భారతదేశంలో ఎన్నికల వ్యవస్థ
మొదటి సారిగా ఎన్నికలు 1951 లో, 26 రాష్ట్రాలలో 489 లోక్‌సభ నియోజకవర్గాలకు జరిగాయి. ఆ కాలంలో బహుసంఖ్య నియోజకవర్గాలుండేవి. అనగా ఒక నియోజకవర్గంలో 2 సీట్లు లేదా కొన్నిసార్లు 3 సీట్లు వుండేవి. 1960 లో ఈ విధానాన్ని రద్దుచేశారు.
సి.ఎన్.అన్నాదురై
The provincial conference of the DMK was held at Tiruchirappalli in May 1956. Annadurai stepped down from the General Secretaryship of the party, and Nedunchezhian was elected to that position. It was at the Tiruchirappalli conference that the party decided to contest free India's second general elections which were to be held in 1957. The DMK secured 15 Assembly seats and two parliamentary seats. Anna was elected from his home constituency, Kanchipuram for the first time to the Madras Legislative Assembly. In that election, the DMK won 15 seats and Annadurai became the leader of the opposition in the state. In 1962, the DMK emerged as the major political party in the state outside the Congress, winning 50 seats in the Assembly. Although Annadurai himself lost the elections, he was nominated as a member of parliament to the upper house (Rajya Sabha).