1951–52 Indian general election in Madras State

none July 2016 July 2016 State Assembly election 1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election Indian general election in Madras, 1951 India parliamentary no 1957 (Madras) →1957 (AP) →1957 (Kerala) →1957 (Mysore) November 1951 75 (of 489) seats in the Lok Sabha 26,980,961 15,198,376 (56.33%) 130x130px K. Kamaraj Indian National Congress Srivilliputhur 35 7,253,452 36.39% 130x130px A. K. Gopalan Cannanore Communist Party of India 8 1,783,407 8.95% Madras in India (1951).svg 200px Madras state Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Jawaharlal Nehru Indian National Congress Jawaharlal Nehru Indian National Congress The 1951–52 Indian general election was the first democratic national election held in India after Independence, and the polls in Madras state were held for 62 constituencies with 75 seats. This State had the second largest number of seats, after Uttar Pradesh. The result was a victory for Indian National Congress winning 35 out of the 75 seats. While the remaining seats were won by left and independent parties, opposed to Congress. However, Congress stalwarts such as N. G. Ranga, Durgabai Deshmukh, and Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao lost in that election from the Telugu-speaking areas then referred as Andhra. Congress lost in 22 out of the 28 seats (from 23 constituencies) in majority Telugu-speaking areas (i.e. Andhra region). Reason for the poor performance in Andhra region was attributed to the party's delay in the formation of a separate State for Telugu people. It eventually led to the formation of the Andhra State in 1953 and later the linguistic reorganization of Indian states in 1956 where Kannada and Malayalam majority speaking areas were merged with Mysore and Kerala States respectively. Voting and results Results by Alliance INCSEATSCPISEATSOTHERSSEATSINC35CPI8IND15KMPP5Others12TOTAL (1951)35TOTAL (1951)8TOTAL (1951)32 Independent parties are local state parties, that are unrecognised nationally Results by Parties Indian National Congress 7253452 35 Communist Party of India 1783407 8 Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party 1952197 6 Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party 889292 4 Commonweal Party 325398 3 Socialist Party 1055423 2 Forward Bloc (Marxist Group) 332196 1 Indian Union Muslim League 79470 1 Independents 4614210 15 Others (7parties) 1649116 0 15063841 134535 26980961 Results by Linguistic areas Results by Tamil-majority constituencies These were 31 constituencies with 38 seats, namely Madras, Thiruvallur (2 seats), Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Vellore (2 seats), Vandavasi, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Salem, Erode (2 seats), Tiruchengode, Tiruppur, Pollachi, Coimbatore, Pudukkottai, Perambalur, Tiruchirappalli, Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, Mayuram (2 seats), Cuddalore (2 seats), Tindivanam (2 seats), Tirunelveli, Srivaikuntam, Sankaranainarkoil, Aruppukottai, Ramanathapuram, Srivilliputhur, Madurai (2 seats), Periyakulam and Dindigul. Madras constituency had significant Telugu population. Indian National Congress 4119799 26 Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party 872418 4 Commonweal Party 302889 2 Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party 455499 1 Communist Party of India 487555 1 Forward Block (Marxist Group) 235938 1 Independents 2448591 3 Others 892360 0 7208237 64377 13726706 Results by Telugu-majority constituencies These were 23 constituencies with 28 seats, namely