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{{Short description|3rd lower house of the Parliament of India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox legislative term
| name                  = 3rd Lok Sabha 
| image                 = New Delhi government block 03-2016 img3.jpg
| image_size            = 
| caption               = [[Old Parliament House, New Delhi|Old Parliament House]], [[Sansad Marg]], [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| body                  = [[Indian Parliament]]
| election              = [[1962 Indian general election]]
| before                = ''[[2nd Lok Sabha]]'' 
| after                 = ''[[4th Lok Sabha]]''
}}
The '''3rd [[Lok Sabha]]''', (2 April 1962 – 3 March 1967) was [[1962 Indian general election|elected in February–March 1962]]. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the [[Parliament of India]]. The election was held for 494 seats out of which Indian national congress won 361 seats.<ref name="3ls" /> 14 sitting members from [[Rajya Sabha]] were elected to 3rd Lok Sabha after the [[1962 Indian general election]].<ref name="rs">{{cite web|title=RAJYA SABHA STATISTICAL INFORMATION (1952-2013)|url= http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/publication_electronic/rsstatis_inf52-03.pdf |publisher=Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi|page=12 |date=2014}}</ref>
{{Politics of India}}[[Jawaharlal Nehru]] was Prime Minister as in [[1st Lok Sabha]] and [[2nd Lok Sabha]], till his death on 27 May 1964.
[[Gulzarilal Nanda]] became acting Prime Minister for 13 days, before [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] became Prime Minister on 9 June 1964. After Shastri's death on 11 January 1966, Nanda became acting Prime Minister again for 13 days. Later [[Indira Gandhi]], Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh became Prime Minister on 24 January 1966.

The next [[4th Lok Sabha]] was constituted on 4 March 1967 after [[1967 Indian general election]].

==Important members==
* '''Speaker:'''
**[[Sardar Hukam Singh]] from 17 April 1962 to 16 March 1967
* '''Deputy Speaker :'''
**[[S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao]] from 23 April 1962 to 3 March 1967
* '''Secretary General:'''
**[[M. N. Kaul]] from 27 July 1947 to 1 September 1964
**[[S. L. Shakdhar]] from 2 September 1964 to 18 June 1977<ref name=3ls>{{cite web|url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/lokprelist.aspx?lsno=3|title=Third Lok Sabha|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi|access-date=12 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703133246/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/lokprelist.aspx?lsno=3|archive-date=3 July 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==List of members by political party==
{{see also|List of members of the 3rd Lok Sabha}}
Members of the political party in the 3rd Lok Sabha are given below
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=2 | 3rd Lok Sabha <br />{{nobold|Party Name}}
! Number of MP's<br />{{small|(total 494)}}
|-
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| INC
| 361
|-
| [[Communist Party of India]]
| CPI
| 29
|-
| [[Swatantra Party]]
| SP
| 18
|-
| [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
| BJS
| 14
|-
| [[Praja Socialist Party]]
| PSP
| 12
|-
| [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| DMK
| 7
|-
| [[Socialist Party (India)|Socialist Party]]
| SSP
| 6
|-
| [[Ganatantra Parishad]]
| GP
| 4
|-
| [[Akali Dal]]
| AD
| 3
|-
| [[Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata Party]]
| CNSPJP
| 3
|-
| [[Republican Party of India]]
| RPI
| 3
|-
| [[Indian Union Muslim League]]
| IUML
| 2
|-
| [[Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad]]
| RRP
| 2
|-
| [[All India Forward Bloc]]
| AIFB
| 2
|-
| [[Lok Sevak Sangh]]
| LSS
| 2
|-
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
| RSP
| 2
|-
| [[All Party Hill Leaders Conference]]
| APHLC
| 1
|-
| [[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha]]
| ABHM
| 1
|-
| Haryana Lok Samiti
| HLS
| 1
|-
| Nutan Maha Gujarat Janata Parishad
| NMGJP
| 1
|-
| Independents
| -
| 20
|-
| Nominated [[Anglo-Indian]]s
| -
| 2
|}

