1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
31 March 1952
All 238 seats in the West Bengal state assembly; 120 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	42.23%
	Structure of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly after the election
Chief Minister before election; Bidhan Chandra Roy; INC	Elected Chief Minister ; Bidhan Chandra Roy; INC

Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951

The West Bengal State Assembly Election of 1952 was a part of the series of Legislative Assembly elections in 1952. It was the first ever assembly election held in West Bengal.

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
CPI	28	SPI	0	INC	150	BJS	9	IND	19
SRP	0	FB(R)	1			ABHM	4	KMPP	15
AFBM	11	RSP	0			ABRRP	0
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 party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %
	Indian National Congress		236	150	63.56	2,889,994	38.82
	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party		129	15	6.36	667,446	8.97
	Communist Party of India		86	28	11.86	800,951	10.76
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh		85	9	3.81	415,458	5.58
	Forward Bloc (Marxist Group)		48	11	4.66	393,591	5.29
	Socialist Party		63	0		215,382	2.89
	Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha		33	4	1.69	1,76,762	2.37
	Forward Bloc (Ruikar)		32	2	0.85	1,07,905	1.45
	Revolutionary Socialist Party		16	0		63,173	0.85
	Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore)		10	0		32,859	0.44
	Bolshevik Party of India		8	0		20117	0.27
	Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad		14	0		7,100	0.10
	Independent		614	19	8.05	1,653,165	22.21
Total seats			238	Voters	17,628,239	Turnout	7,443,903 (42.23%)

