Elections to the

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

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

State Reorganization

On 1 November 1956, Mysore state was enlarged by the addition of Coorg State, the

Kollegal Kollegal is one of the major taluks in the Chamarajanagara District of Karnataka State in the south of India. It is also the largest taluk in Karnataka, Kollegal is well known for its silk industry which attracts traders from all over the sta ...

taluk of the Coimbatore district and the

South Kanara South Canara was a district of the Madras Presidency of British India, located at . It comprised the towns of Kassergode and Udipi and adjacent villages, with the capital in Mangalore city. South Canara was one of the most heterogeneous areas ...

district (except the

Kasaragod Kasaragod () is a municipal town and administrative headquarters of Kasaragod district in the state of Kerala, India. Established in 1966, Kasaragod was the first municipal town in the district. It is the northernmost district of Kerala an ...

taluk) of

Madras State Madras State was a state of India during the mid-20th century. At the time of its formation in 1950, it included the whole of present-day Tamil Nadu (except Kanyakumari district), Coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema, the Malabar region of North and ...

, the districts of Raichur and Gulbarga from western

Hyderabad State Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and ...

and the

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

speaking districts of Dharwar, Bijapur, North Kanara, and Belgaum, (except the Chandgad taluk of Belgaum district) from southern

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 ...

under

States Reorganisation Act, 1956 The States Reorganisation act, 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines. Although additional changes to India's state boundaries have been made since 1956, the States ...

. The Siruguppa taluk, the Bellary taluk, the Hospet taluk, and a small area of the Mallapuram sub-taluk were detached from the Mysore State. This resulted in an increase in assembly constituencies from 80 with 99 seats to 179 with 208 seats in 1957 assembly elections.

Constituencies

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%.

Results

!colspan=10, , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" , ! Political party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net change
in seats !! % of
Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote % , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , , 207 , , 150 , , 76 , , 72.12 , , 33,43,839 , , 52.08 , , 5.73 , - , , , 79 , , 18 , , ''New'' , , 8.65 , , 9,02,373 , , 14.06 , , ''New'' , - , , , 20 , , 1 , , 0 , , 0.48 , , 1,23,403 , , 1.92 , , 1.01 , - , , , 6 , , 2 , , 0 , , 0.96 , , 83,542 , , 1.30 , , 0.44 , - , , , 2 , , 2 , , ''New'' , , 0.96 , , 35,462 , , 0.55 , , ''New'' , - , , , 251 , , 35 , , 11 , , 16.83 , , 18,45,456 , , 28.74 , , N/A , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, ! style="text-align:center;" , Total Seats !! 208 ( 109) !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 1,25,15,312 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! colspan = 2, 64,20,159 (51.3%)

Elected members

References

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1957 1957 (Roman numerals, MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday, common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, t ...

Government of Mysore

State Reorganization

Constituencies

Results

Elected members

See also

References