India's Left parties have lost their last remaining state government, marking the first time in over 50 years that no communist-led administration holds power anywhere in the country. In Kerala (a southwestern state long regarded as a stronghold of Indian communist politics), the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) secured roughly three-quarters of assembly seats, winning 102 of 140 constituencies with 46.55% of the vote — its strongest performance since 2001 — while the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) collapsed to just 35 seats and 37.34% of the vote, its worst result in more than four decades. The CPI(M) has begun an internal review of the defeat, with analysts pointing to organisational complacency and ideological drift as contributing factors, underscored by the defection of veteran communist figure G. Sudhakaran, who won his seat as an independent with UDF backing after ending a six-decade association with the party.