| Election Name: | 1952 Bhopal Legislative Assembly election |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Vote Type: | Popular |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Next Election: | 1957 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election |
| Next Year: | 1957 (MP) |
| Seats For Election: | All 30 seats in the Bhopal Legislative Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Turnout: | 37.07% |
| Image1: | Hand INC.svg |
| Party1: | Indian National Congress |
| Seats1: | 25 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,17,656 |
| Percentage1: | 52.01% |
| Party2: | Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha |
| Seats2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 31,684 |
| Percentage2: | 14.01 |
| Chief Minister of Bhopal | |
| After Election: | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| After Party: | Indian National Congress |
Elections to the Bhopal Legislative Assembly were held on March 27, 1952. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats, and Shankar Dayal Sharma became the Chief Minister.
The Bhopal Legislative Assembly consisted of 30 seats, distributed in seven two-member constituencies and sixteen single-member constituencies. A total of 91 contestants were in the fray for these 30 seats. Silwani legislative assembly had the maximum number of contestants (8 candidates), while Ichhawar had the minimum contestants (only 1 candidate, who was elected unopposed).
Four national parties, along with Kisan Mazdoor Mandal took part in the assembly election. Indian National Congress emerged as the single largest party, while no other party crossed the double digit.
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;"!colspan=8||-! class="unsortable" |! Political Party !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote %|- style="background: #90EE90;"| ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress| 28 || 25 || 83.33 || 1,17,656 || 52.01|-| ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha| 9 || 1 || 3.33 || 31,684 || 14.01|-| ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | Independent politician| 32 || 4 || 13.33 || 51,736 || 22.87|- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan = 2| Total Seats! 30 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 6,10,182 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 2,26,210 (37.07%)|}
| Constituency | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shahajahanabad | Jalauddin Qureshi | ||
| 2 | Shishmahal | Syed Ajazuddin | ||
| 3 | Jahangirabad | Inayatullah Tarzi Mashriqui | ||
| 4 | Bairagarh | Baboolal Bhartia | ||
| Lila Rai | ||||
| 5 | Sardarmal Lalwani | |||
| 6 | ||||
| 7 | Nazirabad | Shankar Dayal | ||
| 8 | Umrao Singh | |||
| Sultan Mohd Khan | ||||
| 9 | Shyampur | Har Kishan Singh | ||
| Baboolal | ||||
| 10 | Chandan Mal | |||
| Gopi Das | ||||
| 11 | Kotri | Maimoona Sultana | ||
| 12 | Kesarimal Jain | |||
| 13 | Nasrullahganj | Vanshi Dhar | ||
| 14 | Lachmi Narain | |||
| 15 | Raisen | Baboolal | ||
| Kamta Prashad | ||||
| 16 | Begumganj | Kundan Lal | ||
| 17 | Sultanganj | Baboolal Kamal | ||
| 18 | Goharganj | Dalip Singh | ||
| Gulab Chand | ||||
| 19 | Amrawad | Narbada Charan Lal | ||
| 20 | Bareli | Shyam Sundar | ||
| 21 | Lila Dhar Rathi | |||
| Daulat Shah | ||||
| 22 | Nit Gopal | |||
| 23 | Ram Karan Lal | |||
On November 1, 1956, Bhopal State was merged into Madhya Pradesh under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.[1]