Big reversal of seats in Kerala exit poll, United Democratic Front ahead with 78-90 seats out of 140, big blow to Left

Kerala is the only state in South India where a Left-led government has been in power for the last ten years. According to exit polls, the Left may face defeat, while the UDF looks set to return to power.

If these exit poll projections turn into actual results, will India "leftism free" Will be done? Exit poll results for Kerala Assembly elections have started coming. Kerala was the only remaining bastion of Leftism in India, a fort which now seems to be crumbling after a decade.

According to exit polls, the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF has suffered a major setback, while the Congress-led UDF looks set to return to power after ten years.

Voting for the state’s 140 assembly seats was held in a single phase on April 9, and 71 are needed to form the government. According to exit poll surveys, projections suggest that the Left will be out of power and the Congress will return.

UDF, which spent ten years from power "exile" Has endured, now seems ready to form government with full majority. According to Axis My India, UDF is expected to get 78 to 90 assembly seats, while LDF is expected to win only 55 seats.

UDF is expected to get 44 percent vote share, while LDF’s figure is expected to be 39 percent. This time, BJP and other parties together are expected to get a total vote share of 14 percent.

Estimated number of seats:

UDF: 78 to 90 seats
LDF: 49 to 55 seats
BJP: 0 to 3 seats

Estimate of vote share

UDF: 44 percent
LDF: 39 percent
BJP and others: 14 percent

What will be left-free India?

If the actual results on May 4 prove the exit polls correct, then the Left’s ouster from power in Kerala will not just be a defeat but a huge political setback. For the first time in 73 years, there will be no Left Front government in any state of India.

The irony is that the country "left-free" Congress has done the work of creating a party which for years stood shoulder to shoulder with the Left, even at the Centre. After independence, the leftists first formed the government in Kerala in 1957, after this, leftist governments were formed in Bengal in 1977 and later in Tripura. The Left was ousted from power in Bengal in 2011, and then in Tripura in 2018.