===Women Members===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
! State
! Constituency
! Name of Elected M.P.
! colspan="2" style="width:18em"| Party affiliation
|-
|rowspan=4|Andhra Pradesh
|[[Eluru (Lok Sabha constituency)|Eluru]]
|[[Viramachaneni Vimla Devi]]
|{{Full party name with colour|Communist Party of India}}
|-
|[[Kurnool (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kurnool]]
|[[Yashoda Reddy]]
|{{Full party name with colour|Indian National Congress|rowspan=8}}
|-
| Vicarabad
| [[Sangam Laxmi Bai]]
|-
|[[Khammam (Lok Sabha constituency)|Khammam]]
|[[T. Lakshmi Kantamma]]
|-
|rowspan=2|Assam
|[[Cachar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Cachar (SC)]]
|[[Jyotsna Chanda]]
|-
|[[Barpeta (Lok Sabha constituency)|Barpeta]]
| [[Renuka Devi Barkataki]]
|-
|rowspan=6|Bihar
|[[Banka (Lok Sabha constituency)|Banka]]
|[[Shakuntala Devi (politician)|Shakuntala Devi]]
|-
|[[Barh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Barh]]
|[[Tarkeshwari Sinha]]
|-
|[[Patna (Lok Sabha constituency)|Patna]]
|[[Ram Dulari Sinha]]
|-
|[[Aurangabad, Bihar Lok Sabha constituency|Aurangabad]]
||Rani Lalita Rajya Laxmi
|{{Full party name with colour|Swatantra Party}}
|-
|[[Jahanabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jahanabad]]
|[[Satyabhama Devi]]
|{{Full party name with colour|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[Chatra (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chatra]]
|[[Vijaya Raje]]
|{{Full party name with colour|Swatantra Party}}
|-
|rowspan=2|Gujrat
|[[Amreli (Lok Sabha constituency)|Amreli]]
|[[Jayaben Shah]]
|{{Full party name with colour|Indian National Congress|rowspan=11}}
|-
|[[Banaskantha (Lok Sabha constituency)|Banaskantha]]
|[[Zohraben Chavda]]
|-
|rowspan=6|Madhya Pradesh
|[[Gwalior (Lok Sabha constituency)|Gwalior]]
|[[Vijaya Raje Scindia]]
|-
|[[Janjgir (Lok Sabha constituency)|Baloda Bazar]]
|[[Minimata Agam Dass Guru]]
|-
|[[Raipur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raipur]]
|[[Keshar Kumari Devi]]
|-
|[[Damoh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Damoh (SC)]]
|[[Sahodrabai Rai]]
|-
|[[Bhopal (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhopal]]
|[[Maimoona Sultan]]
|-
|[[Jhabua (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jhabua (ST)]]
|[[Jamuna Devi]]
|-
|Madras
|[[Nilgiris (Lok Sabha constituency)|Nilgiris]]
|[[Akkamma Devi]]
|-
|Maharashtra
|[[Ratnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ratnagiri]]
|[[Sharda Mukherjee]]
|-
|Mysore
|[[Dharwad North Lok Sabha constituency|Dharwad North]]
|[[Sarojini Mahishi]]
|-
|Rajasthan
|[[Jaipur Lok Sabha constituency|Jaipur]]
|[[Gayatri Devi]]
|{{Full party name with colour|Swatantra Party}}
|-
|rowspan=6|Uttar Pradesh
|[[Mohanlalganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mohanlalganj (SC)]]
|[[Ganga Devi (politician)|Ganga Devi]]
|{{Full party name with colour|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[Kaiserganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kaiserganj]]
|Basant Kunwari
|{{Full party name with colour|Swatantra Party}}
|-
|[[Balrampur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Balrampur]]
|[[Subhadra Joshi]]
|{{Full party name with colour|Indian National Congress|rowspan=5}}
|-
|[[Banda (Lok Sabha constituency)|Banda]]
|[[Savitri Nigam]]
|-
|[[Jhansi (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jhansi]]
|[[Sushila Nayar|Dr. Sushila Nayar]]
|-
|[[Hapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Hapur]]
|[[Kamla Chaudhry]]
|-
|West Bengal
|[[Malda (Lok Sabha constituency)|Malda]]
|[[Renuka Ray]]
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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