All the 42 Lok Sabha seats were contested by the Left Front. The CPI(M) fielded candidates in 32 seats. The CPI and the Forward Block and 3 candidates each and the RSP has its nominee in 4 constituencies. The CPI(M) won 21 seats, the CPI and Forward Bloc got 3 and 2 seats respectively. The RSP also got 3 seats. In the 1998 Lok Sabha election, the Left Front bagged 33 seats. In terms of numbers, the Front got 4 seats less than last year.

The Left Front Chairman, Sailen Dasgupta and the CPI(M) State Committee Secretary Anil Biswas have congratulated the people for the significant victory of the Front candidates in the Lok Sabha election this year.

The polling figures show that the winning candidates of the Left Front in eight constituencies increased their margin of victory compared with the one of the last year. On the other hand the Front candidates got defeated by a small margin in a few seats. Nikhilanda Sar of the CPI(M) won the Burdwan Lok Sabha seat by the highest margin of 3.01 lakh votes defeating the BJP candidate Mr. Anup Mukherjee. The Trinamul Congress retained six or the seven it had won last year. It got two more laking he tally to 8.

Even the poll results have been somewhat unsatisfactory for the Left Front in Calcutta, has the Left Front successfully retained its hold among the working class in the industrial suburbs of the city Shamik Lahiri of the CPI(M) won in the Diamond Harbour constituency, Mr. Tarit Topdar retained the Barrackpore seat again. The constituency spreads over industrial suburbs of Calcutta. Howrah is also basically a constituency interspersed with innumreable industrial units. Swades Chakravarti of the CPI(M) won it the waiting the onslaught of the Trinamul Congress candidate. The seat was wrested by the CPI(M) from the Trinamul Congress this year. Rupchand Paul of the CPI(M) won the Hooghly seat which is also an industrial area Pal bagged the seat consecutively for five times. Pal had won the Hooghly seat in 1980 too. The Burdwan and Asansol seats, both industrial and colliery areas, again returned CPI(M) candidates. Again CPI(M) candidates in Durgapur and Haldia have won CPI(M).

However, the Trinamul Congress increased their last year's tally of 7 seats to 8 this year. The BJP got two seats one more than last year. The Congress in the 1998 election had to be statise with the one seat of Malda won by Mr. A.B.A. Gahani Khan Chowdhury. This year the congress nominees won a total of 3 seats. Besides Mr. Khan Chowdhury in Malda, Mr. Priyaranjan Dasmunshi bagged the Raiganj seat in North Dinajpur and Mr. Adhir Chowdhury romped home in Berhampore. The RSP had won in Berhampore last year. The Raiganj seat was won by Subrata Mukherjee of the CPI(M) in 1998.

The Trinamul-BJP combine got altogether 10 seats contesting all the 42 Lok Sabha seats-two more than last year's.