Elected members

No	Constituency	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	Member
1	Kalimpong	None	Lalit Bahadur Kharga	Communist Party of India
2	Darjeeling	None	Dalbahadur Singh Gahatraj	Independent
3	Jore Bungalow	None	Shiva Kumar Rai	Independent
4	Kurseong Siliguri	None	Tenzing Wangdi	Indian National Congress
4	Kurseong Siliguri	None	George Mahbert	Independent
5	Jalpaiguri	None	Ashrumati Devi	Indian National Congress
5	Jalpaiguri	None	Khagendra Nath Dasgupta	Indian National Congress
6	Western Duars	None	Sasadhar Kar	Indian National Congress
6	Western Duars	None	Munda Antoni Topno	Indian National Congress
7	Mainaguri	None	Surendra Nath Roy	Indian National Congress
8	Dhupguri	None	Rabindra Nath Sikdar	Indian National Congress
9	Alipur Duars	None	Pijush Kanti Mukherjee	Indian National Congress
9	Alipur Duars	None	Dhirandra Bramha Mandal	Indian National Congress
10	Central Duars	None	Jajneswar Roy	Indian National Congress
10	Central Duars	None	Bhagat Mangaldas	Indian National Congress
11	Mekliganj	None	Satyendra Prasanna Chatterjee	Indian National Congress
12	Mathabhanga	None	Sarada Prasad Pramanick	Indian National Congress
13	Dinhate	None	Satish Chandra Roy Singha	Indian National Congress
13	Dinhate	None	Umesh Chandra Mandal	Indian National Congress
14	Cooch Behar	None	Maziruddin Ahmed	Indian National Congress
14	Cooch Behar	None	Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar	Indian National Congress
15	Raiganj	None	Shyama Prasad Barman	Indian National Congress
15	Raiganj	None	Gulam Hamidur Rahman	Indian National Congress
16	Itahar	None	Banamali Das	Indian National Congress
17	Gangarampur	None	Satindra Nath Basu	Indian National Congress
18	Balurghat	None	Saroj Ranjan Chattopadhyaya	Indian National Congress
18	Balurghat	None	Lakshman Chandra Hasda	Indian National Congress
19	Gazole	None	Dharanidhar Sarkar	Communist Party of India
20	Kharba	None	Tafazzal Hossain	Indian National Congress
21	Harishchandrapur	None	Ramhari Roy	Indian National Congress
22	Ratua	None	Md. Sayeed Mia	Indian National Congress
23	Manikchak	None	Pashupati Jha	Indian National Congress
24	Malda	None	Nikunjabehari Gupta	Indian National Congress
24	Malda	None	Raipada Das	Independent
25	Kalichak (north)	None	Abul Barkat Ataul Gani	Independent
26	Kaliachak (south)	None	Sowrindra Mohan Misra	Indian National Congress
27	Nalhati	None	Yeakub Hossain	Indian National Congress
28	Murarai	None	Jogendra Narayan Das	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
29	Rampurhat	None	Panchanan Let	Forward Bloc
29	Rampurhat	None	Srikumar Bandopadhyaya	Forward Bloc
30	Nanur	None	Saha Sisir Kumar	Indian National Congress
30	Nanur	None	Murarka Basanta Lal	Indian National Congress
31	Bolpur	None	Roy Hanseswar	Indian National Congress
31	Bolpur	None	Hansadah Bhusan	Indian National Congress
32	Suri	None	Majhi Nishapati	Indian National Congress
32	Suri	None	Sen Gupta Gopika Bilas	Indian National Congress
33	Khayrasole	None	Bandopadhyaya Khagendra Nath	Indian National Congress
34	Farakka	None	Giasuddin	Indian National Congress
35	Suti	SC	Lutfal Haque	Independent
36	Sagardighi	None	Shyamapada Bhattacharyya	Indian National Congress
36	Sagardighi	None	Kuber Chand Haldar	Indian National Congress
37	Lalgola	None	Kazeemali Meerza	Indian National Congress
38	Murshidabad	None	Durgapada Sinha	Indian National Congress
39	Raninagar	None	Jainal Abedin Kezi	Indian National Congress
40	Jallangi	None	A . M . A . Zaman	Indian National Congress
41	Hariharpara	None	A . Hamid ( Haji )	Indian National Congress
42	Newada	None	Mahammad Israil	Independent
43	Beldanga	None	Kshitish Chandra Ghose	Indian National Congress
44	Bharatpur	None	Bijoyendu Narayan Roy	Indian National Congress
45	Burwan Khargram	None	Satyendra Chandra Ghosh Maulik	Indian National Congress
45	Burwan Khargram	None	Sudhir Mondal	Indian National Congress
46	Kandi	None	Goalbadan Trivedi	Indian National Congress
