1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election

1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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All 309 seats in the East Bengal Legislative Assembly
156 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader A. K. Fazlul Huq Rasaraj Mandal
Party United Front SCF
Seats won 223 27
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Nurul Amin
Party PNC Muslim League
Seats won 24 9
Chief Minister before election

Governor Rule
Muslim League

Elected Chief Minister

A. K. Fazlul Huq
United Front

Legislative elections were held in East Bengal between 8 and 12 March 1954, the first since Pakistan became an independent country in 1947.[1] The opposition United Front led by the Awami League and Krishak Sramik Party won a landslide victory with 223 of the 309 seats.[2] The Muslim League Chief Minister of East Pakistan Nurul Amin was defeated in his own constituency by Khaleque Nawaz Khan by over 7,000 votes, with all the Muslim League ministers losing their seats.[3]

  1. ^ M Bhaskaran Nair (1990) Politics in Bangladesh: A Study of Awami League, 1949-58 Archived 2017-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Book Centre, p137
  2. ^ Nair, p165
  3. ^ Nair, p167