| Election Name: | 1952 Delhi Legislative Assembly election |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Election Date: | 27 March 1952 |
| Next Election: | 1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
| Seats For Election: | All 48 seats to the Delhi Legislative Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 25 |
| Image1: | File:Chaudhary Brahm Parkash.jpg |
| Leader1: | Chaudhary Brahm Prakash |
| Party1: | Indian National Congress |
| Leaders Seat1: | Nangloi Jat |
| Seats Before1: | N/A |
| Seats1: | 39 |
| Seat Change1: | N/A |
| Popular Vote1: | 2,71,812 |
| Percentage1: | 52.09% |
| Party2: | Bharatiya Jana Sangh |
| Leaders Seat2: | - |
| Seats Before2: | N/A |
| Seats2: | 5 |
| Seat Change2: | N/A |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,14,207 |
| Percentage2: | 21.89% |
| Chief Minister | |
| Posttitle: | Chief Minister |
| After Election: | Chaudhary Brahm Prakash |
| After Party: | Indian National Congress |
The first Delhi Legislative Assembly election to the Delhi Legislative Assembly was held on 27 March 1952.[1] Forty-eight seats were up for election.[1] Six of the constituencies elected two assembly members, the remaining 36 constituencies elected a single member.
Congress emerged as the single largest party in the first legislative elections held in Delhi. Chaudhary Brahm Prakash of Indian National Congress was elected Chief Minister.!colspan=10||- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;"! colspan=2|Party !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote %|- style="background: #90EE90;"| | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress| 47 || 39 || 81.25 || 271,812 || 52.09|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh| 31 || 5 || 10.42 || 114,207 || 21.89|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Scheduled Castes Federation| 5 || 0 || 0 || 15,592 || 2.99|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party| 7 || 0 || 0 || 13,646 || 2.62|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Socialist Party| 6 || 2 || 4.17 || 12,396 || 2.38|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha| 5 || 1 || 2.08 || 6,891 || 1.32|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India| 1 || 0 || 0 || 2,591 || 0.50|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad| 4 || 0 || 0 || 849 || 0.16|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Forward Bloc (Marxist Group)| 1 || 0 || 0 || 503 || 0.10|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Revolutionary Socialist Party| 1 || 0 || 0 || 307 || 0.06|-| | 78 || 1 || 2.08 || 82,972 || 15.90|- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan = 2| Total Seats! 48 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 744,668 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 521,766 (58.52%)|}
| S.No. | Constituency | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kotla Feroze Shah | Shanta Vasisht | ||
| 2 | Parliament Street | Kaushaleshwar Prasad Shankara | ||
| 3 | Safdar Jang | Daljit Singh | ||
| 4 | Lodhi Road | Shiva Nandan Rishi | ||
| 5 | Puran Qilla Viney Nagar | Pushpa Devi | ||
| 6 | Raghvendra Singh | |||
| 7 | Reading Road | Amin Chand | ||
| 8 | Prafulla Ranjan Chakravarty | |||
| 9 | Chittar Gupta | Kartar Singh | ||
| 10 | Mantola | Mushtaq Rai | ||
| 11 | Ram Nagar | Shankar Lal | ||
| 12 | Jhanday Walan | Ghardhari Lal Salwan | ||
| 13 | Kashmere Gate | Bhagwan Dass | ||
| 14 | Yudhvir Singh | |||
| 15 | Phatak Habash Khan | Harkishan Lal | ||
| 16 | Maliwara | Anand Raj | ||
| 17 | Sultan Yar Khan | |||
| 18 | Chawri Bazar | Nuruddin Ahmad | ||
| 19 | Ajmeri Gate | Shafiq Ur Rehman Kidwai | ||
| 20 | Sita Ram Bazar Turkman Gate | Shiv Charan Dass | ||
| 21 | Sudershan Singh | |||
| 22 | Kucha Chelan | Mushtaq Ahmad | ||
| 23 | Darya Ganj | |||
| 24 | Chandrawal | Hukam Singh | ||
| 25 | Roshanara | Jagan Nath | ||
| 26 | Arya Pura | Mangal Dass | ||
| 27 | Tokriwalan | Gopinath | ||
| 28 | Deputy Ganj | Sham Charan | ||
| 29 | Pahari Dhiraj Basti Jullahan | Hem Chand Jain | ||
| 30 | Dhanpat Rai | |||
| 31 | Manak Pura | B.D. Joshi | ||
| 32 | Tibbia College | Ram Singh | ||
| 33 | Naiwala | Dilawar Singh | ||
| 34 | Rehgar Pura Dev Nagar | Daya Ram | ||
| 35 | ||||
| 36 | Kishan Ganj Anad Parbat | Jag Pravesh Chandra | ||
| 37 | Civil Lines | Krishna | ||
| 38 | Kingsway Camp | Jang bahadur Singh | ||
| 39 | Wazirabad | Fateh Singh | ||
| 40 | Chinta Mani | |||
| 41 | Mange Ram | |||
| 42 | Prabhu Dayal | |||
| 43 | ||||
| 44 | Khanjhawla | Bhup Singh | ||
| 45 | Isa Pur | Subedat Hati Singh | ||
| 46 | Ajit Singh | |||
| 47 | Mitter Sen | |||
| 48 | Sukh Dev | |||
On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956, Delhi was made a Union Territory under the direct administration of the President of India and the Delhi Legislative Assembly was abolished simultaneously.[2] Next legislative assembly elections in Delhi were held in 1993, when Union Territory of Delhi was formally declared as National Capital Territory of Delhi by the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the Indian constitution.[3]