CPCommunist Party of IndiaState partyCPI
Contested 16 general elections between 1962 and 2024, winning 168 Lok Sabha seats from 1,021 candidacies. 1,140 assembly seats won in 33 states.
Lok Sabha overall · since 1962
16
Elections contested
168
Seats won, all time
29
Best result (1962)
2.7%
Avg. vote share
1,021 candidacies fielded in total
Latest (2024)
2
30 contested · 0.49% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
16.5%
seats won per seat contested
Seats won
Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha
Results Overview
- Won168 (16%)
- Lost853 (84%)
National vote share
Share of all valid votes cast in India, not of seats contested
A regional party fighting 40 seats out of 543 is capped at a low national share however well it does. Read this line against the seats chart above, not on its own.
Key highlights
- Best-ever result was 29 seats in 1962, on 9.94% of the national vote.
- At the 2024 election it contested 30 seats and won 2, a 7% strike rate.
- Strongest constituency is MIDNAPORE, West Bengal, won 8 times, most recently in 2004.
- Holds a state assembly record in 33 states, with 1,140 assembly seats won overall.
Totals
Across 16 general elections the party has polled 9.84 cr votes and lost 536 deposits. It has won 1,140 assembly seats across 330 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/cpi.