Pathapatnam, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam (2 seats), Kakinada, Rajahmundry (2 seats), Eluru (2 seats), Masulipatnam, Gudivada, Vijayawada, Tenali, Guntur, Narasaraopet, Ongole (2 seats), Nellore, Nandyal, Kurnool, Anantapur, Cuddapah, Chittoor (2 seats) and Tirupati. Congress stalwarts such as N. G. Ranga, Durgabai Deshmukh, and Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao lost in that election. Reason for the poor performance of Congress in Telugu-speaking areas both in general then referred as Andhra was attributed to their delay in the formation of a separate state for Telugu people. It eventually led to the formation of the Andhra state in 1953 and later the linguistic reorganization of Indian States in 1956. Indian National Congress 2299670 7 Communist Party of India 1067618 6 Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party 882126 2 Socialist Party 430208 2 Independents 1870766 11 Others 1224459 0 6068222 54196 10058378 Results by Kannada-majority constituencies These were 3 constituencies with 3 seats, namely Bellary, South Kanara (North) and South Kanara South. However, Bellary constituency had significant Telugu minority population. Indian National Congress 319717 3 Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party 174046 0 Socialist Party 36371 0 Independents 116319 0 646453 5774 1043246 Results by Malayalam-majority constituencies These were 5 constituencies with 6 seats, namely Cannanore, Tellicherry, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Ponnani (2 seats). Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party 440526 3 Indian National Congress 537775 1 Communist Party of India 228234 1 Muslim League 79470 1 Independents 182652 0 Others 229155 0 1310669 10188 2152621 List of Elected MPs Telugu speaking areas had 28 seats from 23 constituencies (constituency serial numbers 1 to 24 except 19), Tamil speaking areas had 38 seats from 31 constituencies (constituency serial numbers 25 to 55), Kannada speaking areas had 3 seats from 3 (constituency serial numbers 19, 56 and 57) and Malayalam speaking areas had 6 seats from 5 constituencies (constituency numbers 58 to 62). Kannada-majority Bellary and Tamil-majority Madras has significant Telugu populations. ConstituencyNoS No. of SeatsWinnerRunner-upMarginCandidateParty Votes %CandidateParty Votes % Votes %1Pathapatnam1V. V. GiriIndian National CongressINC50,08429.87Madusudana Jagadev Raja BahadurIndependentIND43,68926.066,3953.812Srikakulam1Boddapalli Rajagopala RaoIndependentIND51,99228.00Pasupati Lakshmi Narsinha RajuIndian National CongressINC42,59322.949,3995.063Parvathipuram1N. Rama SeshiahIndependentIND67,12433.87Senapathi Sitharama PatruduIndependentIND55,27927.9011,8455.974Vizianagaram1Kandala SubramaniamSocialist Party (India)SP1,12,09661.64Pasumarihi VeerabhadraswamiIndian National CongressINC27,54115.1484,55546.505Visakhapatnam2Lanka SundaramIndependentIND1,40,71841.45K. SubbarajuIndian National CongressINC1,24,10236.56N/A Not applicable6Kakinada1Chelikani Venkata Rama RaoCommunist Party of IndiaCPI85,90139.08Moslakanti Tirumal RaoIndian National CongressINC59,54027.0826,36112.007Rajahmundry2Kaneti Mohana RaoCommunist Party of IndiaCPI1,47,70616.41Nalla Reddi NaiduSocialist Party (India)SP1,46,33116.26N/A Not applicable8Eluru2K. Subha RaoCommunist Party of IndiaCPI1,87,82218.77B. S. MurthyKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP1,64,67116.46N/A Not applicable9Masulipatnam1Sanka ButehikottaiahCommunist Party of IndiaCPI1,24,10148.91K. Venkata RamayyaIndian National CongressINC77,25030.4546,85118.4610Gudivada1K. Gopala RaoCommunist Party of