Friday 20 February 2015

21st February 1952 General Elections In India

Indian general election, 1951–52

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Indian general election, 1951
India
1945 ←25 October 1951 to 21 February 1952→ 1957

All 489 seats in the Lok Sabha
245 seats were needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
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LeaderJawaharlal NehruShripad Amrit Dange
PartyINCCPI
Leader's seatPhulpurBombay City North
Seats won36416
Popular vote47,665,8753,484,401
Percentage44.993.29

Prime Minister before election
Elected Prime Minister
The Indian general election of 1951–52 elected the first Lok Sabha since India became independent in August 1947.[1][2][3] Until this point, the Indian Constituent Assembly had served as an interim legislature. See the 'Durations' section below to find the time-range associated with these elections.
The Indian National Congress (INC) won a landslide victory, winning 364 of the 489 seats and 45% of the total votes polled. This was over four times as many votes as the second-largest party.Jawaharlal Nehru became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the country. In the first Lok Sabha polls held in 1951, India had 17.32 crore voters(The overall population of India that timewas 36 crore).[4] Voter turnout was 45.7%.[5]

Parties[edit]

Before Independent India went to the polls, two former cabinet colleagues of Nehru established separate political parties to challenge the INC's supremacy. While Shyama Prasad Mookerjee went on to found the Jana Sangh in October 1951, Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar revived the Scheduled Castes Federation (which was later named the Republican Party). Other parties which started coming to the forefront included the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Parishad, whose prime mover was Acharya Kripalani; the Socialist Party which had Ram Manohar Lohia and Jay Prakash Narayan's leadership to boast of and the Communist Party of India. However, these smaller parties could not stand against Congress.

Constituencies[edit]

The first general elections, which were conducted for 489 seats in 401 constituencies, represented 26 Indian states. At that time, there were 314 constituencies with one seat, 86 with two seats and one with three seats.[6] The multi-seat constituencies were abolished in the 1960s. There were also 2 nominated Anglo-Indian members.

Results[edit]

PartyAbbr.Votes %Seats
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu MahasabhaABHM0.954
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya ParishadRRP1.973
Bharatiya Jana SanghBJS3,246,2883.063
Bolshevik Party of IndiaBPI0.020
Communist Party of IndiaCPI3,484,4013.2916
Forward Bloc (Marxist)FB(M)0.911
Forward Bloc (Ruiker)FB(R)0.130
Indian National CongressINC47,665,87544.99364
Krishikar Lok PartyKLP1.411
Kisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP6,156,5585.799
Revolutionary Communist Party of IndiaRCPI0.060
Revolutionary Socialist PartyRSP0.443
Scheduled Caste FederationSCF2.382
Socialist PartySP11,266,77910.5912
All India Republican PartyREP0.040
All India Republican PartyRPP0.050
All India United Kisan SabhaUKS0.060
All Manipur National UnionAMNU0.020
All People's PartyAPP0.030
Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata PartyCNSPJP0.221
Cochin PartyCP0.010
Commonweal PartyCWP0.313
Ganatantra ParishadGP0.916
Gandhi Sebak SevaGSS0.010
Hill Peoples PartyHPP0.020
Historical ResearchHR0.000
Hyderabad State Praja PartyHSPP0.010
Jharkhand PartyJKP0.713
Justice PartyJP0.060
Kamgar Kisan PakshaKKP0.130
Kerala Socialist PartyKSP0.10
Khasi-Jaintia DurbarKJD0.030
Kisan Janata Sanyukta PartyKJSP0.010
Kisan Mazdoor MandalKMM0.010
Kuki National AssociationKNA0.010
Lok Sevak SanghLSS0.292
Madras State Muslim League PartyMSMLP0.081
National Party of IndiaNPI0.000
Peasants and Workers Party of IndiaPWPI0.942
Peoples Democratic FrontPDF1.297
Praja PartyPP0.020
Punjab Depressed Class LeaguePDCL0.010
Pursharathi PanchayatPURP0.010
Revolutionary Socialist Party (Uttar Pradesh)RSP(UP)0.020
Shiromani Akali DalSAD0.994
S.K. PakshaSKP0.130
Saurashtra Khedut SanghSKS0.030
Tamil Nadu Toilers PartyTNTP0.844
Tamil Nadu Congress PartyTNCP0.030
Tribal SanghaTS0.110
Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress PartyTTNC0.111
Uttar Pradesh Praja PartyUPP0.20
Zamindar PartyZP0.270
Independents16,817,91015.937
Nominated Anglo-Indians--2
Total105,944,495100489

Notable losses[edit]

Scheduled Caste leader B. R. Ambedkar was defeated in the Bombay (North Central) constituency as Scheduled Castes Federation candidate by his little-known former assistant and Congress Candidate Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar, who polled 1,38,137 votes compared to Ambedkar's 1,23,576 votes.[7]:156 Dr Ambedkar then entered the parliament as a Rajya Sabha member. He contested bye-poll from Bhandara in 1954 to try to enter Lok Sabha but again lost to Mr Borkar of Congress.
Acharya Kripalani lost from Faizabad in UP as KMPP candidate, but his wife Sucheta Kripalani defeated the Congress candidate in Delhi.

Government formation[edit]

The Speaker of the first Lok Sabha was Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar. The first Lok Sabha also witnessed 677 sittings (3,784 hours), the highest recorded count of the number of sittings. The Lok Sabha lasted its full term from 17 April 1952 until 4 April 1957.

Duration[edit]

While Indian Government's official websites and official documents assign the year 1951 to these polls, it is a misrepresentation because all territories except Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir voted in February-March 1952; no polls were held for Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir until 1967, and only Himachal Pradesh voted in 1951 for the first Lok Sabha because weather tends to be inclement in February and March, heavy snow impending free movement.[8] The rest of the India voted only in Fenbruary-March 1952 for the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections. Polling was held between 25 October 1951 and 27 March 1952. The very first votes of the election were cast in the tehsil (district) of Chini in Himachal Pradesh.[7]

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ "Lok Sabha Results 1951-52". Election Commission of India.
  2. Jump up^ "Statistical Report on Lok Sabha Elections 1951-52". Election Commission of India.
  3. Jump up^ "Lok Sabha Elections Stats Summary 1951-52". Election Commission of India.
  4. Jump up^ India has nearly 83 crore voters: Brahma
  5. Jump up^ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p. 572 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  6. Jump up^ "General Election of India 1951, List of Successful Candidate". Election Commission of India. p. 6. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
  7. Jump up to:a b Ramachandra Guha (2008). India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest DemocracyISBN 978-0-06-095858-9.
  8. Jump up^ India's first voter in Himachal Pradesh, by Gautam Dhmeer, in the Deccan Herald; published October 30, 2012; retrieved April 7, 2014

Further reading[edit]

  • Guha, Ramachandra. "Democracy's Biggest Gamble," World Policy Journal, (Spring 2002) 19#1 pp. 95–103

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