1957 Indian general election in Assam
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12 (of 494) seats in the Lok Sabha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 44,95,359 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 20,74,158 (46.14%)  1.82% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1957 Indian general election in Assam were held to elect the 12 members from 10 constituencies in the state. The result was a victory for Indian National Congress winning 9 out of the 12 seats. And 2 seats were won by the Praja Socialist Party. The remaining seat was won by an Independent politician.
Voting and results
[edit]| Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
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| Indian National Congress | 1,184,708 | 51.68 |  5.94% | 9 | 2 | |
| Praja Socialist Party | 457,643 | 19.96 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Communist Party of India | 235,044 | 10.25 | 0 | – | ||
| Independents | 415,217 | 18.11 | 4.37% | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 2,292,612 | 100.00 | – | 12 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,074,158 | – | ||||
List of Elected MPs
[edit]| Constituency | NoS | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
| 1 | Cachar | 2 | Dwarika Nath Tewari (SC) | INC | 2,19,704 | 55.85 | Dev Dhirendra Mohan | IND | 1,73,675 | 44.15 | N/A | |||
| Nibaran Chandra Laskar | INC | Returned Uncontested[a] | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Autonomous Districts (ST) | 1 | Hoover Hynniewta | IND | 58,428 | 49.86 | G. Gilbert Swell | INC | 40,580 | 34.63 | 17,848 | 15.23 | ||
| 3 | Dhubri | 1 | Amjad Ali | PSP | 1,01,303 | 57.98 | Nazmul Haque | INC | 73,410 | 42.02 | 27,893 | 15.97 | ||
| 4 | Goalpara | 2 | Dharanidhar Basumauari (ST) | INC | 1,83,774 | 26.40 | Bishnu Prasad Rabha (ST)[b] | CPI | 98,180 | 14.11 | N/A | |||
| Rani Manjula Debi | INC | 1,83,974 | 26.43 | Bhabananda Datta[c] | CPI | 1,03,151 | 14.82 | N/A | ||||||
| 5 | Gauhati | 1 | Hem Barua | PSP | 1,43,497 | 59.76 | Devendra Nath Sarma | INC | 96,624 | 40.24 | 46,873 | 19.52 | ||
| 6 | Darrang | 1 | Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati | INC | Returned Uncontested | |||||||||
| 7 | Nowgong | 1 | Liladhar Kataki | INC | 1,19,002 | 61.74 | Sukadev Goswami | IND | 53,947 | 27.99 | 65,055 | 33.75 | ||
| 8 | Jorhat | 1 | Mofida Ahmed | INC | 80,028 | 45.36 | Syed Abdul Malik | CPI | 33,713 | 19.11 | 46,315 | 26.25 | ||
| 9 | Sibsagar | 1 | Profulla Chandra Borua | INC | 92,374 | 56.12 | Kedarnath Goswami | IND | 32,633 | 19.83 | 59,741 | 36.29 | ||
| 10 | Dibrugarh | 1 | Jogendra Nath Hazarika | INC | 95,238 | 69.32 | Nibaron Chandra Bora | PSP | 25,712 | 18.71 | 69,526 | 50.60 | ||
