History of Elections in India
Lok Sabha is composed of representatives of the people chosen by direct election on the basis of the adult suffrage. The maximum strength of the House envisaged by the Constitution is 552, which is made up by election of up to 530 members to represent the States, up to 20 members to represent the Union Territories and not more than two members of the Anglo-Indian Community to be nominated by the President, if, in his/ her opinion, that community is not adequately represented in the House.
- 1st Lok Sabha (1951)
- 2nd Lok Sabha (1957)
- 3rd Lok Sabha (1962)
- 4th Lok Sabha (1967)
- 5th Lok Sabha (1971)
- 6th Lok Sabha (1977)
- 7th Lok Sabha (1980)
- 8th Lok Sabha (1984-85)
- 9th Lok Sabha (1989)
- 10th Lok Sabha (1991)
- 11th Lok Sabha (1996)
- 12th Lok Sabha (1998)
- 13th Lok Sabha (1999)
- 14th Lok Sabha (2004)
- 15th Lok Sabha (2009)
Read more about this topic: Elections In India
Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, elections and/or india:
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“India is an abstraction.... India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)