1957 Bombay Legislative Assembly election

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Elections to the Bombay Legislative Assembly were held on 25 February 1957. 1146 candidates contested for the 339 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 57 two-member constituencies and 282 single-member constituencies.^[1]

State reorganization[edit]

On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956, Bombay state was enlarged by the addition of Saurashtra state and Kutch state, the Marathi-speaking districts of Nagpur Division of Madhya Pradesh, and the Marathi speaking Marathwada region of Hyderabad. The state's southernmost Kannada-speaking districts of Dharwad, Bijapur, North Kannada and Belgaum (excluding the Chandgad taluka) were transferred to Mysore state, while Abu Road taluk of the Banaskantha district was transferred to Rajasthan.^[2] Hence the constituencies increased from 315 to 396 in 1957 elections.

Results[edit]

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	Political party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	Net change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
	Indian National Congress		396	234	35	59.10	81,31,604	48.66	0.71
	Praja Socialist Party		100	36	New	9.09	14,98,700	8.97	New
	Peasants and Workers Party of India		55	31	17	7.83	11,13,436	6.66	0.21
	Scheduled Castes Federation		51	13	12	3.28	10,41,355	6.23	3.13
	Communist Party of India		34	13	12	3.28	6,07,383	3.63	2.19
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh		24	4	4	1.01	2,60,826	1.56	1.52
	Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha		11	1	1	0.25	71,514	0.43	0.09
Template:Party name with colour		464	64	11	16.16	39,72,548	23.77	N/A
			Total seats	396 ( 81)	Voters	3,14,40,079	Turnout	1,67,12,160 (53.16%)

References[edit]

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↑ "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. 15 October 1955. Retrieved 25 July 2015.

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State reorganization[edit]

Results[edit]

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