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{{Short description|1952 state assembly election in Delhi}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1952 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election =
| previous_year =
| election_date = 27 March 1952
| next_election = 1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1993
| seats_for_election = All 48 seats to the [[Delhi Legislative Assembly]]
| majority_seats = 25
| opinion_polls =
| turnout = 58.52%
| image1 = File:Chaudhary Brahm Parkash.jpg
| leader1 = '''[[Brahm Prakash (politician)|Brahm Prakash]]'''
| party1 = Indian National Congress
| leader_since1 =
| leaders_seat1 = [[Nangloi Jat (Delhi Assembly constituency)|Nangloi Jat]]
| last_election1 =
| seats_before1 = N/A
| seats1 = '''39'''
| seat_change1 = N/A
| popular_vote1 = '''2,71,812'''
| percentage1 = '''52.09%'''
| swing1 = 
| image2 = Oil lamp.svg
| leader2 =
| party2 = Bharatiya Jana Sangh
| leader_since2 =
| leaders_seat2 = -
| last_election2 =
| seats_before2 = N/A
| seats2 = 5
| seat_change2 = N/A
| popular_vote2 = 1,14,207
| percentage2 = 21.89%
| swing2 = 
| title = Chief Minister
| posttitle = [[Chief Minister of Delhi|Chief Minister]]
| before_election =
| before_party =
| after_election = [[Brahm Prakash (politician)|Brahm Prakash]]
| after_party = Indian National Congress
}}

[[File:India Administrative Divisions 1951.svg|thumb|Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951]]

The first '''Delhi Legislative Assembly election''' to the [[Delhi Legislative Assembly]] was held on 27 March 1952.<ref name="DelhiECI1951"/><ref name="a1">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzZAIcOc52gC&pg=PA65 | title=Modern Governments and Political Systems. Vol. 3 | publisher=Mittal Publications |author1=Kaushik, S. L. |author2=Rama Patnayak | year=1995 | location=New Delhi | pages=65}}</ref> Forty-eight seats were up for election.<ref name="a1"/> Six of the constituencies elected two assembly members, the remaining 36 constituencies elected a single member.<ref name="DelhiECI1951"/>

==Results==
Congress emerged as the single largest party in the first legislative elections held in Delhi.<ref name= DelhiECI1951/> [[Chaudhary Brahm Prakash]] of [[Indian National Congress]] was elected [[Chief Minister of Delhi|Chief Minister]].
<section begin=Results />{{election table|title=Summary of results of the 1952 Delhi Legislative Assembly election<ref name="DelhiECI1951">{{cite web |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_DELHI.pdf |title= Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Delhi |format= PDF |publisher= Election Commission of India |access-date= 2014-03-11}}</ref> |sortable=yes}}
!colspan=10|[[File:India Delhi Legislative Assembly 1952.svg]]
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;"
! colspan=2|Party !! Seats <br /> Contested !! Won !! % of <br /> Seats !! Votes !! Vote %
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Indian National Congress]]
| 47 || 39 || 81.25 || 271,812 || 52.09
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
| 31 || 5 || 10.42 || 114,207 || 21.89
|-
| {{party color cell|Scheduled Castes Federation}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Scheduled Castes Federation]]
| 5 || 0 || 0 || 15,592 || 2.99
|-
| {{party color cell|Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party]]
| 7 || 0 || 0 || 13,646 || 2.62
|-
| {{party color cell|Socialist Party (India, 1948)}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Socialist Party (India, 1948)|Socialist Party]]
| 6 || 2 || 4.17 || 12,396 || 2.38
|-
| {{party color cell|Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha]]
| 5 || 1 || 2.08 || 6,891 || 1.32
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Communist Party of India]]
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 2,591 || 0.50
|-
| {{party color cell|Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad]]
| 4 || 0 || 0 || 849 || 0.16
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Forward Bloc}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc (Marxist Group)]]
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 503 || 0.10
|-
| {{party color cell|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
| 1 || 0 || 0 || 307 || 0.06
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
| 78 || 1 || 2.08 || 82,972 || 15.90
|- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan = 2| Total Seats
! 48 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 744,668 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 521,766 (58.52%)
|}<section end=Results />

