India - 2nd Lok Sabha 1957

2nd Lok Sabha 1957

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 296 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. 

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, in the 1957 polls not a single woman candidate was in the fray. Independents got 19 per cent of the vote in 1957. The 2nd Lok Sabha completed its full term on March 31, 1962

Date: 05/04/1957-31/03/1962

Speaker Shri Ananthasayanam Ayyangar 11/5/1957 -16/4/1962 Deputy Speaker Sardar Humam Singh 17/5/1957 -31/3/1962 Secretary-General Shri M.N.Kaul 05/04/1967-31/03/1962