Editing Left Democratic Front (section)

=== Left Democratic Front (1980–present) ===
[[File:Kerala Council of Ministers 1987 EK Nayanar.jpg|thumb|left|420x420px|[[Second E. K. Nayanar ministry|2nd Nayanar Ministry (1987)]]]]
LDF first came into power in [[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980 election]] under the leadership of [[E. K. Nayanar]] sworn in as the [[Chief Minister of Kerala]] on 26 March 1980<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=History of Kerala legislature – Government of Kerala, India |url=https://kerala.gov.in/history-of-kerala-legislature |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814235820/https://kerala.gov.in/history-of-kerala-legislature |archive-date=14 August 2020 |access-date=2019-05-26 |website=kerala.gov.in |ref=history-of-kerala-legislature}}</ref> for the first time in 1980. He formed government with the support of [[Congress (A)]] under [[A. K. Antony]] and [[Kerala Congress]] under [[K. M. Mani]], Nayanar later became the longest serving [[Chief Minister of Kerala]], ever since [[1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1980 election]], the power has been clearly alternating between the two alliances till the [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]].<ref name="UN1" /> LDF has won 6 out of 10 elections since the formation of the alliance in 1980. Since 1980, none of alliances in Kerala has been re-elected till the [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016]]. The [[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1987]], [[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|1996]] elections led [[E. K. Nayanar]], and the [[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006]] elections led by [[V. S. Achuthanandan]] formed governments and completed their full terms but were not re-elected.  In 2016, LDF won the [[2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2016 election]] led by [[Pinarayi Vijayan]] and had a historic re-election in [[2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2021 election]] where an incumbent government was re-elected for first time in 40 years. [[Pinarayi Vijayan]] is the first [[Chief minister of Kerala]] to be re-elected after completing a full term (five years) in office.<ref name="The Economic Times"/>