47	Berhampore	None	Bejoy Kumar Ghosh	Indian National Congress
48	Chhatna	None	Probodh Chandra Dutta	Hindu Mahasabha
48	Chhatna	None	Kamala Kanta Hembram	Indian National Congress
49	Raipur	None	Jadu Nath Murmu	Independent
49	Raipur	None	Jatindra Nath Basu	Indian National Congress
50	Khatra	None	Ashutosh Mallik	Indian National Congress
50	Khatra	None	Amulya Ratan Ghose	Hindu Mahasabha
51	Taldangra	None	Purabi Mukherjee	Indian National Congress
52	Barjora	None	Prafulla Chandra Roy	Indian National Congress
53	Gangajalghati	None	Dhirendra Nath Chatterjee	Indian National Congress
54	Bankura	SC	Rakhahari Chatterjee	Hindu Mahasabha
55	Vishnupur	None	Kiran Chandra Digar	Indian National Congress
55	Vishnupur	None	Radha Gobinda Roy	Indian National Congress
56	Sonamukhi	None	Sishuram Mandal	Indian National Congress
56	Sonamukhi	None	Bhabataran Chakraborty	Indian National Congress
57	Binpur	None	Mongal Chandra Saren	Indian National Congress
57	Binpur	None	Nripendra Gopal Mitra	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
58	Gopiballavepore	None	Dhananjoy Kar	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
58	Gopiballavepore	None	Jagatpati Hansda	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
59	Jhargram	None	Madan Mohan Khan	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
59	Jhargram	None	Mohendra Nath Mahato	Indian National Congress
60	Narayangarh	None	Surendranath Pramanik	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
60	Narayangarh	None	Krishna Chandra Satpati	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
61	Pingla	None	Pulin Behari Maity	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
62	Danton	None	Jnanendra Kumar Choudhury	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
63	Kharagpur	None	Moulana Muhammad Momtaz	Indian National Congress
64	Garbetta	None	Saroj Roy	Communist Party of India
65	Salboni	None	Bejoy Gopal Goswami	Independent
66	Patashpur	None	Janardan Sahu	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
67	Keshpur	None	Nagendra Doloi	Communist Party of India
67	Keshpur	None	Gangapada Kuor	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
68	Ghatal	None	Amulyacharan Dal	Communist Party of India
68	Ghatal	None	Jatishchandra Ghosh	Communist Party of India
69	Daspur	None	Mrigendra Bhattachariya	Communist Party of India
70	Panskura North	None	Rajanikanta Pramanik	Indian National Congress
71	Panskura South	None	Shyama Bhattacharyya	Indian National Congress
72	Sabang	None	Gopal Chandra Das Adhikary	Indian National Congress
73	Moyna	None	Kanilal Bhowmic	Communist Party of India
74	Tamluk	None	Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee	Indian National Congress
75	Mahisadal	None	Kumar Deba Prosad Garga	Independent
76	Nandigram North	None	Subodh Chandra Maity	Indian National Congress
77	Nandigram South	None	Prabir Chandra Jana	Indian National Congress
78	Sutahata	None	Kumar Chandra Jana	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
79	Ramnagar	None	Trailakya Nath Pradhan	Indian National Congress
80	Contai North	None	Sudhir Chandra Das	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
81	Contai South	None	Natendra Nath Das	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
82	Mohanpur	None	Basanta Kumar Panigrahi	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
83	Khejri	None	Koustuv Kanti Karan	Indian National Congress
83	Khejri	None	Abha Maity	Indian National Congress
84	Bhagawanpur	None	Rameswar Panda	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
85	Shyampur	None	Sasabindu Bera	Forward Bloc
86	Uluberia	None	Bijoy Mondal	Forward Bloc
86	Uluberia	None	Bibhuti Bhusan Ghosh	Forward Bloc
87	Bagnan	None	Sambhu Charan Mukhopadhaya	Indian National Congress
88	Amta South	None	Arabinda Roy	Indian National Congress
89	Amta Central	None	Tarapada Pramanik	Indian National Congress
90	Amta North	None	Alamohon Dass	Independent
91	Sankrail	None	Kanai Lal Bhattacharya	Forward Bloc
