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Table – 4
Independents Elected to Lok
Sabha in Successive General Elections
|
|
Year
|
No. of Seats Filled
|
No. of Independents Elected
|
% of independents Who Lost Deposit
|
|
1952
|
489
|
38
|
66.6
|
|
1957
|
494
|
42
|
60.1
|
|
1962
|
494
|
20
|
79.0
|
|
1967
|
520
|
35
|
86.2
|
|
1971
|
518
|
14
|
94.0
|
|
1977
|
542
|
09
|
97.2
|
|
1980
|
529
|
09
|
98.9
|
|
1984
|
542
|
05
|
99.7
|
|
1989
|
529
|
12
|
98.9
|
|
1991
|
534
|
01
|
99.5
|
|
1996
|
542
|
09
|
99.7
|
|
1998
|
542
|
06
|
–
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