1957 Indian general election in Assam

The 1957 Indian general election in Assam were held to elect the 12 members from 10 constituencies in the state. The result was a victory for Indian National Congress winning 9 out of the 12 seats. And 2 seats were won by the Praja Socialist Party. The remaining seat was won by an Independent politician.

List of Elected MPs

Constituency		Template:Abbr	Winner					Runner-up					Margin
			Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Cachar	2	Dwarika Nath Tewari (SC)	Template:Party color cell	INC	2,19,704	55.85	Dev Dhirendra Mohan	Template:Party color cell	IND	1,73,675	44.15	Template:Abbr
			Nibaran Chandra Laskar	Template:Party color cell	INC	Returned UncontestedTemplate:Efn
2	Autonomous Districts (ST)	1	Hoover Hynniewta	Template:Party color cell	IND	58,428	49.86	G. Gilbert Swell	Template:Party color cell	INC	40,580	34.63	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|17,848	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|15.23
3	Dhubri	1	Amjad Ali	Template:Party color cell	PSP	1,01,303	57.98	Nazmul Haque	Template:Party color cell	INC	73,410	42.02	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|27,893	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|15.97
4	Goalpara	2	Dharanidhar Basumauari (ST)	Template:Party color cell	INC	1,83,774	26.40	Bishnu Prasad Rabha (ST)Template:Efn	Template:Party color cell	CPI	98,180	14.11	Template:Abbr
			Rani Manjula Debi	Template:Party color cell	INC	1,83,974	26.43	Bhabananda DattaTemplate:Efn	Template:Party color cell	CPI	1,03,151	14.82	Template:Abbr
5	Gauhati	1	Hem Barua	Template:Party color cell	PSP	1,43,497	59.76	Devendra Nath Sarma	Template:Party color cell	INC	96,624	40.24	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|46,873	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|19.52
6	Darrang	1	Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati	Template:Party color cell	INC	Returned Uncontested
7	Nowgong	1	Liladhar Kataki	Template:Party color cell	INC	1,19,002	61.74	Sukadev Goswami	Template:Party color cell	IND	53,947	27.99	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|65,055	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|33.75
8	Jorhat	1	Mofida Ahmed	Template:Party color cell	INC	80,028	45.36	Syed Abdul Malik	Template:Party color cell	CPI	33,713	19.11	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|46,315	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|26.25
9	Sibsagar	1	Profulla Chandra Borua	Template:Party color cell	INC	92,374	56.12	Kedarnath Goswami	Template:Party color cell	IND	32,633	19.83	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|59,741	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|36.29
10	Dibrugarh	1	Jogendra Nath Hazarika	Template:Party color cell	INC	95,238	69.32	Nibaron Chandra Bora	Template:Party color cell	PSP	25,712	18.71	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|69,526	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|50.60

See also

• Elections in Assam

Bibliography

• Volume I, 1957 Indian general election, 2nd Lok Sabha

External links

• Website of Election Commission of India
• CNN-IBN Lok Sabha Election History