Adding local short description: "General election in india", overriding Wikidata description "election" (Shortdesc helper)
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{{Short description|General election in india}} | |||
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2016}} | {{Use Indian English|date=July 2016}} | ||
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| title = [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] | | title = [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] | ||
| posttitle = | | posttitle = Prime Minister after election | ||
| before_election = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] | | before_election = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] | ||
| before_party = Indian National Congress | | before_party = Indian National Congress | ||
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== By-elections == | |||
In 1963, a by-election was held for the [[Bilaspur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bilaspur]] Lok Sabha seat, which was at the time in [[Madhya Pradesh]]. The election was won by the [[Indian National Congress]] candidate C. Singh, with {{formatnum:86229}} votes, against M. L. Shukla of [[Jana Sangh]] with {{formatnum:54156}} votes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Details of Bye Elections from 1952 to 1995|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results52-95.xlsx|publisher=ECI, New Delhi|accessdate=13 September 2017}}</ref> This by-election was needed because the original election for this seat was declared void by the [[Madhya Pradesh High Court]], which judged that the nomination papers of one of the candidates, Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, "was improperly and illegally rejected by the Returning Officer".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/48774/ |title=Satya Prakash vs Bashir Ahmed Qureshi |date=22 April 1963 |author1=P. Dixit |author2=K. Pandey |access-date= 15 October 2021 |quote=our conclusion is that the respondent's nomination was improperly and illegally rejected by the Returning Officer and the Election Tribunal rightly declared the appellant's election as void.}}</ref> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||