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 .[1]

Pre-poll alliances

State-level alliances

National-level alliances

National Parties

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 (politician) NDA
0 / 20
2 / 9
0 / 140
Aam Aadmi Party Centre 26 November 2012 Arvind Kejriwal P. C. Cyriac PWA
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

55 recognised state parties[5]
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		 1999 Sharad Pawar PC Chacko LDF
0 / 20
0 / 9
2 / 140
Kerala Congress (M) Welfare[6]
Democratic socialism[7]		 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 / 120
Indian Union Muslim League Centre-right[8] 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[9]
Revolutionary socialism		 1940 Manoj Bhattacharya[10] A. A. Aziz UDF
1 / 20
0 / 9
0 / 140

Major Regional Parties

Party Name Party Leader
INL A P Arun Vahab
NSC P T A Rahim
CS Kadannappalli Ramachandran
KCB K B Ganesh Kumar
JKC K C Joseph
RSPL Kovoor Kunjumon
KC P. J. Joseph
NCK Mani C Kappan
KCJ Anoop Jacob
RMPI N Venu
CMPJ C P John

References

  1. ↑ Menon, A. Sreedhara (2007). A Survey of Kerala History. DC Books. ISBN 9788126415786.
  2. ↑ "LDF wins 99 of 140 seats in Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan to be CM again". The News Minute. 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  3. ↑ Staff Writer (2021-03-08). "'New Kerala with Modi': NDA unveils campaign slogan ahead of assembly polls". mint. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  4. ↑ "In Kerala, UDF workers lay siege to State, Central offices". The Hindu. 2021-09-20. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ "KM Mani: The man behind the 'Theory of the Toiling Class'". The New Indian Express. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "K M Mani honoured at British Parliament Hall". The New Indian Express. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "A coloured scheme of things". Archived from the original on Jul 19, 2023.
  9. ↑ Bidyut Chakrabarty (2014). Communism in India: Events, Processes and Ideologies. Oxford University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-19-997489-4.
  10. ↑ "Indian citizenship act against humanity: Manoj Bhattacharya". prothomalo.com. March 2020.
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