IndiaCPI1,42,53751.51Duggirala BalaramakrishniahIndian National CongressINC86,78531.3655,75220.1511Vijayawada1Harindranath ChattopadhyayaIndependentIND1,24,32046.97Rajyam SinhaIndian National CongressINC49,39618.6674,92428.3112Tenali1Kotha RaghuramaiahIndian National CongressINC1,03,12639.70Koratala SatyanarayanaCommunist Party of IndiaCPI1,01,73839.161,3880.5413Guntur1S. V. Laxmi NarasimhamIndependentIND79,35031.18N. G. RangaKrishikar Lok PartyKLP61,83324.3017,5176.8814Narasaraopet1Chapalamadugu Ramiah ChowdryIndependentIND78,33236.19Nandala Anjaneyulu ReddiIndian National CongressINC48,39622.3629,93613.8315Ongole2M. NanadassIndependentIND1,52,47221.06P. VenkataraghaviahIndependentIND1,26,29217.45N/A Not applicable16Nellore1Bezwada Ramachandra ReddyIndependentIND67,58232.65Vennalakurthi RaghavaiahIndian National CongressINC65,79531.781,7870.8717Nandyal1Seshagiri RaoIndependentIND67,90527.74Sura Rami ReddyIndian National CongressINC61,30125.046,6042.7018Kurnool1H. Sitharama ReddyIndian National CongressINC70,88736.50Y. Gadilingana GoudIndependentIND57,87429.8013,0136.7019Bellary1T. SubrahmanyamIndian National CongressINC1,24,97656.91Y. MahabaleshwarappaIndependentIND94,61543.0930,36113.8220Anantapur1Paidi LakshmayyaIndian National CongressINC85,18739.45Pamidi Bayapa ReddiIndependentIND76,18735.289,0004.1721Penukonda1K. S. RaghavachariKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP1,09,40850.27Kalluri Subba RaoIndian National CongressINC85,09839.1024,31011.1722Cuddapah1Eswara Reddi YeddulaCommunist Party of IndiaCPI85,12535.47P. Basi ReddyIndian National CongressINC66,65827.7818,4677.6923Chittoor2T. N. Vishwanatha ReddiIndian National CongressINC1,61,59020.49M. V. Gangadara SivaIndian National CongressINC1,51,08219.16N/A Not applicable24Tirupati1M. Ananthasayanam AyyangarIndian National CongressINC1,14,78251.35N. Venkataram NaiduKrishikar Lok PartyKLP1,08,74548.656,0372.7025Madras1T. T. KrishnamachariIndian National CongressINC79,43140.66BalasubramanyaJustice Party (India)JUSP63,25432.3816,1778.2826Tiruvallur2Margatham ChandrasekarIndian National CongressINC1,10,26517.89P. NatesanIndian National CongressINC90,34014.66N/A Not applicable27Chingleput1O. V. AlagesanIndian National CongressINC55,10236.53A. R. L. PathyKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP39,85726.4215,24510.1128Kancheepuram1A. KrishnaswamiCommonweal PartyCWL1,11,23355.63T. ChengalvarayanIndian National CongressINC88,72444.3722,50911.2629Vellore2MuthukrishnanIndian National CongressINC1,39,44820.89RamachanderCommonweal PartyCWL1,18,15417.70N/A Not applicable30Wandiwash1MunisamiCommonweal PartyCWL96,01154.09Ramachandra ReddyIndian National CongressINC68,49838.5927,51315.5031Krishnagiri1C. R. NarasimhanIndian National CongressINC61,67241.88C. Doraisami GounderIndependentIND55,47837.686,1944.2032Dharmapuri1N. SatyanathanIndependentIND66,21635.69K. SubramanianIndian National CongressINC61,57033.184,6462.5133Salem1S. V. RamaswamiIndian National CongressINC90,57044.44Konnu Rao Sahaib S. Durai Konnu PillaiIndependentIND79,70539.1110,8655.3334Erode2BalakrishnanIndian National CongressINC1,69,70821.68Periasami GounderIndian National CongressINC1,54,52719.74N/A Not applicable35Tiruchengode1S. K. Baby alias KandaswamiIndependentIND95,66454.78Dr. P. SubbarayanIndian National CongressINC78,97345.2216,6919.5636Tiruppur1T. S. Avinashilingam ChettiarIndian National CongressINC1,17,63056.45VenkatachalamIndependentIND90,74543.5526,88512.9037Pollachi1DamodaramIndian National CongressINC93,40544.40Krisnabai Nimbkar VasudevSocialist Party (India)SP46,74422.2246,66122.1838Coimbatore1T. A. Ramalinga ChettiarIndian National