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With 173 million electors and 1,874 candidates, the country's first-ever parliamentary election after independence for 489 seats in the House of the People (Lok Sabha) was conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI), then barely an year old. ....
Though the party was far behind the Congress in the number of seats it won, its achievement was no small feat and set the tone for its future activities. ....
An electoral roll on the basis of universal franchise, prepared and maintained as accurately and as up-to-date as possible, was the plinth upon which the institutions of electoral democracy would rest. ....