Many Left leaders, including Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan have openly said that Rahul Gandhi contesting against a Left candidate will signal that the secular front was not together. LDF's candidate from Wayanad is PP Suneer of the CPI.The Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency was carved out in 2008 following the delimitation exercise. It comprises seven Assembly segments: three from Wayanad district, three from Malappuram district, and one from Kozhikode district. In 2014 and 2009, MI Shanavas of the Congress won the seat, defeating the Communist Party of India (CPI). The seat has been vacant since Shanavas’s death in November 2018.