CPM’s vote share dwindling in its bastions

All the three states,ruled by the Marxists,have witnessed decline in the percentage of polling for the party,leading to its tally going down from 43 in 2004 to 16 this year.

The percentages of vote share by CPI(M) in West Bengal,Kerala and Tripura are 33.1,30.48 and 61.69 respectively.

The vote share in these states in the last elections was 38.57 per cent,31,52 per cent and 68.8 per cent in West Bengal,Kerala and Tripura respectively.

In West Bengal,Trinamool Congress,which got 21.04 per cent votes in 2004,increased its share to 31.17 per cent.

The vote share of both Congress and BJP also declined in West Bengal from 14. 56 per cent and 8.06 per cent to 13.45 per cent and 6.14 per cent respectively.

As CPI(M)’s vote share went down in Kerala,Congress increased its share from 32.13 per cent to 40.13 per cent.

BJP’s share also went down from 10.38 per cent to 6.31 per cent this year.