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History of Lok Sabha elections

12 Mar 2019

History Revisited: How political parties fared in India's first Lok Sabha poll

The first ever Lok Sabha election in the country was held in 68 phases for 489 seats from 25 October 1951 to 21 February 1952. With 44.99 per cent votes, the Congress staged a massive victory in the polls overshadowing all the others in the race for a seat in the House.

History of Lok Sabha elections

12 Mar 2019

INKredible India: The story of 1951-52 Lok Sabha election

India's first-ever Lok Sabha election was an exercise in asserting the country's democratic credentials just a few years after independence and a year after the Constitution was adopted. With rampant poverty and illiteracy, it was also a massive organisational challenge quite unprecedented at the time anywhere in the world.

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