1952 Bombay Legislative Assembly election

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Bombay were held on 26 March 1952. 1239 candidates contested for the 260 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 1 three-member, 47 two-member constituencies and 212 single-member constituencies.[1]

Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951

Results

 Summary of results of the 1952 Bombay Legislative Assembly election [1]

	Political party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %
	Indian National Congress		313	269	85.40	55,56,334	49.95
	Socialist Party		182	9	2.86	13,30,246	11.96
	Peasants and Workers Party of India		87	14	4.44	7,17,963	6.45
	Scheduled Caste Federation		37	1	0.32	3,44,718	3.10
	Kamgar Kisan Paksha		33	2	0.63	2,48,130	2.23
	Communist Party of India		25	1	0.32	1,59,994	1.44
	Krishikar Lok Party		16	1	0.32	1,07,408	0.97
	Independent		427	18	5.71	19,17,574	17.24
Total seats			315	Voters	2,19,04,595	Turnout	1,11,23,242 (50.78 %)

State Reorganization

On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956, Bombay state was enlarged by the addition of Saurashtra state and Kutch state, the Marathi-speaking districts of Nagpur Division of Madhya Pradesh, and the Marathi speaking Marathwada region of Hyderabad. The state's southernmost Kannada-speaking districts of Dharwar, Bijapur, North Kanara and Belgaum (excluding the Chandgad taluk) were transferred to Mysore state, while Abu Road taluk of the Banaskantha district was transferred to Rajasthan.[2] Hence the constituencies increased from 315 to 396 in 1957 elections.

See also

• Bombay State
• 1951–52 elections in India
• 1957 Bombay Legislative Assembly election

References

1. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Bombay" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
2. "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. 15 October 1955. Retrieved 25 July 2015.