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INC. General elections were held in India between 25 October 1951 and 21 February 1952, the first national elections after India attained independence in 1947. [1][2][3] Voters elected 489 members of the first Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. Elections to most of the state legislatures were held simultaneously.
General election. General elections to the first Lok Sabha since independence were held in India between 25 October 1951 and 21 February 1952. The Indian National Congress (INC) stormed into power, winning 364 of the 489 seats. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the country.
The first elections to the Lok Sabha took place during 1951–52. [1] [2] [3] List of Lok Sabha general elections in India. Election year Lok Sabha Total seats
1920 Indian general election. General elections were held in British India in 1920 to elect members to the Imperial Legislative Council and the Provincial Councils. They were the first elections in the country's modern history. [1][2] The new Central Legislative Assembly which was the lower chamber of the Imperial Legislative Council was based ...
Elections in the Republic of India include elections for. President of India, Vice President of India, Members of the Parliament in Rajya Sabha (Upper house) and Lok Sabha (Lower house), Members of State Legislative Councils, Members of State Legislative Assemblies (includes legislative assemblies of three union territories - Jammu and Kashmir ...
Administrative regions during the Indian general election, 1951–52. The First Lok Sabha was constituted on 17 April 1952 after India's first general election. It completed its full tenure of five years and was dissolved on 4 April 1957. [1] The year 1951 is often misleadingly associated with the election for first Lok Sabha.
The First Lok Sabha was constituted on 17 April 1952 after India 's first general election. The 1st Lok Sabha lasted its full tenure of five years and was dissolved on 4 April 1957. The First Session of this Lok Sabha commenced on 13 May 1952. Total Lok Sabha seats were 489 and total eligible voters were 17.3 crores.
First voter of Independent India. Shyam Saran Negi (1 July 1917 – 5 November 2022) was an Indian school teacher in Kalpa, Himachal Pradesh, who cast the first vote in the 1951 general election in India [2][3] — the nation's first election since the end of the British Rule in 1947. Although most of the polling for that first election took ...