In Budge Budge, Mahestala, Garden Reach, Howrah, Hooghly, Barrackpore, Durgapur, Asansol, Haldia. Hadia the workers and their families have come out in large numbers to vote for the Left Front candidates. It is something very unique when the BJP-led government is planning to close down 70 collieries in the State with eight public sector undertaking, the workers have unflinchingly supported the Front candidates in the hustings. In 8 out of 10 Lok Sabha seats where there are major concentrations of the working class, the Left Front candidates have won defeating their rivals of the BJP, or the Trinamul Congress or the Congress candidates. Front candidates have won in Barrackpore, Durgapur, Assansol, Tamluk, Howrah, Uluberia, Diamond Harbour and Hooghly and Haldia.

Not only this, the Howrah Lok Sabha seat which is spread over a alrge industrial area, has been wrested by the CPI(M) from the Trinamul Congress. This year big dailies even campaigned to say that the workers would vote against the Left Front this year. Their forecasts have all gone wrong. When the Haldia petro-chemicals complex is about to be commissioned commercially very soon, these newspaper even termed the complex as a high-sounding nothing. One thing more to be mentioned is that not only the industrial surbrds of Calcutta in most of the seats helped the in the victory of the Front candidates they also ensured a higher margin of victory for the Front candidates than the one of the last year.