He had previously stood as a Communist candidate in school elections.
A Communist candidate gained the most votes in another race but not the needed majority.
About 40 percent of the Communist candidates are women.
Similarly, the Communist candidate in the presidential race this spring captured 13.7 percent of the vote.
A Trotskyist, she has described herself as the "only communist candidate" in the election.
After this result, twenty-one other communist candidates withdrew from their candidacy.
His defeat in 1944 was partly due to vote-splitting with a Communist candidate.
Grossman ran and defeated the Communist candidate by a margin of 131 votes.
He stood for election in 1927, and was the communist candidate who came closest to winning a seat, but did not (three others did).
Nothing illustrates this more succinctly than the fact that 28 percent of the Communist candidates are millionaires.
