Elections to the

Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the '' de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the sec ...

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. The incumbent

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 ...

won reelection, with Yashwantrao Chavan continuing as

Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

. Despite suffering a decrease in seats, the incumbent government retained its simple majority in the legislative assembly.

State reorganization

On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956,

Bombay state Bombay State was a large Indian state created at the time of India's Independence, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding S ...

was enlarged by the addition of Saurashtra state and

Kutch state Kutch State was a state within India from 1947 to 1956. Its capital was Bhuj. The state's territory now forms a Kachchh district within the Indian state of Gujarat. History Kutch State was formed out of the territory of the former princely ...

, the Marathi-speaking districts of Nagpur Division of

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital city, capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar, and Rewa, India, Rewa being the othe ...

, and the Marathi speaking

Marathwada Marathwada () is a proposed state and geographical region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It was formed during the Nizam's rule and was part of the then Hyderabad State. The region coincides with the Aurangabad division of Maharashtra. I ...

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 Mysore State, colloquially Old Mysore, was a state within the Dominion of India and the later Republic of India from 1947 until 1956. The state was formed by renaming the Kingdom of Mysore, and Bangalore replaced Mysore as the state's capita ...

, while Abu Road taluk of the Banaskantha district was transferred to

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...

. Hence the constituencies increased from 315 to 396 in 1957 elections.

Results

List of Political Parties participated in 1957 Bombay Assembly Elections.

, - !colspan=10, , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" , ! Political party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net change
in seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote % , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 396 , , 234 , , 36 , , 81,31,604 , , 48.66% , , 1.29% , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Praja Socialist Party The Praja Socialist Party, abbreviated as PSP, was an Indian political party. It was founded when the Socialist Party, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh (Sinha), merged with the Kisan Mazd ...

, , 98 , , 36 , , 27 ''(from SP)'' , , 14,98,700 , , 8.97% , , 2.99% ''(from SP)'' , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Peasants and Workers Party of India The Peasants and Workers Party of India is a Marxist political party in Maharashtra, India. The party was founded on 13.06.1948, having its roots from the pre-Independence period and has around 1,00,000 members. The influence of the party is lar ...

, , 55 , , 31 , , 17 , , 11,13,436 , , 6.66% , , 0.21% , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Scheduled Castes Federation The Republican Party of India (RPI, often called the Republican Party or simply Republican) is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The 'Training School for Entrance to Polit ...

, , 48 , , 13 , , 12 , , 10,41,355 , , 6.23% , , 3.13% , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of India , , 32 , , 13 , , 12 , , 6,07,383 , , 3.63% , , 2.19% , - , , 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 ...

, , 23 , , 4 , , 4 , , 2,60,826 , , 1.56% , , 1.52% , - , , 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 ...

, , 10 , , 1 , , 1 , , 71,514 , , 0.43% , , 0.11% , - , , , 10, , 0 , , , , 14,794, , 0.09%, , 1.03% , - , , , 400 , , 64 , , 45 , , 39,72,548 , , 23.77% , , 7.53% , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, Total !! 1072 !! 396 !! 81 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout (Voters) 1,67,12,160 (3,14,40,079) !! 53.16% !! 2.38%

Elected members

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State reorganization

Results

Elected members

See also

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