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]
Results
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! Political party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote %
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| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress
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| 313 || 269 || 85.40 || 55,56,334 || 49.95
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| style="text-align:left;" |Socialist Party
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| 182 || 9 || 2.86 || 13,30,246 || 11.96
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| style="text-align:left;" |Peasants and Workers Party of India
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| 87 || 14 || 4.44 || 7,17,963 || 6.45
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| style="text-align:left;" |Scheduled Caste Federation
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| 37 || 1 || 0.32 || 3,44,718 || 3.10
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| style="text-align:left;" |Kamgar Kisan Paksha
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| 33 || 2 || 0.63 || 2,48,130 || 2.23
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| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India
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| 25 || 1 || 0.32 || 1,59,994 || 1.44
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| style="text-align:left;" |Krishikar Lok Party
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| 16 || 1 || 0.32 || 1,07,408 || 0.97
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| 427 || 18 || 5.71 || 19,17,574 || 17.24
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! colspan = 3| Total seats
! 315 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 2,19,04,595 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 1,11,23,242 (50.78%)
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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
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- "Bombay Legislative assembly 1951 results" Assembly members.
- "Reorganization of States, 1955". The Economic Weekly, 15 October 1955. Retrieved 25 July 2015.