Elections to the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...

were held on 26 March 1952. 2,604 candidates contested for the 347 constituencies in the Assembly. The

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 ...

won the majority of seats and its leader

Govind Ballabh Pant Govind Ballabh Pant (10 September 1887 – 7 March 1961) was an Indian freedom fighter and the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabh Bhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the movement fo ...

was re-elected as the Chief Minister. After the passing of ''The Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1951'', the constituencies were set to the ones used in this election. There were 83 two-member constituencies and 264 single-member constituencies.

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;" ,

, 429 , , 388 , , 90.23 , , 80,32,475 , , 47.93 , - , , 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 ...

, , 349 , , 20 , , 4.65 , , 20,15,320 , , 12.03 , - , , 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 ...

, , 268 , , 1 , , 0.23 , , 9,55,708 , , 5.70 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Bharatiya Jana Sangh The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) (ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the pol ...

, , 211 , , 2 , , 0.47 , , 10,81,395 , , 6.45 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad (RRP, "All India Council of Ram's Kingdom") was an Indian Hindu nationalist political party founded by Swami Karpatri in 1948. The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament ...

, , 95 , , 1 , , 0.23 , , 2,91,247 , , 1.75 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha The Hindu Mahasabha (officially Akhil Bhārat Hindū Mahāsabhā, ) is a Hindu nationalist political party in India. Founded in 1915, the Mahasabha functioned mainly as a pressure group advocating the interests of orthodox Hindus before the B ...

, , 63 , , 1 , , 0.23 , , 2,39,110 , , 1.43 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Uttar Pradesh Praja Party , , 55 , , 1 , , 0.23 , , 3,01,322 , , 1.80 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Uttar Pradesh Revolutionary Socialist Party The Uttar Pradesh Revolutionary Socialist Party (abbreviated UP RSP) was a left-wing political party in Uttar Pradesh, India 1951–1952. It held one seat in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The party ended up merging with the Communist Pa ...

, , 9 , , 1 , , 0.23 , , 57,284 , , 0.34 , - , , , 1006 , , 15 , , 3.49 , , 32,94,500 , , 19.66 , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, Total Seats ! 430 !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 4,40,89,646 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! 1,67,58,619 (38.01%)

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1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

Uttar March 1952 events in Asia

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