Kerala remains the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) toughest electoral battleground, where the saffron outfit has never secured a single Assembly seat despite steady vote share gains. In the 2021 polls, BJP’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) garnered around 12.41 per cent votes but drew blanks amid Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) dominance (99 seats) and United Democratic Front’s (UDF) 41. Recent Lok Sabha and local body successes- Suresh Gopi’s Thrissur win in 2024 and NDA’s 1,919 wards in 2025- signal clear momentum heading into the April 2026 Assembly elections. Yet breaking the jinx hinges on flipping close-loss seats where BJP finished second or narrowly missed out.
