1st Lok Sabha Election

• Like today, even then, was world’s largest election.
• October 25, 1951, to February 21, 1952.
• 1874 candidates/53 parties.
• Poll% – 44.87%.
• Electors – 17,32,12,343 | Voters – 10,59,50,083.
• Voting window – October 25, 1951, to February 21, 1952.
• Logistics big bottleneck – spread across 68 phases.
• INC won | winning 364 of 489 seats | 44.99% vote share |76% SR.  
• 1st Runner-up – CPI – 16 seats – with 3.29% vote share. 
• 2nd runner-up – Socialist Party (SP) – 12 seats – with 10.59% vote share.

1^st LS+AE Election – 1951/52

• 180 tons of paper – for six hundred million ballot papers = cost (Rs. 10,77,401).
• 3,89,816 phials of indelible ink – to the States = cost (Rs. 2,27,460).
• 1st ACs to go to polls – Chini & Pangi (HP) – October 1951 – before snowfall in November.
• 1st election notification issued – September 10, 1951 – for AEs.
• Polling dates for China & Pangi ACs – 25th, 27th, 29th and 31st October, and 2nd November 1951.
• 1st PCs to go to polls – Thiruvella and Trichur – with 8 ACs in each – Travancore-Cochin – December 10, 1951.
• 1^st notification for PC elections – 1^st November 1951 | last notification – 29 November 1951 | total poll days – 17.
• Other PCs/ACs of Travancore-Cochin – polling in December 1951 + 1st week of January 1952.
• Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Hyderabad, and Punjab – polling began in December 1951.
• All other states – polling began in January 1952.
• UP’s northern hilly areas (Uttarakhand today) – late February 1952 – after snow melting.
• Constitution of 1^st Lok Sabha – 2^nd April 1952.
• 1^st elected government formed – 13^th May 1952.
• 1^st Lok Sabha sitting – 13^th May 1952.

1^st Notification of Members Elected – 1^st Election Result

State Elections

• February 9, 1952 – Madhya Pradesh & Saurashtra
• Last such election notification – May 17, 1952 – Coorg.

Lok Sabha

• April 2, 1952.