1957 Madras State Legislative Assembly election

Indian state legislative election February 2014 February 2014 Lok Sabha election 1957 Indian general election in Madras 1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election India parliamentary no 46.56% ( 8.19%) 1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election 1952 1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election 1962 1, 4, 6, 8 and 11 March 1957 (5 days) All 205 seats in the Legislature of Madras State K Kamaraj 1976 stamp of India (cropped).jpg 100 100 120 0 02 K. Kamaraj Indian National Congress Sattur 151 24Madras Legislative Assembly, 1952-1957, A Review http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/1st_1952/Review_1-52-57.pdf assembly.tn.gov.in Legislative Assembly Department Madras-2 https://web.archive.org/web/20211103025116/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/1st_1952/Review_1-52-57.pdf 3 November 2021 March 1957 dead 5,046,576 45.34% 10.46% CPI symbol.svg M. Kalyanasundaram Tiruchirappalli – II Communist Party of India 4 58 8,23,582 7.4% 5.78% Chief Minister K. Kamaraj Indian National Congress K. Kamaraj Indian National Congress 103 The second legislative assembly election to the Madras state (presently Tamil Nadu) was held for 5 days; 1, 4, 6, 8 and 11 March 1957.Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly https://assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/2nd_1957/overview.php https://web.archive.org/web/20250607001743/https://assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/2nd_1957/overview.php 7 June 2025 23 May 2026 www.assembly.tn.gov.in en live This was the first election held after the linguistic reorganisation of Madras State in 1956. Indian National Congress and its leader, K. Kamaraj won the election and defeated their rival, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. In 1954, due to the resignation of C. Rajagopalachari, for his controversial Kula Kalvi Thittam, the leadership of Congress was contested between K. Kamaraj, and C. Subramaniam (who got the support of M. Bhaktavatsalam). Eventually, K. Kamaraj, won the support of the party, was elected leader and chief minister of Madras State in 1954. In a surprise move, he appointed both M. Bhaktavatsalam and C. Subramaniam, to his cabinet, allowing great unity amongst the Congress that ruled the state of Madras, for the next decade. This election saw future DMK leaders M. Karunanidhi and K. Anbazhagan win their first MLA seats in the legislative assembly.Tamil Nadu Government website Delimitation and reorganisation On 1 October 1953, a separate Andhra State consisting of the Telugu-speaking areas of the composite Madras State was formed, and the Kannada-speaking area of Bellary District was merged with the then Mysore State. This reduced the strength of the Legislative Assembly to 231. On 1 November 1956, the States Reorganisation Act 1956 took effect, and consequently, the constituencies in the erstwhile Malabar district were merged with the Kerala State. This further reduced the strength to 190. The Tamil-speaking area of Kerala (present-day Kanyakumari district) and Shenkottah taluk were added to Madras State.http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1955_7/42/reorganisation_of_statesthe_approach_and_arrangements.pdf Reorganisation of States, 1955 The Economic Weekly 15 October 1955 25 July 2015 According to the new Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order 1956, made by the Delimitation Commission of India under the provisions of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956, the strength of the Madras Legislative Assembly was increased to 205. The 1957 elections were conducted for these 205 seats. In 1959, as a result of The Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act 1959, one member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly was allotted to Madras, increasing its Legislative Assembly strength to 206. Two-member constituencies Out of the total 167 constituencies in the state, 38 were two-member constituencies, 37 of which had one reserved for Scheduled caste candidates and one for Scheduled tribe candidates.The State Legislature - Origin and Evolution https://web.archive.org/web/20100413233934/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/history/history.htm 13 April 2010 These constituencies were larger in size and had a greater number of voters (more than 1,00,000)http://164.100.47.132/lssnew/constituent/vol4p5.pdf Constituent Assembly of India Debates Vol IV, Friday 18 July 1947 10 November 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110703135909/http://164.100.47.132/lssnew/constituent/vol4p5.pdf 3 July 2011 dead when compared to general constituencies. Two separate lists of candidates, a general list and a reserved list, are contested in those constituencies. Each voter had to cast two votes, one for each list. The two winners were chosen as follows: Reserved Member: Candidate with the most votes among the reserved (SC/ST) list candidates General Member: Candidate with the most votes among the rest of the candidates, excluding the Reserved Member (including both reserved and general lists). This system led to anomalies. In some cases, like the Coimbatore-II constituency in the 1957 election, both elected members belonged to the reserved list; the candidate with the second highest number of votes in the reserved list secured more votes than the highest vote-getter in the general list. Multiple members were elected only