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General Elections

Elections over the years

V.M. RAJASEKHAR
October 1952: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his tour of Rayalaseema. In the first Lok Sabha elections held in 1951-52, the Congress won 364 of the 489 seats with a 45 per cent vote share. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1962: Nehru, T.T. Krishnamachari and K. Kamaraj leave the makeshift stage after Nehru addressed an election meeting at Tilak Ghat in Triplicane, Madras, in February. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1957: Nehru emerges from "Meghdoot", the Prime Minister's Ilyushin aircraft, after landing at the Wellingdon Island airstrip in Kochi, when he arrived for campaigning in Kerala in February. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1957: Nehru addressing an election meeting at Gurgaon (Punjab), where Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was the candidate. Azad won with 1,91,221 votes and a 66.68 per cent vote share. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1967: In Madras city, meeting people at their doorstep. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1967: Appealing to voters on the road on public address systems fitted on motor cars. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1967: Appealing to voters on the road on public address systems fitted on motor cars. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1962: In Madras city, posters banners and symbols of the Congress, the Swatantra Party, the DMK and the Tamil national parties make their presence felt as campaigning picks up closer to the polling date in February. Of the 41 seats in the State, the Congress won 31, the last time that it won 30 or more seats on its own in the State. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1962: A Swatantra Party advertisement in "The Hindu". Photo: The Hindu Archives
1967: Waiting to vote in the fourth general election in Madras. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1967: In Madras city, ballot boxes being taken from the sealed room where they were stored to a counting centre. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1967: At the election information centre in New Delhi. The Posts and Telegraphs Department opened similar centres in several cities in the country. Photo: The Hindu Archives
Congress leadership issue, March 1967: The political drama in New Delhi ended to everyone's satisfaction on March 11 after Congress president K. Kamaraj worked tirelessly to find common ground, and this resulted in Morarji Desai withdrawing his candidature and ending the need for an election. Indira Gandhi was subsequently re-elected leader at the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting. Photo: The Hindu Archives
Morarji Desai (second from left). Photo: The Hindu Archives
K. Kamaraj. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1971: Indira Gandhi acknowledging the greetings of partymen soon after her election as the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party on March 18. Also seen in the picture are Congress president Jagjivan Ram and K. Hanumanthaiah, the visionary and statesman from Karnataka. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1971: Indira Gandhi addressing an election rally at Bolpur, West Bengal. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1977: Indira Gandhi addressing an election meeting in Madurai on March 7. Seated behind her are AIADMK leader M.G. Ramachandran and to his left, G.K. Moopanar. Photo: The Hindu Archives
November 1977: Jayaprakash Narayan addressing a public meeting at Sitabdiara, his birthplace in Bihar. Photo: The Hindu Archives
May 1977: Morarji Desai, who took charge as Prime Minister in the Janata Party government two months earlier, arriving in Madras on a two-day tour. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1977: Voters queue up outside a polling booth in Lucknow on March 18 in the sixth general election. Photo: The Hindu Archives
Voters making their way to the polling booth in a constituency in Rajasthan. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1980: In New Delhi, Indira Gandhi addresses supporters after her election victory in January. The Congress won 353 out of 542 seats. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1980: Indira Gandhi arrives at Madras airport on January 18, four days after she was sworn in as Prime Minister for the fourth time. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1980: A victorious Indira Gandhi arrives in Thiruvananthapuram on January 17. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1984: Rajiv Gandhi after he was elected leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party in New Delhi on December 31. Photo: THE HINDU ARCHIVES
1989: Rajiv Gandhi congratulates V.P. Singh after he was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi on December 2. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1989: V. P. Singh is congratulated by N.T. Rama Rao on his election as leader of the National Front Parliamentary Party in New Delhi on December 1. Among the others in the picture are (from right) M. Karunanidhi and Devi Lal. Photo: The Hindu Archives
May 1, 1991: Rajiv Gandhi on his way to address an election meeting in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Photo: The Hindu Archives
May 19, 1991: AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa campaigning in Chennai. Photo: The Hindu Archives
April 1991: Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar addressing an election meeting at Rura village in Kanpur. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1991: Janata Dal leaders V.P. Singh and Ajit Singh (right) at an election meeting, at Mallaban in Hardoi district in Uttar Pradesh on April 8. Photo: The Hindu Archives
June 1991: Congress president P.V. Narasimha Rao (left) with Gujarat Chief Minister Chimanbhai Patel at an election meeting in Ahmedabad. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1991: BJP leader L.K. Advani amid supporters while campaigning in Baharaich, Lucknow, on May 15. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1996: Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav at an election rally at Ali Ganj in the Etah parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh on May 4. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1996: H.D. Deve Gowda (right) with Janata Dal president and Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad and the Janata Dal's S.R. Bommai after he was unanimously elected to the post of Prime Minister, on May 14. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1998: The newly elected Congress president Sonia Gandhi with Ajit Singh, president of the Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party, and her son Rahul Gandhi in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, to address an election rally on February 13 in support of the Congress-BKKP alliance candidate. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1998: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi campaigning in Chennai on February 3. The Senior party leaders with him include Union Minister for Industry Murasoli Maran (to Karunanidhi's left) and his son and City Mayor M.K. Stalin. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1998: Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressing an election meeting in Bhopal on November 20. Seated at left is Narendra Modi, then the BJP's general secretary in charge of Madhya Pradesh. Photo: The Hindu Archives
1999: Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav, who defeated RJD chief Lalu Prasad, on his arrival at the Delhi airport on October 10. Photo: THE HINDU ARCHIVES
2004: Former Prime Minister V.P. Singh and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu make their way to the stage to address an election meeting in central Kolkata on May 4. Photo: The Hindu Archives
2009: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekara Reddy campaigning at Nandikotkur in Kurnool district on April 21. Photo: The Hindu Archives