<span style="color: #222222;">Record 78 women candidates have been elected to the Lok Sabha in the recently held general elections. <br />'' <br />'' According to the Election Commission, the number has grown from the previous 62 women who were elected to the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014. <br />'' <br />'' In the country's first general elections in 1951, twenty-four women were elected to the Lower House, and since then, the number has been increasing.</span><br />''