FBAll India Forward BlocState partyFBL
Contested 10 general elections between 1967 and 1999, winning 25 Lok Sabha seats from 123 candidacies. 211 assembly seats won in 15 states.
Lok Sabha overall · since 1967
10
Elections contested
25
Seats won, all time
3
Best result (1977)
0.4%
Avg. vote share
123 candidacies fielded in total
Latest (1999)
2
15 contested · 0.35% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
20.3%
seats won per seat contested
Seats won
Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha
Results Overview
- Won25 (20%)
- Lost98 (80%)
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 3 seats in 1977, on 0.34% of the national vote.
- At the 1999 election it contested 15 seats and won 2, a 13% strike rate.
- Strongest constituency is PURULIA, West Bengal, won 8 times, most recently in 1999.
- Holds a state assembly record in 15 states, with 211 assembly seats won overall.
Totals
Across 10 general elections the party has polled 1.05 cr votes and lost 87 deposits. It has won 211 assembly seats across 71 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/fbl.
