The first Delhi Legislative Assembly election to the Delhi Legislative Assembly was held on 27 March 1952. Forty-eight seats were up for election. Six of the constituencies elected two assembly members, the remaining 36 constituencies elected a single member.
Results Congress emerged as the single largest party in the first legislative elections held in Delhi. Chaudhary Brahm Prakash of Indian National Congress was elected Chief Minister.
!colspan=10| |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! colspan=2|Party !! Seats Contested !! Won !! % of Seats !! Votes !! Vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | 47 || 39 || 81.25 || 271,812 || 52.09
| style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 31 || 5 || 10.42 || 114,207 || 21.89
| style="text-align:left;" |Scheduled Castes Federation | 5 || 0 || 0 || 15,592 || 2.99
| style="text-align:left;" |Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party | 7 || 0 || 0 || 13,646 || 2.62
| style="text-align:left;" |Socialist Party | 6 || 2 || 4.17 || 12,396 || 2.38
| style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha | 5 || 1 || 2.08 || 6,891 || 1.32
| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | 1 || 0 || 0 || 2,591 || 0.50
| style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad | 4 || 0 || 0 || 849 || 0.16
| style="text-align:left;" |Forward Bloc (Marxist Group) | 1 || 0 || 0 || 503 || 0.10
| style="text-align:left;" |Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1 || 0 || 0 || 307 || 0.06
| 78 || 1 || 2.08 || 82,972 || 15.90 |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 2| Total Seats ! 48 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 744,668 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 521,766 (58.52%)
Elected members S.No.ConstituencyMemberParty1 Kotla Feroze Shah Shanta Vasisht 2 Parliament Street Kaushaleshwar Prasad Shankara 3 Safdar Jang Daljit Singh 4 Lodhi Road Shiva Nandan Rishi 5 Puran Qilla Viney Nagar Pushpa Devi 6 Delhi Cantt Raghvendra Singh 7 Reading Road Amin Chand 8 Prafulla Ranjan Chakravarty 9 Chittar Gupta Kartar Singh 10 Mantola Mushtaq Rai 11 Ram Nagar Shankar Lal 12 Jhanday Walan Ghardhari Lal Salwan 13 Kashmere Gate Bhagwan Dass 14 Chandni Chowk Yudhvir Singh 15 Phatak Habash Khan Harkishan Lal 16 Maliwara Anand Raj 17 Ballimaran Sultan Yar Khan 18 Chawri Bazar Nuruddin Ahmad 19 Ajmeri Gate Shafiq Ur Rehman Kidwai 20 Sita Ram Bazar Turkman Gate Shiv Charan Dass 21 Sudershan Singh 22 Kucha Chelan Mushtaq Ahmad 23 Darya Ganj Gurmukh Nihal Singh 24 Chandrawal Hukam Singh 25 Roshanara Jagan Nath 26 Arya Pura Mangal Dass 27 Tokriwalan Gopinath 28 Deputy Ganj Sham Charan 29 Pahari Dhiraj Basti Jullahan Hem Chand Jain 30 Dhanpat Rai 31 Manak Pura B.D. Joshi 32 Tibbia College Ram Singh 33 Naiwala Dilawar Singh 34 Rehgar Pura Dev Nagar Daya Ram 35 Sushila Nayar 36 Kishan Ganj Anad Parbat Jag Pravesh Chandra 37 Civil Lines Krishna 38 Kingsway Camp Jang bahadur Singh 39 Wazirabad Fateh Singh 40 Shahdara Chinta Mani 41 Narela Mange Ram 42 Prabhu Dayal 43 Nangloi Chaudhary Brahm Prakash 44 Khanjhawla Bhup Singh 45 Isa Pur Subedat Hati Singh 46 Najaf Garh Ajit Singh 47 Mehrauli Mitter Sen 48 Sukh Dev
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. 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.
See also 1951–52 elections in India 1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
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