Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1952
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The first Delhi Legislative Assembly election to the Delhi Legislative Assembly was held on March 27, 1952. Forty-eight seats were up for election. Six of the constituencies elected two assembly members, the remaining 36 constituencies elected a single member.
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.
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.
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