==Elected members==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!S.No.
!Constituency
!Member
!colspan=2|Party
|-
||1|| Kotla Feroze Shah || Shanta Vasisht || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||2|| Parliament Street || Kaushaleshwar Prasad Shankara || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||3|| Safdar Jang || Daljit Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||4|| Lodhi Road || Shiva Nandan Rishi || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||5|| Puran Qilla Viney Nagar || Pushpa Devi || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||6|| [[Delhi Cantt Assembly constituency|Delhi Cantt]] || Raghvendra Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||7||rowspan="2" | Reading Road || Amin Chand || {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
||8|| Prafulla Ranjan Chakravarty || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||9|| Chittar Gupta || Kartar Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||10|| Mantola || Mushtaq Rai || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||11|| Ram Nagar || Shankar Lal || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||12|| Jhanday Walan || Ghardhari Lal Salwan || {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
||13|| Kashmere Gate || Bhagwan Dass || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||14|| [[Chandni Chowk Assembly constituency|Chandni Chowk]] || Yudhvir Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||15|| Phatak Habash Khan || Harkishan Lal || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||16|| Maliwara || Anand Raj || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||17|| [[Ballimaran Assembly constituency|Ballimaran]] || Sultan Yar Khan || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||18|| Chawri Bazar || Nuruddin Ahmad || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||19|| Ajmeri Gate || Shafiq Ur Rehman Kidwai || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||20||rowspan="2" | Sita Ram Bazar Turkman Gate || Shiv Charan Dass || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||21|| Sudershan Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||22|| Kucha Chelan || Mushtaq Ahmad || {{Full party name with color|Socialist Party}}
|-
||23|| Darya Ganj || [[Gurmukh Nihal Singh]] || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||24|| Chandrawal || Hukam Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||25|| Roshanara || Jagan Nath || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||26|| Arya Pura || Mangal Dass || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||27|| Tokriwalan || Gopinath || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||28|| Deputy Ganj || Sham Charan || {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
||29||rowspan="2" | Pahari Dhiraj Basti Jullahan || Hem Chand Jain || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||30|| Dhanpat Rai || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||31|| Manak Pura || B.D. Joshi || {{Full party name with color|Socialist Party}}
|-
||32|| Tibbia College || Ram Singh || {{Full party name with color|Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha}}
|-
||33|| Naiwala || Dilawar Singh || {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
||34||rowspan="2" | Rehgar Pura Dev Nagar || Daya Ram || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||35|| [[Sushila Nayar]] || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||36|| Kishan Ganj Anad Parbat || Jag Pravesh Chandra || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||37|| Civil Lines || Krishna || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||38|| Kingsway Camp || Jang bahadur Singh || {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
||39|| Wazirabad || Fateh Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||40|| [[Shahdara Assembly constituency|Shahdara]] || Chinta Mani || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||41||rowspan="2" | [[Nerela Assembly constituency|Narela]] || Mange Ram || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||42|| Prabhu Dayal || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||43|| [[Nangloi Jat Assembly constituency|Nangloi]] || [[Brahm Prakash (politician)|Chaudhary Brahm Prakash]] || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||44|| Khanjhawla || Bhup Singh || {{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}
|-
||45|| Isa Pur || Subedat Hati Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||46|| [[Najafgarh Assembly constituency|Najaf Garh]] || Ajit Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||47||rowspan="2" | [[Mehrauli Assembly constituency|Mehrauli]] || Mitter Sen || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
||48|| Sukh Dev || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|}

==State Reorganization==
On 1 November 1956, under [[States Reorganisation Act, 1956]], Delhi was made a [[Union Territory]] under the direct administration of the President of India and the [[Delhi Legislative Assembly]] was abolished simultaneously.<ref name="1955ReorgStates">{{cite web | url=http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1955_7/42/reorganisation_of_statesthe_approach_and_arrangements.pdf | title=Reorganisation of States, 1955 | publisher=The Economic Weekly | date=15 October 1955 | accessdate=25 July 2015}}</ref> Next legislative assembly elections in Delhi were held in [[1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election|1993]], when Union Territory of Delhi was formally declared as [[National Capital Territory of Delhi]] by the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the [[Constitution of India|Indian constitution]].<ref name=" Sixty-ninth amendment ">{{cite news|title=Sixty-ninth amendment|publisher=[[Delhi Assembly]] official website|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend69.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821020032/http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend69.htm#|archive-date=21 August 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[1951–52 elections in India]]
* [[1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Delhi elections}}
{{Indian elections}}

[[Category:State Assembly elections in Delhi|1952]]
[[Category:1952 State Assembly elections in India|Delhi]]
[[Category:1950s in Delhi]]
[[Category:March 1952 in Asia]]

1952 Delhi Legislative Assembly election - Revision history

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