INC vote share in 1952 was 45%. This however translated to a thumping majority of 364 seats (out of 489).
The voter turnout in this election was surprisingly low at 45.7%
The right wing faction of the erstwhile Janata Party had now morphed into the BJP - which made its debut this election - winning just 2 seats.
For the first time since 1984, a single party (BJP in this case) got to 272+ seats on its own!
The BJP vote share in 2014 was 31%. And the Congress vote share was 19% (translating to just 44 seats). This was a HUGE shift
Yet it is sobering to note that BJP's vote share in 2014 was still lower than what the Congress obtained in 1991 (when it formed a minority govt with 35% vote).