1952 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951

The first Delhi Legislative Assembly election to the Delhi Legislative Assembly was held on 27 March 1952. Forty-eight seats were up for election. Six of the constituencies elected two assembly members, the remaining 36 constituencies elected a single member.

Results

Congress emerged as the single largest party in the first legislative elections held in Delhi. Chaudhary Brahm Prakash of Indian National Congress was elected Chief Minister. <section begin=Results />Template:Election table !colspan=10| |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! colspan=2|Party !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | 47 || 39 || 81.25 || 271,812 || 52.09 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 31 || 5 || 10.42 || 114,207 || 21.89 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Scheduled Castes Federation | 5 || 0 || 0 || 15,592 || 2.99 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party | 7 || 0 || 0 || 13,646 || 2.62 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Socialist Party | 6 || 2 || 4.17 || 12,396 || 2.38 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha | 5 || 1 || 2.08 || 6,891 || 1.32 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | 1 || 0 || 0 || 2,591 || 0.50 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad | 4 || 0 || 0 || 849 || 0.16 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Forward Bloc (Marxist Group) | 1 || 0 || 0 || 503 || 0.10 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1 || 0 || 0 || 307 || 0.06 |- | Template:Party name with colour | 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

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

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. Next legislative assembly elections in Delhi were held in 1993, when Union Territory of Delhi was formally declared as National Capital Territory of Delhi by the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the Indian constitution.

See also

• 1951–52 elections in India
• 1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election