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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1937 Sind provincial elections
| country = British India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1934 Indian general election
| previous_year = 1934
| next_election = 1946 Indian provincial elections
| next_year = 1946
| election_date = 1937
| registered = {{formatnum:639043}}<ref name="pk"/>
| seats_for_election = All 60 seats in the [[Sind Legislative Assembly]]
| image1 = Abdullah Haroon.jpg
| image1_size = 150x150px
| leader1 = [[Abdullah Haroon]]
| party1 = Sind United Party
| alliance1 =
| leaders_seat1 = Lyari (defeated)
| seats1 = 22
| seat_change1 =
| popular_vote1 =
| percentage1 =
| swing1 =
| color1 =
| image2 = ABHM flag.svg
| image2_size = x150px
| leader2 = [[Mukhi Gobindram Pritamdas]]
| leaders_seat2 = Upper Sindh
| party2 = Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
| alliance2 =
| seats2 = 11
| seat_change2 =
| popular_vote2 =
| percentage2 =
| swing2 =
| image3 = Flag of Indian National Congress.png
| image3_size = x110px
| leader3 = [[Ghanshyam Jethanand Shivdasani]]
| leaders_seat3 = Hyderabad
| party3 = Indian National Congress
| alliance3 =
| seats3 = 8
| seat_change3 =
| popular_vote3 =
| percentage3 =
| swing3 =
| colour3 =
| title = [[Prime Minister of Sind|Prime Minister]]
| before_election =
| before_party =
| after_election = [[Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah]]
| after_party = [[Sind Muslim Political Party|SMPP]]
| majority_seats = 31
| map = [[File:Indian Provincial Election 1937.svg|300px]]
}}
Elections to the Legislative Assembly of [[Sind Province (1936–1955)|Sind]] were held in January and February 1937.<ref name="pk"/> These were the first elections in the province after its creation in 1936. The [[Communal Award]] of 1932 had allocated sixty assembly seats to Sind, based on which it now formed an assembly of its own.<ref name="ans"/>

The seats were divided amongst the following electoral colleges; Muslims Rural 31 seats, Muslims Urban 2 seats, Women Muslim Urban 1 seat, General Rural 15 seats, General Urban 3 seats, Women General Urban 1 seat, Europeans 2 seats, Landowners 2 seats, Commerce and Industry 2 seats and Labour 1 seat.<ref name="ans">Ansari, Sarah F. D. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jFRzOeF0nvMC Sufi Saints and State Power: The Pirs of Sind, 1843-1947]''. Cambridge South Asian studies, 50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. pp. 115-116</ref> In total, there were 639,043 eligible voters.<ref name="pk">Afzal, Nasreen. ''[http://prr.hec.gov.pk/chapters/2114-7.pdf Role of Sir Abdullah Haroon in Politics of Sindh (1872-1942)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304204049/http://prr.hec.gov.pk/chapters/2114-7.pdf |date=2012-03-04 }}''</ref>

The [[Sind United Party]] won twenty-two of the Muslim seats, the [[Sind Muslim Political Party]] won four seats 4 whilst the [[Sind Azad Party]] won three seats. The party identity of one Muslim delegate was unclear. [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] candidates won the remaining nine seats from the Muslim constituencies.<ref name="pk"/>

In the General constituencies, the [[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha|Sind Hindu Mahasabha]] won eleven seats, the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] eight seats, Independent Hindus two seats and [[Independent Labour Party (India)|Independent Labour Party]] one seat. From the European and Commercial and Industry constituencies, non-party candidates were elected.<ref name="pk"/>

However, whilst the Sind United Party had emerged as the winner of the election its two most prominent leaders (Haji Abdullah Haroon and [[Shah Nawaz Bhutto]]) had failed to win the seats they contested.<ref name="ans"/> Haroon had contested the Lyari constituency, in northern [[Karachi]]. The Lyari seat was won by [[Khan Bahadur Allah Buksh Gabol|Sardar Allah Baksh Gabol]]. The [[Larkana]] seat, which Bhutto had contested, was won by Sheikh Abdul Majid Sindhi.<ref name="pk"/>

After the election the governor of Sind asked the leader of the Sind Muslim Political Party to form a cabinet. Largescale defections took place from the ranks of the Sind United Party and the Sind Azad Party in the assembly.<ref name="ans"/>

