1957 Mysore Legislative Assembly election

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1957 Mysore Legislative Assembly election
← 1952 25 February 1957 1962 →
All 208 seats in the Mysore Legislative Assembly
105 seats needed for a majority
Turnout51.3%
  First party Second party
  Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa 2003 stamp of India.jpg
Leader S. Nijalingappa
Party INC Praja Socialist Party
Leader's seat Molakalmuru
Last election 74 Did not contest
Seats won 150 18
Seat change Increase76 N/A
Popular vote 33,43,839 9,02,373
Percentage 52.08% 14.06%
Swing Increase5.73% N/A
Chief Minister before election

S. Nijalingappa
INC

Elected Chief Minister

S. Nijalingappa
INC

Elections to the Mysore Legislative Assembly were held on 25 February 1957. 589 candidates contested for the 208 seats of the 179 constituencies in the Assembly.

State Reorganization[edit]

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.[1] This resulted in an increase in assembly constituencies from 80 with 99 seats to 179 with 208 seats in 1957 assembly elections.

Constituencies[edit]

There were 29 two-member constituencies and 179 single-member constituencies. Out of the 179 constituencies, 27 were reserved for Scheduled Castes and 1 was reserved for Scheduled Tribe. There were 73,01,080 electors in single-member constituencies while 27,05,851 electors in two-member constituencies. Total electors in the state were 100,06,931 and the electors who were entitled to vote were 1,25,15,312 (including two-member constituencies). 39,59,518 electors voted in single-member constituency while 24,60,641 electors cast their vote in double-member constituencies. The poll percentage in the state was 51.3%.[2]

Results[edit]

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e • d 
Political party Flag Seats
Contested		 Won Net change
in seats		 % of
Seats 		Votes Vote % Change in
vote %
Indian National Congress 207 150 Increase 76 72.12 33,43,839 52.08 Increase 5.73
Praja Socialist Party 79 18 New 8.65 9,02,373 14.06 New
Communist Party of India CPI-banner.svg 20 1 Steady 0 0.48 1,23,403 1.92 Increase 1.01
Scheduled Caste Federation 6 2 Steady 0 0.96 83,542 1.30 Decrease 0.44
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 Peasants and Workers Party of India 2 2 New 0.96 35,462 0.55 New
Template:Party name with colour 251 35 Increase 11 16.83 18,45,456 28.74 N/A
Total Seats 208 (Increase 109) Voters 1,25,15,312 Turnout 64,20,159 (51.3%)

<section end=Results />

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. 15 October 1955. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named MYSECI1957
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