In the recently concluded Bihar Assembly elections, both the Communist parties namely, Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM) secured a vote of less than 1% falling behind vote share of NOTA (None Of The Above).
The CPI got 349,489 votes and the CPIM got 274,155 votes grabbing a meagre 0.83% and 0.65% of the pie. Both these parties managed to get 2 seats each, with the former contesting in 6 seats and the latter in 4 seats.
On the other hand NOTA received 7,06,252 votes i.e., 1.68% of the vote share.
However, Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninst (Revolution) working in the margins of the mainstream politics won in 12 seats of the 19 seats it contested. In the 2015 assembly election, the CPI(ML) had bagged three seats.
The NDA coalition comprising of the two major parties BJP and JD(U) is set to form the next government.