Elections to the

Assam Legislative Assembly The Assam Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Assam. It is housed in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, geographically situated in present Western Assam region. The Legislative Assembly comprises 126 Me ...

were held on March 27, 1952. This election was officially known as the 1951

election, even though through delays, actual voting didn't take place until early 1952.

Constituencies

Assam Legislative Assembly, 1952 consisted of 81 single-member constituencies and 13 double-member constituencies. A total of 590 nominations were filed out of which 61 were rejected and 74 withdrew their nominations. So a total of 455 candidates contested the first legislative assembly elections in Assam.

Political Parties

9 National parties along with 10 registered unrecognized parties took part in the assembly election.

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

contested 92 seats and won 76 of them.

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candidates won 14 seats while no other party cross double-digit.

Results

, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" , ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote % , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 92 , , 76 , , 72.38 , , 10,64,850 , , 43.48 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

, , 61 , , 4 , , 3.81 , , 3,25,690 , , 13.30 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party The Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (''Farmer Worker People's Party'') was a political party of India. Established in 1951, it merged with the Socialist Party to form the Praja Socialist Party in the following year. History In June, 1951 Indian ...

, , 40 , , 1 , , 0.95 , , 1,46,792 , , 5.99 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

, 18 , , 1 , , 0.95 , , 69,431 , , 2.84 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Garo National Council The Garo National Council is a political party in Meghalaya in northeastern India which campaigns for the creation a new Indian state to be called Garoland, for the people of the Garo Hills. Founded in February 1946 as the Garo National Confe ...

, , 4 , , 3 , , 2.86 , , 14,577 , , 0.60 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Khasi-Jaintia Durbar , , 4 , , 1 , , 0.95 , , 24,248 , , 0.99 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

All People's Party (Assam) The All People's Party or ''Sarbadal'' was a political party in Assam, northeast India. The party was founded in Dibrugarh by Ahom elites on May 8, 1945. It united different groups that sought to challenge the Indian National Congress (which the A ...

, , 3 , , 1 , , 0.95 , , 14,930 , , 0.61 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Mizo Union Mizo Union (6 April 1946 – 12 January 1974) was the first political party in Mizoram, northeast India. It was founded on 6 April 1946 at Aizawl as the Mizo Common People's Union. At the time of independence of India from the british rule in ind ...

, , 3 , , 3 , , 2.86 , , 29,104 , , 1.19 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Khasi Jaintia Federated State National Conference The Khasi Jaintia Federated State National Conference (abbreviated KJFSNC) was an organization is the Khasi-Jaintia hills, India. As of 1946 KJFSNC petitioned the British authorities to create a Khasi Jaintia Federated States within Assam, merging ...

, , 1 , , 1 , , 0.95 , , 9,441 , , 0.39 , - , , , 213 , , 14 , , 13.33 , , 6,93,908 , , 28.34 , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, Total Seats ! 105 !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 49,55,390 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! 24,48,890 (49.42%)

References

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Constituencies

Political Parties

Results

See also

References