91	Sankrail	None	Kripa Sindhu Shaw	Forward Bloc
92	Jagatballavpur	None	Amrita Lal Hazra	Indian National Congress
93	Howrah North	None	Biren Banerjee	Communist Party of India
94	Howrah East	None	Saila Kumr Mukhopadhyaya	Indian National Congress
95	Howrah West	None	Bankim Chandra Kar	Indian National Congress
96	Howrah South	None	Beni Charan Dutta	Indian National Congress
97	Domjur	None	Tarapada Dey	Communist Party of India
98	Bally	None	Ratan Moni Chattopadhyaya	Indian National Congress
99	Singoor	None	Sourendra Nath Saha	Communist Party of India
99	Singoor	None	Ajit Kumar Basu	Communist Party of India
	Uttarpara	None	Monoranjan Hazra	Communist Party of India
101	Serampore	None	Jitendra Nath Lahiri	Indian National Congress
102	Bhadreswar	None	Byomkerh Majumdar	Indian National Congress
103	Goghat	None	Radha Krishna Pal	Independent
104	Arambagh	None	Madan Mohan Saha	Communist Party of India
104	Arambagh	None	Radha Krishna Pal	Independent
105	Tarakeswar	None	Parbati Hazra	Indian National Congress
106	Chinsurah	None	Jyotish Chandra Ghosh	Forward Bloc
106	Chinsurah	None	Radha Nath Das	Indian National Congress
107	Dhanialkhali	None	Dhirendra Narayan Mukherji	Indian National Congress
107	Dhanialkhali	None	Loso Hasda	Indian National Congress
108	Balagarh	None	Brindaban Chattopadhyay	Indian National Congress
109	Burdwan	None	Binoy Krishna Chaudhury	Communist Party of India
110	Khandaghosh	None	Jonab Mahammad Hossain	Indian National Congress
111	Raina	None	Dasarathi Tah	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
111	Raina	None	Mritunjoy Pramanik	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
112	Galsi	None	Mahitosh Saha	Indian National Congress
112	Galsi	None	Jadabendra Nath Panja	Indian National Congress
113	Ausgram	None	Ananda Gopal Mukhepadhyay	Indian National Congress
113	Ausgram	None	Kanai Lal Das	Indian National Congress
114	Raniganj	None	Banku Behari Mandal	Indian National Congress
114	Raniganj	None	Pashupati Nath Maliah	Independent
115	Kulti	None	Baidyanath Mandal	Indian National Congress
115	Kulti	None	Joynarayan Sarma	Indian National Congress
116	Asansol	None	Atindra Nath Bose	Forward Bloc
117	Kalna	None	Baidyanath Santal	Indian National Congress
117	Kalna	None	Rash Behari Sen	Indian National Congress
118	Purbasthali	None	Bimalananda Tarkatirtha	Indian National Congress
119	Manteswar	None	Annada Prasad Mandal	Indian National Congress
120	Katwa	None	Subodh Chowdhury	Communist Party of India
121	Mangalkot	None	Bhakta Chandra Roy	Indian National Congress
122	Ketugram	None	Tarapada Bandyopadhyay	Hindu Mahasabha
123	Karimpur	None	Haripada Chatterjee	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
124	Tehatta	None	Raghunandan Biswas	Indian National Congress
125	Kaliganj	None	Jonab S. M. Fazlur Rahaman	Indian National Congress
126	Nakesipara	None	Jagannath Majumdar	Indian National Congress
127	Chapra	None	Smarajit Bandopadhya	Indian National Congress
128	Krishnagar	None	Bejoy Lal Chattapadhya	Indian National Congress
129	Nabadwp	None	Niranjan Modak	Indian National Congress
130	Santipur	None	Sashibhusan Khan	Indian National Congress
131	Ranaghat	None	Bijoy Krishna Sarkar	Indian National Congress
131	Ranaghat	None	Keshab Chandra Mitra	Indian National Congress
132	Bongaon	None	Jiban Ratan Dhar	Indian National Congress
133	Gaighata	None	Ziaul Hoque	Indian National Congress
134	Habra	None	Tarun Kanti Ghosh	Indian National Congress
135	Sarup Nagar	None	Mahammad Ishaque	Indian National Congress
136	Deganga	None	Rafiuddin Ahmed	Indian National Congress
137	Haroa Sandeshkhali	None	Jyotish Chandra Roy Sardar	Indian National Congress
137	Haroa Sandeshkhali	None	Hemanta Kumar Ghoshal	Communist Party of India
138	Hasnabad	None	Bijesh Chandra Sen	Indian National Congress
138	Hasnabad	None	Rajkrishna Mandol	Indian National Congress
139	Basirhat	SC	Prafulla Banerjee	Indian National Congress
140	Dum Dum	None	Kanai Lal Das	Indian National Congress