in the 1952 and 1957 elections, as double-member representation was abolished in 1961 by the enactment of the Two-Member Constituencies Abolition Act, 1961.Zoya Hasan Eswaran Sridharan R Sudharshan https://books.google.com/books?id=Zgt2JdUrsHUC 2005 India's living constitution: ideas, practices, controversies Anthem Press 978-1-84331-136-2 360–63 Parties and issues Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India, Forward Bloc, Praja Socialist Party, Socialist Party, Congress Reform Committee (Indian National Democratic Congress), and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) were the major parties contesting this election. This was the first election contested by the DMK since its formation in 1949. The decision to contest elections was taken in 1956 at the party's Trichy conference. The party fielded its candidates in 8 parliamentary and 117 assembly seats as independents since it was not an officially recognised party.The success of India's democracy Kohli Atul Cambridge University Press 2001 0-521-80530-9 89 Atul Kohli The increased Tamilian character of the Congress party after the appointment of K. Kamaraj, a non-Brahman, as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, robbed DMK of its main electoral plank as the sole proponent of Tamil nationalism. It increasingly changed its focus to economic issues and the slower industrialization of the South as an election issue. The DMK election manifesto had a socialist image, and the creation of Dravida Nadu became a side issue as it implicitly accepted the prevailing constitutional order.The DMK and the Politics of Tamil Nationalism Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. Pacific Affairs 1964–1965 37 4 396–411 2755132 10.2307/2755132 R. Manivannan 1991 Tamil Nadu Elections: Issues, Strategies and Performance Economic and Political Weekly 27 4 164–170 25 January 1992 4397536 Periyar E. V. Ramasamy issued a statement in support of K. Kamaraj before the commencement of the election. In October 1956, the central executive of Dravidar Kazhagam resolved to support K. Kamaraj.Urban Life and Populist Radicalism: Dravidian Politics in Madras Lloyd I. Rudolph The Journal of Asian Studies May 1961 20 3 283–297 2050816 10.2307/2050816 145124008 Since Mr. Kamaraj has done his best to serve the Tamilians, since he has changed Acharyar's educational system designed to perpetuate the caste system, since he has conferred many jobs and many benefits on Tamilians in the educational and other spheres and since the Brahman and DMK people are trying to oust him from power, it has become the duty of all Tamilians to support Mr. Kamaraj and his followers in the electionThe Hindu (10 October 1956) K. Kamaraj accepted the support of Dravidar Kazhagam and said if the Kazhagam canvassed votes for him out of their own free will, he could not possibly tell them he did not want their votes. He also made it clear that the Congress party cannot support a party that is communal in nature, and he did not in any way share E. V. Ramasamy's views.The Hindu (6 March 1957) K. Kamaraj's decision to accept support and provide candidature to some former members of Dravidar Kazhagam caused division within Congress, resulting in a new party called the Congress Reform Committee (CRC). Though the party was created in the last moment, it fielded candidates in 12 parliamentary and 55 assembly seats. James R. Roach India's 1957 elections Far Eastern Survey 26 5 65–78 May 1957 3024537 10.2307/3024537 Forward Bloc Leader Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar accused the ruling Congress party of engaging in vote-buying practices by distributing money to voters and urged the electorate to reject such inducements, describing them as immoral. He pointed out that people willingly spent ₹2 to ₹5 to witness Jallikattu, and argued that accepting ₹5 or ₹10 in exchange for exercising one’s franchise was wrong.17 December 2017 The six-decade-old problem of cash-for-vote https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2017/Dec/17/the-six-decade-old-problem-of-cash-for-vote-1729412.html 17 December 2017 newindianexpress en-IN Voting and results Source: Election Commission of India Summary of results of the 1957 Madras Legislative Assembly electionhttp://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Madras_1957.pdf Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras Election Commission of India 2015-07-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20130127200447/https://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Madras_1957.pdf 27 Jan 2013 yes !colspan=9|File:India Madras Legislative Assembly 1957.svg |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" | ! Political party !! Flag !! Seats Contested !! Won !! % of Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Indian National Congress | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | INC Flag Official|35px | 204 || 151 (1) || 73.66 || 50,46,576 || 45.34 || 10.46 |- | Communist Party of India | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | 35px | 58 || 4 (58) || 1.95 || 8,23,582 || 7.40 || 5.78 |- | Praja Socialist Party | style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party |35px | 23 || 2 (New) || 0.98 || 2,93,778 || 2.64 || New |- | Independent politician | | 602 || 48 ( 14) || 23.41 || 49,67,060 || 44.62 || N/A |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| ! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 205 (170) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 2,39,05,575 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|1,11,30,996 (46.56%) |} DMK was not officially recognised as a party by the Election Commission of India until 1962, so it was registered as an independent party. The Congress Reform Committee was the second and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was the third party in the assembly. Congress won 45% of the vote, the CRC 8%, and the DMK 14%. By constituency *Elected as Chief Minister of Madras State**DMK Candidates contesting as independents S.No Constituency Winner Party Runner up PartyMadras City1WashermanpetM. Mayandi NadarINCN. JeevarathnamIND2HarbourU. Krishna RaoINCG. Rajamannar ChettiarPSP3Basin BridgeT. N. AnandanayakiINCN. V. NatarajanIND4Perambur1) Pakkiriswami Pillai 3) Satyavani MuthuIND IND2) T. S. Govindaswamy 4) T. RajagopalINC INC5Thousand lightsA. V. P. AsaithambiINDK. Venkatasamy NaiduINC6EgmoreAnbazhaganINDRadhakrishnanINC7TriplicaneK. S. G. Haja ShareefINCAppaduraiIND8MylaporeC. R. RamaswamyINCKumari S. VijayalakshmiPSP9T. NagarK. VinayakamINCA. S. JesupathamINDChingleput10Maduranthakam1) O. Venkatasubba Reddy 4) EllappanINC IND2) O.N. Doraibabu 3) V.L. RajaIND IND11Chengalpattu1) Muthuswamy Naicker 2) AppavuINC3) Ramachandran 4) RathinamIND12SaidapetA. S. Doraiswami ReddiarINCN. P. LoganathanIND13Ponneri1) V. Govindasami Naidu 2) T. P. ElumalaiINC INC3) T. Shanmugam 4) Changam PillaiIND IND14GummidipundiKamalambuiammalINCVenugopal ReddyIND15Tiruvallur1) Eakambara Mudaly 2) V. S. ArunachalamINC INC3) N. Govindasamy Naidu 4) M. DharmalingamIND IND16SriperumbudurM. BhaktavatsalamINCC. V. M. AnnamalaiIND17UthiramerurV. K. Ramaswamy MudaliarINDK. Duraiswamy NayagarINC18KancheepuramC. N. Annadurai1957 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India 'INDP. S. SrinivasanINCNorth Arcot19ArakkonamS. C. Sadayappa MudaliarINCThomasIND20SholinghurB. Bhakthavatsalu NaiduINCM. Subramanian NaickerIND21CheyyarP. RamachandranINCV. Darmalinga NayagarIND22Vandavasi1) M. Ramachandra Reddy 3) D. DasarathanINC INC2) A. Dharma Gounder 4) S. MuthulingamIND IND23ArcotS. Khader SheriffINCLachaumananIND24RanipetChandrasekara NaickerINCR. A. 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Marappa GounderINCKaruppa GounderIND165MettupalayamD. Raghubadhi DeviINCMadhannanINDNilgiris166CoonoorJ. Matha GowderINCH. B. Ari GowderIND167UdagamandalamB. K. Linga GowderINCK. BhojanIND Government formation and aftermath Although the election results were announced in the first week of April, the swearing-in ceremony took place on April 14. The Legislative Assembly convened later, on April 29. At Fort St. George in Madras (now Chennai), a designated chamber existed for the Governor. From there, Governor A. J. John proceeded ceremonially to the council chamber to administer the oath of office. K. Kamaraj was sworn in as Chief Minister, along with six ministers M. Bhaktavatsalam, C. Subramaniam, M. A. Manickavelu, P. Kakkan, V. Ramaiah, and Lourdhammal Simon. The ceremony concluded within 15 minutes. R. Venkataraman took office separately on a later date before the Governor at Ootacamund. At the time, political meetings and public gatherings were commonly held along the Marina Beach in Madras, at venues known by names such as Tilakar Thidal and Seerani Arangam, though such gatherings were later discontinued. Following the 1957 elections, thanksgiving meetings were organized by both the Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) at Marina Beach. The Congress meeting, held on April 8, was presided over by P. Kakkan. Addressing the gathering, Kamaraj stated that an overwhelming victory for the Congress would be undesirable, emphasizing the need for a strong opposition in a democracy. He noted that although he had predicted around 150 seats, many had doubted it, and attributed his assessment to his understanding of the working classes. He stressed that governance should justify public trust and address common issues such as poverty and unemployment. At a meeting in Royapuram, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam elected C. N. Annadurai as Legislative Assembly leader and K. Anbazhagan as deputy leader, with M. Karunanidhi as chief whip. Annadurai urged party workers to uphold public trust and highlighted the importance of a responsible opposition in a democracy..https://www.dinamani.com/amp/story/editorial-articles/special-stories/2026/Mar/17/election-1957-dmk-entered-the-tamil-nadu-legislative-assembly-for-the-first-time தேர்தல் 1957: சட்டப்பேரவைக்குள் முதன்முதலாக நுழைந்த திமுக! 7 March 2026 Dinamani 2026-03-17 Kamaraj's second cabinet Kamaraj's council of ministers during his second tenure as chief minister (1 April 1957 – 1 March 1962)Kandaswamy. P The political Career of K. Kamaraj Concept Publishing Company 2008 62–64 46929395 B00069WY4K https://books.google.com/books?id=bOjT3qffnMkC MinisterPortfoliosK. KamarajChief Minister, Public, Planning and Development (including Local development Works, Women's Welfare, Community Projects and Rural Welfare), National Extension SchemeM. BhaktavatsalamHomeC. SubramaniamFinanceR. VenkataramanIndustriesM. A. Manickavelu NaickerRevenueP. Kakkan WorksV. RamaiahElectricityLourdhammal SimonLocal Administration See also Elections in Tamil Nadu Legislature of Tamil Nadu Government of Tamil Nadu Footnotes and references 2 External links Election Commission of India 1957 Election expanded Category:State Assembly elections in Madras Madras Category:1950s in Madras State Category:March 1957 in Asia