Front (UDF) is the Indian National Congress-led alliance of centre to centre-right political parties in the Indian state of Kerala.[21] It is one of the two major political alliances in Kerala, the other being Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front, each of which has been in power alternately since 1980 E. K. Nayanar ministry.[22] Most of the United Democratic Front constituents are members of the Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance at pan-India level.

United Democratic Front was created by the Indian National Congress (then known as Congress-Indira) party leader K. Karunakaran in 1979, as a successor to the existing Congress-led alliance.[23] The alliance first came to power in 1981 (K. Karunakaran ministry) and has won elections to the state legislature of Kerala in the years 1982 (Karunakaran ministry),[24] 1991 (Karunakaran and A. K. Antony ministries),[25] 2001 (Antony and Oommen Chandy ministries),[26] and 2011 (Oommen Chandy ministry).[27] The alliance currently acts as the opposition in the state legislature of Kerala (after the 2021 legislative assembly election). United Democratic Front leaders V. D. Satheesan and K. Sudhakaran currently serves as the Leader of the Opposition and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee President respectively.[28]

The alliance currently consists of Indian National Congress, Indian Union Muslim League, Kerala Congress (Joseph), Kerala Congress (Jacob), Revolutionary Socialist Party and a variety of other smaller parties. The alliance follows big tent policy and includes a variety political parties.

  • National Democratic Alliance[29]

National-level alliances edit

National Parties edit

Political party Flag Electoral symbol Political position Founded Founder KL unit leader Alliance Seats
Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Kerala Legislative Assembly
Communist Party of India (Marxist)     Left-wing 7 November 1964 E. M. S. Namboodiripad M. V. Govindan LDF
1 / 20
4 / 9
62 / 120
Indian National Congress     Centre to Centre-left 28 December 1885 Allan Octavian Hume K. Sudhakaran UDF
15 / 20
1 / 9
21 / 140
Bharatiya Janata Party     Right-wing 6 April 1980 Atal Bihari Vajpayee K. Surendran NDA
0 / 20
0 / 9
0 / 140
Aam Aadmi Party     Centre 26 November 2012 Arvind Kejriwal P. C. Cyriac N/A
0 / 20
0 / 9
0 / 140
Bahujan Samaj Party     Centre 14 April 1984 Kanshi Ram Advocate Pralhadan N/A
0 / 20
0 / 9
0 / 140

State Parties edit

55 recognised state parties[citation needed]
Party Flag Election
symbol 		Political
position 		Ideology Founded Leader(s) Kerala Unit Leader Alliance Seats
Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha State
assemblies
Communist Party of India     Left-wing Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-capitalism
Socialism
Secularism 		1925 D. Raja Kanam Rajendran LDF
0 / 20
2 / 9
17 / 140
Nationalist Congress Party     Centre Indian nationalism
Secularism 		2024 Sharad Pawar PC Chacko LDF
0 / 20
0 / 9
2 / 140
Kerala Congress (M)     Centre-Right Welfare[30]
Democratic socialism[31] 		1979 Jose K. Mani Jose K. Mani LDF
1 / 20
1 / 9
5 / 140
Janata Dal (Secular)     Centre-left to left-wing Secularism 1999 H. D. Deve Gowda Mathew T. Thomas LDF
0 / 20
0 / 9
2 / 140
Rashtriya Janata Dal     Centre-left Socialism 1997 Lalu Prasad Yadav
Tejashwi Yadav 		Adv. John John LDF
0 / 20
0 / 9
1 / 140
Indian Union Muslim League     Centre-right[32] Muslim interests
Social conservatism 		1948 Hyderali Shihab Thangal Sadiq Ali Thangal UDF
2 / 20
1 / 9
15 / 140
Revolutionary Socialist Party     Far-left Communism
Marxism–Leninism[33]
Revolutionary socialism 		1940 Manoj Bhattacharya[34] A. A. Aziz UDF
1 / 20
0 / 9
0 / 140
Indian National League   Secularism 1994 Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait Ahamed Devarkovil LDF
0 / 20
0 / 9
1 / 140

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