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430 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 216 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 38.01% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on 26 March 1952. 2,604 candidates contested for the 347 constituencies in the Assembly.[1] The Indian National Congress won the majority of seats and its leader Govind Ballabh Pant was re-elected as the Chief Minister.[2]
After the passing of The Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1951, the constituencies were set to the ones used in this election.[3] There were 83 two-member constituencies and 264 single-member constituencies.[1]
UPECI1951
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).