Mysore Legislative Assembly election, 1952

Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Mysore were held on March 26, 1952. 394 candidates contested for the 80 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 19 two-member constituencies and 61 single-member constituencies. ^[1]

Results

 Summary of results of the Mysore Legislative Assembly election, 1952 ^[1]

	Political party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %
	Indian National Congress		99	74	74.75	12,76,318	46.35
	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party		59	8	8.08	3,91,653	14.22
	Socialist Party		47	3	3.03	240390	8.73
	Scheduled Caste Federation		7	2	2.02	47,916	1.74
	Communist Party of India		5	1	1.01	25,116	0.91
	Independent		154	11	11.11	7,10,359	25.79
Total seats			99	Voters	54,66,487	Turnout	27,53,870 (50.38 %)

State Reorganization

On 1 November 1956, Mysore state was enlarged by the addition of Coorg State, the Kollegal taluk of the Coimbatore district and the South Kanara district (except the Kasaragod taluk) of Madras State, the districts of Raichur and Gulbarga from western Hyderabad State and the Kannada speaking districts of Dharwar, Bijapur, North Kanara and Belgaum, (except the Chandgad taluk of Belgaum district) from southern Bombay State under States Reorganisation Act, 1956. The Siruguppa taluk , the Bellary taluk , the Hospet taluk and a small area of the Mallapuram sub-taluk were detached from the Mysore State.^[2] This resulted in increase in assembly constituencies from 80 with 99 seats to 179 with 208 seats in 1957 assembly elections.

See also

• Mysore State
• 1951–52 elections in India
• Mysore Legislative Assembly election, 1957

References

1. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Mysore" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
2. "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. October 15, 1955. Retrieved July 25, 2015.