Except for G. Bhuvaraghan (the minister for Information and Publicity), all ministers of the outgoing Bakthavatsalam cabinet were defeated in this election.
These by-elections are only noted when the minister was defeated; in general, he was elected unopposed.
In the table below, these by-elections are only noted when the minister was defeated; in general, he was elected unopposed.
Thus, a three-time prime minister, a visionary to whom peace for Israel was the only practical pursuit, who is a Nobel Prize laureate, was defeated by a fragmented legislature.
Several ministers and the Congress Party's Speaker of the House were defeated; one politician summed up the election as "an anti-establishment vote."
Nine Liberal ministers - nearly half the cabinet - had been defeated.
Many incumbent ministers of the Justice Government were defeated in this election.
He accepted these conditions, but the minister of war-who years earlier as general in Algeria had been badly defeated by Abd al Qadir-had him consigned in France in the Château d'Amboise.
The former foreign minister, the former deputy interior minister and the former deputy justice minister were all defeated.
The Liberals lost 20 seats from their 1949 high water mark, but still constituted almost two-thirds of the House of Commons, and no minister was defeated.