Elections to the Bhopal Legislative Assembly were held on March 27, 1952. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats, and Shankar Dayal Sharma became the chief minister.
Constituencies
The Bhopal Legislative Assembly consisted of 30 seats, distributed in seven two-member constituencies and sixteen single-member constituencies. A total of 91 contestants were in the fray for these 30 seats. Silwani legislative assembly had the maximum number of contestants (eight candidates), while Ichhawar had the minimum contestants (only one candidate, who was elected unopposed).
Political parties
Four national parties, along with Kisan Mazdoor Mandal, took part in the assembly election. Indian National Congress emerged as the single largest party, while no other party crossed into double digits.
Results
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" !colspan=8| |- ! class="unsortable" | ! Political party !! Seats contested !! Won !! % of seats !! Votes !! Vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | ! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | 28 || 25 || 83.33 || 1,17,656 || 52.01
! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha | 9 || 1 || 3.33 || 31,684 || 14.01
! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | Independent politician | 32 || 4 || 13.33 || 51,736 || 22.87 |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 2| Total seats ! 30 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 6,10,182 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 2,26,210 (37.07%)
Elected members
ConstituencyMemberParty1 Shahajahanabad Jalauddin Qureshi 2 Shishmahal Syed Ajazuddin 3 Jahangirabad Inayatullah Tarzi Mashriqui 4 Bairagarh Baboolal Bhartia Lila Rai 5 Huzur Sardarmal Lalwani 6 Berasia Shankar Dayal Sharma 7 Nazirabad Shankar Dayal 8 Sehore Umrao Singh Sultan Mohd Khan 9 Shyampur Har Kishan Singh Baboolal 10 Ashta Chandan Mal Gopi Das 11 Kotri Maimoona Sultan 12 Ichhawar Kesarimal Jain 13 Nasrullahganj Vanshi Dhar 14 Budhni Lachmi Narain 15 Raisen Baboolal Kamta Prashad 16 Begumganj Kundan Lal 17 Sultanganj Baboolal Kamal 18 Goharganj Dalip Singh Gulab Chand 19 Amrawad Narbada Charan Lal 20 Bareli Shyam Sundar 21 Silwani Lila Dhar Rathi Daulat Shah 22 Udaipur Nit Gopal 23 Deori Ram Karan Lal
State reorganisation and merger
On November 1, 1956, Bhopal State was merged into Madhya Pradesh under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
See also
1951–52 elections in India Bhopal State (1949–56) 1952 Madhya Bharat Legislative Assembly election 1952 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election 1952 Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
References