United Party senior leader [[Allah Bux Soomro]] later served as [[Premier of Sindh]] from 23 March 1938 – 18 April 1940 until a no-confidence motion was passed against him by the Indian National Congress and Muslim League.<ref name="malkani_bio">{{cite book|title=The Sindh Story, Chapter 11: Thrown to the wolves|url=http://www.freesindh.org/sindhstory/Thrown_to_the_Wolves.html|publisher=Allied Publishers|author=K. R. Malkani|authorlink=K. R. Malkani|year=1988|access-date=2018-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621025051/http://www.freesindh.org/sindhstory/Thrown_to_the_Wolves.html|archive-date=2012-06-21|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was briefly elected back to power and served briefly from 27 March 1942 – 14 October 1942, but was dismissed by the Governor due to his support for the [[Quit India Movement]].<ref name="malkani_bio" />

==Results ==
Source<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Taylor |first=David Denis |year=1971 |title=Indian Politics and the Elections of 1937 |url=https://soas-repository.worktribe.com/OutputFile/389306 |degree=PhD |publisher=[[University of London]] |access-date=26 August 2025}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Party
!Hindu urban
!Hindu rural
!Hindu women
!Muslim urban
!Muslim rural
!Muslim women
!European
!Commerce
!Landholders
!Labour
!Total
|-
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|2
|3
|1
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
| -
| -
|7
|-
|[[Hindu Mahasabha|Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha]]
|1
|10
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
| -
|12
|-
|[[Sind United Party]]
| -
| -
| -
|1
|16
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|17
|-
|[[Sindh Muslim League|Sind Muslim League]]
| -
| -
| -
|1
|13
|1
| -
| -
|1
| -
|16
|-
|[[Sind Azad Party]]
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
|-
|Independent Hindus
| -
|2
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
|3
|-
|Independent Muslims
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
|-
|Unaligned
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|2
|1
| -
| -
|3
|-
|Total
|3
|15
|1
|2
|31
|1
|2
|2
|2
|1
|60
|}

