Election Name: | 1952 Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election |
Country: | India |
Type: | parliamentary |
Vote Type: | Popular |
Ongoing: | no |
Election Date: | 26 March 1952 |
Next Election: | 1957 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election |
Next Year: | 1957 |
Seats For Election: | All 60 seats in the Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 31 |
Turnout: | 28.37% |
Image1: | Hand INC.svg |
Leader1: | S.N. Shukla |
Party1: | Indian National Congress |
Leaders Seat1: | Amarpur |
Seats1: | 40 |
Popular Vote1: | 2,70,013 |
Percentage1: | 39.60% |
Party2: | Socialist Party (India) |
Seats2: | 11 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,28,187 |
Percentage2: | 18.80% |
Chief Minister of Vindhya Pradesh | |
After Election: | S.N. Shukla |
After Party: | Indian National Congress |
Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh were held on March 26, 1952. 252 candidates contested the 48 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 12 two-member constituencies, and 36 single-member constituencies. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Sambhu Nath Shukla became the new Chief Minister.
|- 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| 56 || 40 || 66.67 || 2,70,013 || 39.60|-| ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party| 49 || 3 || 5.00 || 1,10,465 || 16.2|-| ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Socialist Party| 46 || 11 || 18.33 || 1,28,187 || 18.80|-| ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh| 33 || 2 || 3.33 || 67,330 || 9.88|-| ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad| 17 || 2 || 3.33 || 30,817 || 4.52|-| ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Independent politician| 42 || 2 || 3.33 || 62,102 || 9.11|- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan = 2| Total Seats! 60 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 24,03,588 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 6,81,799 (28.37%)|}
Constituency | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
Pushprajgarh | Ram Prasad Singh | ||
Dan Bahadur Singh | |||
Burhar | Saraswati Prasad Patel | ||
Sohagpur | Lal Rajendra Bahadur Singh | ||
Jaitpur-Kotma | Saheb Singh | ||
Padam Chand Patni | |||
Beohari | Baba Din | ||
Ram Kishore | |||
Umariya | Lal Aditya Nath Singh | ||
Amarpur | |||
Singrauli Niwas | Sumitri Devi | ||
Shyam Kartik | |||
Deosar | Ganga Dhar | ||
Sidhi Madwas | Chandra Pratap | ||
Dadhi | |||
Churhat | Jagat Bahadur Singh | ||
Kanpura | Bhai Lal | ||
Hanumana | Bhuneshwar Prasad | ||
Maugani Naigarhi | Someshwar Singh | ||
Sahdiya Chamar | |||
Teonthar | Rajeshwar Prasad Misra | ||
Garhi | Rana Samser Singh | ||
Semariya | Baikunth Prasad | ||
Sirmaur | Narmada Prasad Singh | ||
Mangawan | Sriniwas Tiwari | ||
Gurh | Brij Raj Singh | ||
Rewa | Jagdish Chandra Joshi | ||
Raipur | Shatru Sudan Singh | ||
Mukundpur | Kesho Prasad | ||
Ram Nagar | Balwant Singh | ||
Amarpatan | Lal Bihari Singh | ||
Rampur-Baghelan | Govind Narain Singh | ||
Sabhapur | Ram Sajiwan Singh | ||
Satna | Shiva Nand | ||
Kothi | Kaushalendra Pratap Bahadur Singh | ||
Amdara | Ramadhar Pandey | ||
Nagod | Gopal Saran Singh | ||
Het Ram | |||
Pawai | Bhura | ||
Narendra Singh | |||
Ajaigarh | Lalmohammad | ||
Panna | Saryu Prasad Chanpuriya | ||
Chandla | Kamta Prasad | ||
Laundi | Mahendra Kumar Jain | ||
Rajnagar | Gokal Prasad | ||
Chhatarpur | Govinda | ||
Panna Lal | |||
Bijawar | Diwan Pratap Singh | ||
Piyare Lal | |||
Malhera | Basant Lal | ||
Tikamgarh | Krishna Kant | ||
Rilli Chamar | |||
Chandpura | Thakur Das | ||
Jatara | Narain Das | ||
Lidhaura | Raghuraj Singh | ||
Niwari | Lala Ram Bajpai | ||
Prithvipur | Shyam Lal | ||
Seondha | Ram Das | ||
Laxmi Narain | |||
Datia | Shyam Sunder Das | ||
On 1 November 1956, Vindhya Pradesh was merged into Madhya Pradesh under States Reorganisation Act, 1956.[1]