Elections to the Bombay Legislative Assembly were held on 25 February 1957. 1146 candidates contested for the 339 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 57 two-member constituencies and 282 single-member constituencies.[1]
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 Dharwad, Bijapur, North Kannada and Belgaum (excluding the Chandgad taluka) 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.
Results
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! Political party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net change
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Seats
! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote %
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| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress
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| 396 || 234 || Template:Decrease 35 || 59.10 || 81,31,604 || 48.66 || Template:Decrease 0.71
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| style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party
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| 100 || 36 || New || 9.09 || 14,98,700 || 8.97 || New
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| style="text-align:left;" |Peasants and Workers Party of India
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| 55 || 31 || Template:Increase 17 || 7.83 || 11,13,436 || 6.66 || Template:Increase 0.21
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| style="text-align:left;" |Scheduled Castes Federation
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| 51 || 13 || Template:Increase 12 || 3.28 || 10,41,355 || 6.23 || Template:Increase 3.13
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| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India
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| 34 || 13 || Template:Increase 12 || 3.28 || 6,07,383 || 3.63 || Template:Increase 2.19
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| style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh
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| 24 || 4 || Template:Increase 4 || 1.01 || 2,60,826 || 1.56 || Template:Increase 1.52
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| style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
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| 11 || 1 || Template:Increase 1 || 0.25 || 71,514 || 0.43 || Template:Increase 0.09
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| 464 || 64 || Template:Increase 11 || 16.16 || 39,72,548 || 23.77 || N/A
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! style="text-align:center;" |Total seats !! 396 (Template:Increase 81) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 3,14,40,079 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|1,67,12,160 (53.16%)
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See also
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedBombayECI1957 - ↑ Reorganisation of States, 1955. The Economic Weekly(15 October 1955).