=== Members elected ===
Source:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sir Stanley Reed |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282213 |title=The Indian Year Book 1936 37 Vol Xxiii}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Reservation
!Constituency
!Member
|-
| rowspan="19" |Hindu
|Karachi City North
|Popatlal A. Bhoopatkar
|-
|Karachi City South
|Rustomji Khurshedji Sidwa{{Efn|[[Parsi]]s didn't had their own reservation or separate electorate, thus they stood as candidates for Hindu seats & voted alongside Hindus}}
|-
|Hyderabad City
|[[Mukhi Gobindram Pritamdas]]
|-
|Karachi
|Nihchaldas Chatumal Vazirani
|-
|Dadu
|[[Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta|Jamshedji Nauserwanji Mehta]]
|-
|Larkana
|Rai Sahib Gokaldas Mewaldas
|-
|Upper Sindh Frontier
|Hemandas Rupchand Wadhwani
|-
|Sukkur West
|Daulatram Mohandas
|-
|Sukkur Central
|[[Bhojsing Gurdinomal Pahalajani|Bhojsingh Gurdinomal Pahlajani]]
|-
|Sukkur East
|Hassaram Sundardas Pamnani
|-
|Nawabshah North
|Newandram Vishindas
|-
|Nawabshah South
|Hotchand Hiranand
|-
|Hyderabad suburbs and taluks
|Ghanshyam Jethanand Shivadasani
|-
|Hyderabad North
|Ghanumal Tarachand
|-
|Hyderabad South
|Diwan Bahadur Hiranand Khemsingh
|-
|Tharparkar West
|Partabrai Khaisukhdas
|-
|Tharparkar North
|Shitaldas Perumal
|-
|Tharparkar South
|Akhiji Ratansingh Sodhi
|-
|Hyderabad-cum-Karachi City women
|Miss [[Jethi Sipahimalani|Jethibai Tulsidas Sipahimalani]]
|-
| rowspan="34" |Muslim
|Karachi City North
|Khan Sahib [[Allah Bakhsh Gabol|Allah Baksh Khudadad Khan Gabol]]
|-
|Karachi City South
|[[Muhammad Hashim Gazdar|Muhammad Hashim Faiz Muhammad Gazdar]]
|-
|Karachi North
|Muhammad Usman Muhammad Khan Soomro
|-
|Karachi South
|Muhammad Yusuf Khair Muhammad Khan Chandio
|-
|Karachi East
|Ghulam Hyder Shah Sahibdino Shah Babri
|-
|Dadu North
|Ghulam Muhammad Abdullah Khan Isran
|-
|Dadu Central
|[[Pir Ilahi Bux|Pir Ilahi Baksh Nawaz Ali]]
|-
|Dadu South
|[[G. M. Syed|Syed Ghulam Murtaza Shah Muhammad Shah]]
|-
|Larkana North
|[[Abdul Majid Sindhi|Abdul Majid Lilaram]]
|-
|Larkana East
|Khan Bahadur Muhammad Ayub Shah Muhammad Khan Khuhro
|-
|Larkana South
|Khan Bahadur Haji Amir Ali Khan Tharu Khan Lahori
|-
|Larkana West
|Mir Muhammad Khan Nawab Ghaibi Khan Chandio
|-
|Upper Sindh Frontier East
|Mir Zainuddin Khan Sundar Khan Sundarani
|-
|Upper Sindh Frontier Central
|Khan Sahib Sohrab Khan Sahibdino Khan Sharqi
|-
|Upper Sindh Frontier West
|Khan Sahib Jafar Khan Gul Muhammad Khan Burdi
|-
|Sukkur North-West
|Khan Bahadur [[Allah Bux Soomro|Allah Baksh Muhammad Umar Soomro]] [[Order of the British Empire|O. B. E.]]
|-
|Sukkur South-West
|Shamshuddin Khan Abdul Kabir Khan
|-
|Sukkur South-East
|[[Abdus Sattar Abdur Rahman]]
|-
|Sukkur Central
|Khan Sahib Pir Rasul Baksh Shah Mehbub Shah
|-
|Sukkur North-East
|Khan Bahadur Kaiser Khan Ghulam Muhammad Khan
|-
|Nawabshah North
|Syed Muhammad Ali Shah Allahando Shah
|-
|Nawabshah North-West
|Syed Nur Muhammad Shah Murad Ali Shah
|-
|Nawabshah West
|Rasul Baksh Khan Muhammad Khan Uner
|-
|Nawabshah South
|S. B. Jam Jan Muhammad Khan Muhammad Sharif Junejo
|-
|Nawabshah East
|Syed Khair Shah Imam Ali Shah
|-
|Hyderabad North
|Makhdum Ghulam Hyder Makhdum Zahiruddin
|-
|Hyderabad North-West
|[[Miran Mohammad Shah|Miran Muhammad Shah Zainulabdin Shah]]
|-
|Hyderabad South-West
|Mir Ghulam Allah Khan Mir Haji Hussain Baksh Khan Talpur
|-
|Hyderabad East
|Mir Bandeh Ali Khan Mir Haji Muhammad Hussain Khan Talpur
|-
|Hyderabad South
|Mir [[Ghulam Ali Talpur|Ghulam Ali Khan Bandeh Ali Khan Talpur]]
|-
|Tharparkar West
|Sardar Bahadur Mir Allahbad Khan Imam Baksh Khan Talpur
|-
|Tharparkar North
|Khan Bahadur Syed Ghulam Nabi Shah Mauj Ali Shah
|-
|Tharparkar South
|Arbab Togachi Mir Muhammad
|-
|Karachi City women
|Mrs Jenubai [[G. Allana|Ghulam Ali Allana]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |European
|Karachi City
|J. J. Flockhart
|-
|Sind rural
|Colonel H. J. Mahon
|-
| rowspan="2" |Commerce
|[[Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry|Karachi Chamber of Commerce]]
|G. H. Raschen
|-
|Indian Commerce
|Ishwardas Varandmal
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Landholders
|Sir [[Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah]]
|-
|Dialmal Daulatram
|-
| colspan="2" |Labour
|Narayandas Anandji Bechar
|}

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Elections in Sindh]]
[[Category:1937 elections in India]]
[[Category:Politics of Sindh]]
[[Category:Provincial Assembly elections in British India|Sind]]

1937 Sind Provincial Assembly election - Revision history

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