India's first Lok Sabha elections were held between 25 October 1951 and 21 February 1952.
At the time, the Congress was pretty much the strongest contender.
The CPI (Communist Party of India) was in the fray as well.
This is how they did campaigning in those days.
An election speech in full swing.
There were over 173 million voters. Most of them were voting for the first time in their lives.
Even the women came out in force.
Here's a polling centre from those elections.
And here's how the votes were counted.
Even then, these elections were the biggest experiment in democracy anywhere in the world.
The Congress won and Jawaharlal Nehru became India's first democratically elected Prime Minister.
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