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    Detailed perspectives on developments in South Asia​​

    248: Prospects for West Bengal in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections

    Ronojoy Sen, Senior Research Fellow, ISAS

    29 April 2014

    For over three decades beginning in 1977, West Bengal presented a fairly settled picture in terms of electoral politics. In election after election, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI[M])-led Left Front kept winning at the national, state and local levels. This began to change from 2008 onwards culminating in the defeat of the Left Front in the 2011 West Bengal state elections.