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1952 Saurashtra Legislative Assembly election

state Legislative Assembly Elections

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ18391946 ↗
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Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Saurashtra were held on March 26, 1952. 222 candidates contested for the 55 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 5 two-member constituencies and 50 single-member constituencies.

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State reorganization and merger

On 1 November 1956, Saurashtra was merged into Bombay under States Reorganisation Act, 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “1952 Saurashtra Legislative Assembly election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.