| Election Name: | 1952 Pa and East Punjab States Union Legislative Assembly election |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | legislative |
| Vote Type: | Popular |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Election Date: | 27 March 1952 |
| Next Election: | 1954 Balks and East Punjab States Union Legislative Assembly erection |
| Next Year: | 1954 |
| Seats For Election: | All 60 seats in the Patiala and East Punjab States Union Legislative Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 31 |
| Turnout: | 58.93% |
| Party1: | Indian National Congress |
| Image1: | Hand_INC.svg |
| Seats1: | 26 |
| Popular Vote1: | 28.66 |
| Party2: | Akali Dal |
| Seats2: | 19 |
| Popular Vote2: | 23.44% |
| CM | |
| Before Party: | Indian National Congress |
| Before Election: | Raghbir Singh |
| After Election: | Gian Singh Rarewala |
Elections to the Patiala and East Punjab States Union Legislative Assembly were held on 27 March 1952. 374 candidates competed for the 50 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 10 two-member constituencies and 40 single-member constituencies.
!colspan=10||- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;"! class="unsortable" |! Political party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote %|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress| | 51 || 26 || 43.33 || 3,88,185 || 28.66|- style="background: #90EE90;"| | | 41 || 19 || 31.67 || 3,17,502 || 23.44|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh|| 23 || 2 || 3.33 || 43,809 || 3.23|- style="background: #90EE90;"| | style="text-align:left;" |Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party|| 15 || 1 || 1.67 || 20,179 || 1.49|- style="background: #90EE90;"| | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India| | 14 || 2 || 3.33 || 64,652 || 4.77|- style="background: #90EE90;"||| 5 || 1 || 1.67 || 21,539 || 1.59|-|| style="text-align:left;" |Scheduled Caste Federation| | 7 || 1 || 1.67 || 47,216 || 3.49|- style="background: #90EE90;"| || 188 || 8 || 13.33 || 3,96,956 || 29.31|- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan = 3| Total seats! 60 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 22,98,385 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 13,54,476 (58.93%)|}
| Constituency | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hazura Singh | |||
| 2 | Kot Kapura Jaitu | Ranjit Singh | ||
| Manjitinder Singh | ||||
| 3 | Bhatinda Saddar | Pritam Singh | ||
| 4 | Nahianwala | Harbans Lal | ||
| 5 | Rama | Jang Singh | ||
| 6 | Bhupinder Singh | |||
| 7 | Bali Singh | |||
| Harchand Singh | ||||
| 8 | Inder Singh | |||
| 9 | Bhiki | Bakhshish Singh | ||
| 10 | Budhlada Bareta | Des Raj | ||
| 11 | Dhanna Singh | |||
| Arjan Singh | ||||
| 12 | Sehna Phul | Gurdial Singh | ||
| 13 | Sampuran Singh | |||
| 14 | Raghbir Parkash | |||
| 15 | Sherpur | Hira Singh | ||
| 16 | Tirath Singh | |||
| 17 | Iftikharali Khan | |||
| 18 | Ahmadgarh | Kartar Singh | ||
| 19 | Gajjan Singh | |||
| 20 | Bhawanigarh | Baldev Singh | ||
| 21 | Narwana Klait | Bhale Ram | ||
| Kali Ram | ||||
| 22 | Bachan Singh | |||
| 23 | Pritam Singh | |||
| Brish Bhan | ||||
| 24 | Uchana | Inder Singh | ||
| 25 | Dal Singh | |||
| 26 | Inder Singh | |||
| 27 | Ram Singh | |||
| 28 | Ranjit Singh | |||
| Lekh Ram | ||||
| 29 | Banur | Harchand Singh | ||
| Bishan Nath | ||||
| 30 | Prem Singh | |||
| 31 | Patiala City | Jaswant Singh | ||
| 32 | Kirpal Singh | |||
| 33 | Patiala Saddar | Raghbir Singh | ||
| 34 | Bhadson | Dara Singh | ||
| 35 | Gurbhajnik Singh | |||
| 36 | Fateh Singh | |||
| 37 | Bassi | Gurdial Singh | ||
| 38 | Sirhind | Balwant Singh | ||
| 39 | Amloh Payal | Mihan Singh | ||
| Gian Singh | ||||
| 40 | Sadhu Ram | |||
| Hans Raj | ||||
| 41 | Sultanpur | Atma Singh | ||
| 42 | Thakar Singh | |||
| 43 | Dhilwan | Basawa Singh | ||
| 44 | Harnam | |||
| Nihal Singh | ||||
| 45 | Badra Satnali | Attar Singh | ||
| 46 | Onkar Singh | |||
| 47 | Mohindergarh | Kahan Singh | ||
| 48 | Manohar Sham | |||
| 49 | Ramsaran Chand | |||
| 50 | Devkinandan | |||
After the elections, Congress party emerged as the single largest party, but in the absence of majority, Gian Singh Rarewala formed the government with the support of Akali Dal, Communist Party of India, Lal Communist Party Hind Union, Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party and Independents on 22 April 1952. The coalition was named as United Democratic Front. Thus, he became the first non-Congress Chief Minister of any state in independent India.[1]