India is a bastion for socialist parties. Almost all the parties profess welfare schemes, freebie culture etc. as a part of electoral politics. Even the ruling Bharatiya janata party, which is considered as a right wing party, gives free groceries to poor people in one of its ruling states as a tactic to fight left wing terrorism. However, some parties have stated their ideology as left oriented and most of them have formed a political block called "Left Front" in the states of West /bengal from 1977 and in Tripura also from 1993.
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List of parties
Lok Sabha election tally
* : 12 seats in Assam and 1 in Meghalaya did not vote.
References
Performance of Left Front in Indian General Elections Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA