The West Bengal State Assembly Election of 1952 was a part of the series of Legislative Assembly elections in 1952.

Alliances

On the political left, two alliances had emerged the United Socialist Organisation of India (an alliance between the Communist Party of India, the Socialist Republican Party and the Forward Bloc (Marxist Group)) and the

People's United Socialist Front The People's United Socialist Front was an electoral alliance in West Bengal, India, formed ahead of the 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. The front was composed of the Socialist Party, the Forward Bloc (Ruikar) and the Revolutiona ...

(comprising the

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...

, the Forward Bloc (Ruikar) and the

Revolutionary Communist Party of India The Revolutionary Communist Party of India ( RCPI) is a political party in India. The party was founded as the Communist League by Saumyendranath Tagore in 1934, breaking away from the Communist Party of India (CPI). RCPI led armed uprisings aft ...

).M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. ''Communist Parties and United Front - Experience in Kerala and West Bengal''.

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 213.

Results

Alliance wise result

The election was won by the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

, who got a majority of its own in the assembly. The communists became the largest opposition party.

Party wise result

, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" , ! Political party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote % , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 236 , , 150 , , 63.56 , , 2,889,994 , , 38.82 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party The Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (''Farmer Worker People's Party'') was a political party of India. Established in 1951, it merged with the Socialist Party to form the Praja Socialist Party in the following year. History In June, 1951 Indian ...

, , 129 , , 15 , , 6.36 , , 667,446 , , 8.97 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of India ,

, 86 , , 28 , , 11.86 , , 800,951 , , 10.76 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Bharatiya Jana Sangh The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) (ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the po ...

, , 85 , , 9 , , 3.81 , , 415,458 , , 5.58 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Forward Bloc (Marxist Group) , , 48 , , 11 , , 4.66 , , 393,591 , , 5.29 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 63 , , 0 , , , , 215,382 , , 2.89 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha The Hindu Mahasabha (officially Akhil Bhārat Hindū Mahāsabhā, ) is a Hindu nationalist political party in India. Founded in 1915, the Mahasabha functioned mainly as a pressure group advocating the interests of orthodox Hindus before the ...

, , 33 , , 4 , , 1.69 , , 1,76,762 , , 2.37 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Forward Bloc (Ruikar) , , 32 , , 2 , , 0.85 , , 1,07,905 , , 1.45 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Revolutionary Socialist Party , , 16 , , 0 , , , , 63,173 , , 0.85 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Tagore) , , 10 , , 0 , , , , 32,859 , , 0.44 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Bolshevik Party of India The Bolshevik Party of India (abbreviated BPI) is an Indian political party in India. The party was founded in 1939. The party had a certain role in the trade union movement in West Bengal and was briefly represented in the state government in 19 ...

, , 8 , , 0 , , , , 20117 , , 0.27 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad (RRP, "All India Council of Ram's Kingdom") was an Indian Hindu nationalist political party founded by Swami Karpatri in 1948. The RRP won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections to the national Parliament an ...

, , 14 , , 0 , , , , 7,100 , , 0.10 , - , , , 614 , , 19 , , 8.05 , , 1,653,165 , , 22.21 , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, Total seats ! 238 !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 17,628,239 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! 7,443,903 (42.23%)

State Reorganization

On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956, a portion of the Purnea district east of the river Mahananda and the Purulia sub-district of the Manbhum district in the south (except Char Thana) were transferred from

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

to West Bengal. Thus, assembly constituencies in West Bengal increased from 187 (238 seats) to 195 (252 seats) during 1957 assembly elections.

References

{{West Bengal assembly elections State Assembly elections in West Bengal 1950s in West Bengal

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the four ...