CongressINCWon Uncontested39Pudukkottai1K. M. VallatharsuKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP1,02,40453.42V. Ramaiah ServaiIndian National CongressINC89,29346.5813,1116.8440Perambalur1V. Boorarangaswami PandayachiTamil Nadu Toilers' PartyTNT84,33237.34R. Krishnaswami ReddiarIndian National CongressINC65,44328.9818,8898.3641Tiruchirappalli1E. MathuramIndependentIND94,18443.82N. HalasyamIndian National CongressINC77,00735.8317,1777.9942Tanjore1R. VenkataramanIndian National CongressINC92,48345.85R. Srinivasa SarmaIndependentIND87,47643.365,0072.4943Kumbakonam1C. Ramaswamy MudaliarIndian National CongressINC95,43341.59RamaiahIndependentIND62,12427.0733,30914.5244Mayuram2K. Ananda NambiarCommunist Party of IndiaCPI1,98,74322.49K. SanthanamIndian National CongressINC1,89,08921.40N/A Not applicable45Cuddalore2Govindaswamy KachirayarTamil Nadu Toilers' PartyTNT1,86,89425.26KanakasabaiIndian National CongressINC1,64,98522.30N/A Not applicable46Tindivanam2A. JayaramanTamil Nadu Toilers' PartyTNT2,20,67027.95V. MuniswamiTamil Nadu Toilers' PartyTNT2,14,77227.20N/A Not applicable47Tirunelveli1Thanu PillaiIndian National CongressINC86,07744.32AthimoolamIndependentIND71,87137.0114,2067.3148Srivaikuntam1A. V. ThomasIndian National CongressINC1,07,33862.31M. M. SubramanianSocialist Party (India)SP64,91637.6942,42224.6249Sankaranainarkoil1M. SankarapandianIndian National CongressINC96,57739.11Ahmad IbrahimIndependentIND92,45937.444,1181.6750Aruppukottai1U. Muthuramalinga ThevarMarxist Forward BlocMFB90,51245.09M. Gulam MohideenIndian National CongressINC70,72435.2319,7889.8651Ramanathapuram1V. Vr. N. Ar. Nagappa ChettiarIndian National CongressINC1,09,11056.36T. SundaramKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP44,11822.7964,99233.5752Srivilliputtur1K. Kamaraj NadarIndian National CongressINC1,04,82946.77G. D. NaiduIndependentIND77,83534.7326,99412.0453Madurai2S. BalasubramaniamIndian National CongressINC1,95,76226.68P. M. KakkanIndian National CongressINC1,89,94525.89N/A Not applicable54Periyakulam1A. Sakthivadivel GounderIndian National CongressINC1,07,87544.43C. Raghupathi ThevarMarxist Forward BlocMFB74,99130.8932,88413.5455Dindigul1Ammu SwaminathanIndian National CongressINC77,28536.89KrishnaswamiCommunist Party of IndiaCPI64,95331.0112,3325.8856South Kanara (North)1U. Srinivas MallyaIndian National CongressINC98,12244.45K. B. Jinaraja HegdeKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP86,26839.0811,8545.3757South Kanara South1B. Shiva RaoIndian National CongressINC96,61946.88K. R. KaranthKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP87,77842.598,8414.2958Cannanore1A. K. GopalanCommunist Party of IndiaCPI1,66,29965.87C. K. K. Govindan NayarIndian National CongressINC79,27031.4087,02934.4759Tellicherry1N. DamodaranKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP98,48342.61P. KunhiramanIndian National CongressINC62,18226.9036,30115.7160Kozhikode1Achuthan Damodaran MenonKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP1,04,46644.26Ummar Koya, ParappilIndian National CongressINC77,01232.6327,45411.6361Malappuram1B. PockerIndian Union Muslim LeagueML79,47038.98T. V. Chathukutty NairIndian National CongressINC62,49430.6516,9768.3362Ponnani2Kelappan KoyhapaliKisan Mazdoor Praja PartyKMPP1,46,36618.90Karunakara MenonIndian National CongressINC1,36,60317.64N/A Not applicable See also Elections in Tamil Nadu Bibliography Volume I, 1951 Indian general election, 1st Lok Sabha External links Website of Election Commission of India CNN-IBN Lok Sabha Election History Notes note expanded Madras Category:Indian general elections in Tamil Nadu