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The '''United Left Election Committee''' was an electoral alliance in [[West Bengal]], [[India]], formed ahead of the 1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. The Committee consisted of the [[Communist Party of India]], the [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]], the [[Praja Socialist Party]], the [[All India Forward Bloc]] and the [[Marxist Forward Bloc]]. The formation of the electoral alliance was announced at a mass meeting at [[Shaheed Minar, Dhaka|Shahid Minar]] in January 1957.<ref>M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. ''Communist Parties and United Front - Experience in Kerala and West Bengal''. [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 216.</ref>

The front gained 33.6% of the votes in the state and 80 out of 196 seats in Assembly.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Party
!Candidates
!Seats won
!% of votes
|-
|CPI
|103
|46
|17.82%
|-
|PSP
|67
|21
|9.85%
|-
|AIFB
|22
|8
|3.84%
|-
|RSP
|7
|3
|1.24%
|-
|MFB
|?
|2
|0.85%
|}
<ref>M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. ''Communist Parties and United Front - Experience in Kerala and West Bengal''. [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 217.</ref>

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[[Category:1957 establishments in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Defunct political parties in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Defunct political party alliances in India]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1957]]
[[Category:Political parties with year of disestablishment missing]]

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