1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

The West Bengal State Assembly Election of 1952 was a part of the series of Legislative Assembly elections in 1952.

West Bengal State Assembly Election of 1952
31 March 1952
All 187 seats in the West Bengal state assembly
94 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Bidhan Chandra Roy Jyoti Basu
Party INC CPI
Leader's seat Bowbazar Baranagar
Seats won 150 28
Seat change n/a n/a
Percentage 38.82% 10.76%
Swing n/a n/a
Chief Minister before election

Bidhan Chandra Roy
INC

 Chief Minister

Bidhan Chandra Roy
INC

Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951
West Bengal, India

Alliances

On the political left, two alliances had emerged the United Socialist Organisation of India (an alliance between the Communist Party of India, the Socialist Republican Party[1] and the Forward Bloc (Marxist Group)) and the People's United Socialist Front (comprising the Socialist Party, the Forward Bloc (Ruikar) and the Revolutionary Communist Party of India).[2]

Results

Alliance wise result

The election was won by the Indian National Congress, who got a majority of its own in the assembly. The communists became the largest opposition party.

USOI SEATS PUSF SEATS INC+ SEATS OTHERS SEATS OTHERS SEATS
CPI28SPI0 INC150BJS9 IND19
SRP0FB(R)1 ABHM4KMPP15
AFBM11RSP0 ABRRP0
TOTAL (1952)39 TOTAL (1952)2 TOTAL (1952)150 TOTAL (1952)13 TOTAL (1952)34

Party wise result
 Summary of results of the 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election [3]
Political partyFlagSeats
Contested		Won% of
Seats		VotesVote %
Indian National Congress 23615063.562,889,99438.82
Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party 129156.36667,4468.97
Communist Party of India 862811.86800,95110.76
Bharatiya Jana Sangh 8593.81415,4585.58
Forward Bloc (Marxist Group) 48114.66393,5915.29
Socialist Party 630215,3822.89
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha 3341.691,76,7622.37
Forward Bloc (Ruikar) 3220.851,07,9051.45
Revolutionary Socialist Party 16063,1730.85
Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore) 10032,8590.44
Bolshevik Party of India 80201170.27
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad 1407,1000.10
Independent 614198.051,653,16522.21
Total seats 238Voters17,628,239Turnout7,443,903 (42.23 %)

State Reorganization

On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956, a portion of the Purnea district east of the river Mahananda and the Purulia sub-district of the Manbhum district in the south (except Char Thana) were transferred from Bihar to West Bengal.[4] Thus, assembly constituencies in West Bengal increased from 187 (238 seats) to 195 (252 seats) during 1957 assembly elections.

See also

References
  1. Contested as independents. Rao (2003) estimates that they had 19 candidates, out of whom 4 were elected.
  2. M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. Communist Parties and United Front - Experience in Kerala and West Bengal. Hyderabad: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 213.
  3. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
  4. "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. October 15, 1955. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
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