West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1952

West Bengal State Assembly Election of 1952

31 March 1952

1957 →

All 187 seats in the West Bengal state assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	Bidhan Chandra Roy	Jyoti Basu
Party	INC	CPI
Leader's seat	Bowbazar	Baranagar
Seats won	150	28
Seat change	n/a	n/a
Percentage	38.82%	10.76%
Swing	n/a	n/a

Chief Minister before election

Bidhan Chandra Roy
INC

Chief Minister

Bidhan Chandra Roy
INC

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

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 (comprising the Socialist Party, the Forward Bloc (Ruikar) and the Revolutionary Communist Party of India).

The election was won by the Indian National Congress, who got a majority of its own in the assembly. The communists became the largest opposition party.

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

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