Indian general election, 1957
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India held general elections to the 2nd
2nd Lok Sabha
Membership of the Second Lok Sabha...

 Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

. The Indian National Congress managed to replicate its 1952 success story in the second Lok Sabha elections held in 1957. The INC managed to win 371 seats from a total of 490 candidates who were in the political fray. The party also secured 47.78 per cent majority winning a total of 57,579,589 votes. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru came back to power with a comfortable majority. On May 11, 1957, M. Ananthasayanam Iyengar was unanimously elected the Speaker of the new Lok Sabha. His name was proposed by Prime Minister Nehru and seconded by Mr. Satyanarayan Sinha.

The second general elections, which were conducted for 494 seats in 403 constituencies, represented 13 Indian states and 4 union territories. At that time, there were 312 one-seat, and 91 two-seat and no three-seat constituency.
The multi-seat constituencies were discontinued since the third general elections in 1962.

These elections also saw the rise of Congress member, Feroz Gandhi (who went on to marry PM Nehru's daughter Indira), who defeated his nearest rival, Nand Kishore by a margin of over 29,000 votes to win the general seat in the Rae Bareilly constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

Interestingly, independents got 19 per cent of the vote in 1957. The 2nd Lok Sabha completed its full term on March 31, 1962.

Results by Party



Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

 elections 1957


Electoral participation: 55.42%    
%
494

Bharatiya Jana Sangh
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
The Bharatiya Jana Sangh existed from 1951 to 1980, whereupon it was succeeded by the Bharatiya Janata Party, one of India's largest political parties...

BJS
5.97
4
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...


CPI
8.92
27
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

INC
47.78
371
Praja Socialist Party
Praja Socialist Party
The Praja Socialist Party was an Indian political party in existence from 1952 to 1972. It was founded when the Socialist Party, led by Jayprakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh , merged with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party led by J.B. Kripalani...

PSP
10.41
19
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
The Akhil Bhārat Hindū Mahāsabhā is a Hindu nationalist political party in India. It was founded in 1915, as an alternative for Hindus who were not attracted to the secular Indian National Congress and sought to oppose the Muslim separatism of the Muslim League.-Hindutva:The Mahasabha promoted the...

ABHM
0.86
1
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
RRP
0.38
0
Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata PartyCNSPJP
0.42
3
Forward Bloc (Marxist)
All India Forward Bloc
The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India...


AIFB
0.55
2
Ganatantra Parishad
Ganatantra Parishad
The Ganatanra Parishad or the All India Ganatantra Parishad was a regional political party based in Orissa state in eastern India from 1950 to 1962. This political party was formed by the former rulers of the erstwhile princely states and big landlords. It was founded in 1950 and Rajendra Narayan...

GP
1.07
7
Jharkhand Party
Jharkhand Party
Jharkhand Party, a political party in India. The party was founded on March 5, 1949 at a large conference in Ranchi. Jaipal Singh was elected president and Idsen Deba general secretary. JKP grew out of the demand for a separate Jharkhand state....


JKP
0.62
6
Peasants and Workers Party of India
Peasants and Workers Party of India
Peasants and Workers Party of India , is a marxist political party in Maharashtra, India. The party was founded in 1949, having its roots from the pre-Independence period and has around 10,000 members. The influence of the party is largely limited to three districts.Member of legislative council of...


PWPI
0.77
4
People's Democratic Front
Peoples Democratic Front (Hyderabad)
Peoples Democratic Front was a mass front of Communist Party of India in the Hyderabad State.Peoples Democratic Front abbreviated as PDF is one of the post Independence parties in India....


PDF
0.87
2
Praja Party
Praja Party
The Praja Party, initially called the Council Praja Party or the Bengal Praja Party and later renamed the Nikhil Banga Praja Samiti and finally the Krishak Praja Party , was a political party of Bengal in the latter days of British India. Formed in July 1929, it lasted until 1937...


PP
0.12
0
Revolutionary Socialist Party
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok...


RSP
0.26
0
Scheduled Castes Federation
Republican Party of India
The Republican Party of India is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr. Ambedkar. The main base of RPI has traditionally been in Maharashtra....


SCF
1.69
6
Independents
-
19.32
42

Nominated Anglo-Indian
Anglo-Indian
Anglo-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in India, now mainly historical in the latter sense. British residents in India used the term "Eurasians" for people of mixed European and Indian descent...

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-
-
2


See also

  • State Assembly elections in India, 1957
  • Election Commission of India
    Election Commission of India
    The Election Commission of India is an autonomous, quasi-judiciary constitutional body of India. Its mission is to conduct free and fair elections in India...

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    Indian presidential election, 1957
    The Election Commission of India held indirect 2nd presidential elections of India on May 7, 1962. Dr. Rajendra Prasad won his re-election with 459,698 votes over his rivals Chowdhry Hari Ram who got 2,672 votes and Nagendra Narayan Das who got 2,000 votes. Dr...

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