141	Bhangar	None	Hemchandra Naskar	Indian National Congress
141	Bhangar	None	Gangadhar Naskar	Communist Party of India
142	Baruipore	None	Lalit Kumar Sinha	Communist Party of India
142	Baruipore	None	Abdus Shokur	Indian National Congress
143	Joynagar	None	Subodh Banerjee	Independent
143	Joynagar	None	Dintaran Moni	Independent
144	Baraset	None	Amulya Dhan Mukhopadhyay	Indian National Congress
145	Bizpur	None	Bipin Behari Ganguli	Indian National Congress
146	Naihati	None	Suresh Chandra Paul	Indian National Congress
147	Barrackpur	None	Phanindranath Mukhopadhya	Indian National Congress
148	Bhatpara	None	Dayaram Beri	Indian National Congress
149	Titagarh	None	Krishna Kumar Sukla	Indian National Congress
150	Baranagar	SC	Jyoti Basu	Communist Party of India
151	Mathurapur	None	Bhusan Chandra Das	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
151	Mathurapur	None	Brindaban Gayan	Indian National Congress
152	Saugar	None	Haripaba Baguli	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
153	Kulpi	None	Nalini Kanta Halder	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
153	Kulpi	None	Prankrishna Kumar	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
154	Mograhat	None	Ardhendu Sekhar Naskar	Indian National Congress
154	Mograhat	None	Abul Hashem	Indian National Congress
155	Falta	None	Jyotish Chandra Roy	Communist Party of India
156	Diamond Harbour	SC	Charu Chandra Bhandari	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
157	Bishnupur	None	Basanta Kumar Mal	Indian National Congress
157	Bishnupur	None	Provash Chandra Roy	Communist Party of India
158	Budge Budge	None	Bankim Mukherjee	Communist Party of India
159	Mohestola	None	Sudhir Chandra Bhandari	Communist Party of India
160	Garden Reach	None	S . M . Abdullah	Indian National Congress
161	Tollyganj	None	Jyotish Joarder	Independent
162	Behala	None	Biren Roy	Forward Bloc
163	Cossipur	None	Biswanath Roy	Indian National Congress
164	Shampukur	None	Hemanta Kumar Bose	Independent
165	Kumartuli	None	Nepal Chandra Roy	Forward Bloc
166	Burtola	None	Nirmal Chandra De	Indian National Congress
167	Muchipara	None	Sankar Prasad Mitra	Indian National Congress
168	Jorabagan	None	Ram Lagan Singh	Indian National Congress
169	Jorasanko	None	Amarendra Nath Basu	Forward Bloc
170	Belgachia	None	Ganesh Ghose	Communist Party of India
171	Manicktala	None	Ranendra Nath Sen	Communist Party of India
172	Beliaghata	None	Suhrid Kumar Mullick Choudhury	Forward Bloc
173	Barabazar	None	Iswar Das Jalan	Indian National Congress
174	Colootola	None	Anandi Lal Poddar	Indian National Congress
175	Sealdah	None	Pannalal Bose	Indian National Congress
176	Vidyasagar	None	Narayan Chandra Roy	Independent
177	Taltola	None	Moulavi Shamsul Haque	Indian National Congress
178	Baniapukur Ballygunge	None	Pulin Behari Khatic	Indian National Congress
178	Baniapukur Ballygunge	None	Jogesh Chandra Gupta	Indian National Congress
179	Bhawanipur	None	Mira Dutta Gupta	Indian National Congress
180	Kalighat	None	Manikuntala Sen	Communist Party of India
181	Tollygunge (north)	None	Priya Ranjan Sen	Indian National Congress
182	Tollygunge (south)	None	Ambica Chakravorty	Communist Party of India
183	Watgunge	None	Kali Mukherjee	Indian National Congress
184	Alipur	ST	Satyendra Kumar Basu	Indian National Congress
185	Fort	None	Narendra Nath Sen	Indian National Congress
186	Bowbazar	None	Bidhan Chandra Roy	Indian National Congress
187	Entally	None	Debendra Chandra Dev	Indian National Congress

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.

References

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

[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.

[WBECI1951-3] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2014-10-14.

[1955ReorgStates-4] "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. October 15, 1955. Retrieved July 25, 2015.

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