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The first Delhi Legislative Assembly election to the Delhi Legislative Assembly was held on 27 March 1952.[1][2] Forty-eight seats were up for election.[2] Six of the constituencies elected two assembly members, the remaining 36 constituencies elected a single member.[1]
Results
Congress emerged as the single largest party in the first legislative elections held in Delhi.[1] Chaudhary Brahm Prakash of Indian National Congress was elected Chief Minister.
| Political Party | Flag | Seats Contested |
Won | % of Seats |
Votes | Vote % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | 47 | 39 | 81.25 | 2,71,812 | 52.09 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Bharatiya Jana Sangh/meta/color;" width=0.3em | | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 31 | 5 | 10.42 | 1,14,207 | 21.89 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Socialist Party (India)/meta/color;" width=0.3em | | Socialist Party | 6 | 2 | 4.17 | 12,396 | 2.38 | |
| Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha | 5 | 1 | 2.08 | 6,891 | 1.32 | ||
| Independent | 78 | 1 | 2.08 | 82,972 | 15.90 | ||
| Total Seats | 48 | Voters | 7,44,668 | Turnout | 5,21,766 (58.52 %) | ||
State Reorganization
On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956, Delhi was made a Union Territory under the direct administration of the President of India and the Delhi Legislative Assembly was abolished simultaneously.[3] Next legislative assembly elections in Delhi were held in 1993, when Union Territory of Delhi was formally declared as National Capital Territory of Delhi by the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the Indian constitution.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Delhi" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kaushik, S. L.; Rama Patnayak (1995). Modern Governments and Political Systems. Vol. 3. New Delhi: Mittal Publications. p. 65.
- ↑ "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. 15 October 1955. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ↑ "Sixty-ninth amendment". Delhi Assembly official website. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016.
