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Year General Election Votes Polled Seats Won Seat Contested Total Seats 1957: 2nd Lok Sabha: 4,906,074: 37-- 1962: 3rd Lok Sabha: 5,711,263: 34-43 1967: 4th Lok Sabha
Indian National Congress: 371 123 75.10% Jawaharlal Nehru 1962: Third: 55.42% Indian National Congress: 361 113 73.08% Jawaharlal Nehru (died in 1964) and Lal Bahadur Shastri (1964-1966) 1967: Fourth: 520 61.04% Indian National Congress: 283 22 54.42% Indira Gandhi: 1971: Fifth: 518 55.27% Indian National Congress: 352 92 67.95% Indira Gandhi ...
Congress was reduced to 140 seats in elections that year, its lowest number in the Lok Sabha yet. Rao later resigned as prime minister and, in September, as party president. [175] He was succeeded as president by Sitaram Kesri, the party's first non-Brahmin leader. [176]
Indian National Congress: 364 44.99% Communist Party of India: 16 3.29% Socialist Party: 12 10.59% 2nd : 494 Indian National Congress: 371 47.78% Communist Party of India: 27 8.92% Praja Socialist Party: 19 10.41% 3rd : 494 Indian National Congress: 361 44.72% Communist Party of India: 29 9.94% Swatantra Party: 18 7.89% 4th : 520 Indian ...
The elections were a landslide victory for the Indian National Congress (Indira) of Rajiv Gandhi (son of Indira Gandhi), which won 404 of the 514 seats elected in 1984 and a further 10 in the delayed elections.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 September 2024. 2009 Indian general election ← 2004 16 April 2009 – 13 May 2009 (2009-05-13) 2014 → ← outgoing members elected members → 543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority Registered 716,985,101 Turnout 58.21% (0.14 pp) First party Second party Third party ...
With the results, the BJP was able to gain 21 seats in the House, having won 282 in the 2014 Indian general election. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It was the second time in India's independent history that voters re-elected the same party to power with a bigger majority to the Lok Sabha – India's lower house of parliament.
Later in the year, the Congress party president, S. Nijalingappa, expelled her from the party for indiscipline. [52] [53] Mrs. Gandhi as a counter-move launched her own faction of the INC. It was also known as Congress (R). [a] The original party then came to be known as Indian National Congress (O).