1951 Indian general election in Madras

The 1951 Indian general election was the first democratic national election held in India after Independence, and the polls in Madras state were held for 62 constituencies with 75 seats. This State had the second largest number of seats, after Uttar Pradesh. The result was a victory for Indian National Congress winning 35 out of the 75 seats. While the remaining seats were won by left and independent parties, opposed to Congress. However, Congress stalwarts such as N. G. Ranga, Durgabai Deshmukh, and Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao lost in that election from the Telugu-speaking areas then referred as Andhra. Congress lost in 22 out of the 28 seats (from 23 constituencies) in majority Telugu-speaking areas (i.e. Andhra region). Reason for the poor performance in Andhra region was attributed to the party's delay in the formation of a separate State for Telugu people. It eventually led to the formation of the Andhra state in 1953 and later the linguistic reorganization of Indian states in 1956 where Kannada and Malayalam majority speaking areas were merged with Mysore and Kerala States respectively.

Indian general election in Madras, 1951

November 1951

75 (of 489) seats to the Lok Sabha
  First party Second party
 
Leader Jawaharlal Nehru Shripat Amrit Dange
Party INC CPI
Leader's seat Did not contest Did not contest
Seats won 35 8
Popular vote 7,253,452 1,783,407
Percentage 36.39% 8.95%

Voting and results

Results by Alliance

INC SEATS CPI SEATS OTHERS SEATS
INC 35 CPI 8 IND 15
KMPP 5
Others 12
TOTAL (1951) 29 TOTAL (1951) 8 TOTAL (1951) 75
  • Independent parties are local state parties, that are unrecognised nationally


Results by Parties

PartySeats
Indian National Congress35
Communist Party of India8
Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party6
Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party4
Socialist Party3
Commonweal Party3
Indian Union Muslim League1
All India Forward Bloc1
Independents15
Total76
Source: ECI

    Results by Tamil-majority constituencies

    These were 31 constituencies with 38 seats, namely Madras, Thiruvallur (2 seats), Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Vellore (2 seats), Vandavasi, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Salem, Erode (2 seats), Tiruchengode, Tiruppur, Pollachi, Coimbatore, Pudukkottai, Perambalur, Tiruchirappalli, Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, Mayuram (2 seats), Cuddalore (2 seats), Tindivanam (2 seats), Tirunelveli, Srivaikuntam, Sankaranainarkoil, Aruppukottai, Ramanathapuram, Srivilliputhur, Madurai (2 seats), Periyakulam and Dindigul. Madras constituency had significant Telugu population.

    PartySeats
    Indian National Congress25
    Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party4
    Commonweal Party3
    Communist Party of India1
    Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party1
    All India Forward Bloc1
    Independents3
    Total38

      Results by Telugu-majority constituencies

      These were 23 constituencies with 28 seats, namely Pathapatnam, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam (2 seats), Kakinada, Rajahmundry (2 seats), Eluru (2 seats), Masulipatnam, Gudivada, Vijayawada, Tenali, Guntur, Narasaraopet, Ongole (2 seats), Nellore, Nandyal, Kurnool, Anantapur, Cuddapah, Chittoor (2 seats) and Tirupati.

      Congress stalwarts such as N. G. Ranga, Durgabai Deshmukh, and Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao lost in that election. Reason for the poor performance of Congress in Telugu-speaking areas both in general then referred as Andhra was attributed to their delay in the formation of a separate state for Telugu people. It eventually led to the formation of the Andhra state in 1953 and later the linguistic reorganization of Indian States in 1956.

      PartySeats
      Indian National Congress6
      Communist Party of India6
      Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party2
      Socialist Party2
      Independents12
      Total28

        Results by Kannada-majority constituencies

        These were 3 constituencies with 3 seats, namely Bellary, South Kanara (North) and South Kanara South. However, Bellary constituency had significant Telugu minority population.

        PartySeats
        Indian National Congress3
        Total3

          Results by Malayalam-majority constituencies

          These were 5 constituencies with 6 seats, namely Cannanore, Tellicherry, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Ponnani (2 seats).

          PartySeats
          Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party3
          Indian National Congress1
          Communist Party of India1
          Indian Union Muslim League1
          Total6

            List of Elected MPs

            Telugu speaking areas had 28 seats from 23 constituencies (constituency serial numbers 1 to 24 except 19), Tamil speaking areas had 38 seats from 31 constituencies (constituency serial numbers 25 to 55), Kannada speaking areas had 3 seats from 3 (constituency serial numbers 19, 56 and 57) and Malayalam speaking areas had 6 seats from 5 constituencies (constituency numbers 58 to 62). Kannada-majority Bellary and Tamil-majority Madras has significant Telugu populations.

            S.No Constituency Seats Winner Party Runner-upa Partya
            1 Pathapatnam 1 V. V. Giri INC Madhusudana Jagadeva Raja Bahadur IND
            2 Srikakulam 1 Boddepalli Rajagopala Rao IND Pasupathi Lakshmi Narasinha Raju INC
            3 Parvathipuram 1 N Rama Seshiah IND Senapathi Sitharama Patrudu INC
            4 Vizianagaram 1 Kandala Subramaniam SP Pasumarthi Veerabhadhraswami INC
            5 Visakhapatnam 2 Lanka Sundaram
            Gam Malludora
            IND
            IND
            K.Subbaraju INC
            6 Kakinada 1 Chelikani Venkat Rama Rao CPI Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao INC
            7 Rajahmundry 2 Kaneti Mohan Rao
            Nalla Reddi Naidu
            CPI
            SP
            Gammididala Durgabhai Deshmukh
            Rama Danayya
            INC
            INC
            8 Eluru 2 Kondru Subba Rao
            B. S. Murty
            CPI
            KMPP
            K. Ramayya
            C. Ammanaraja
            INC
            INC
            9 Masulipatnam 1 Sanka Butehikottaiah CPI K. Ramayya INC
            10 Gudivada 1 K. Gopala Rao CPI Duggirala Balarama Krishnaiah INC
            11 Vijayawada 1 Harindranath Chattopadhyay IND Rajyam Sinha INC
            12 Tenali 1 Kotha Raghuramaiah INC Koratala Satyanarayana CPI
            13 Guntur 1 S V Laxmi Narsimhan IND N. G. Ranga INC
            14 Narasaraopet 1 Chapalamadugu Ramaiah Cowdary IND Nandala Anjaneyulu Reddi INC
            15 Ongole 2 M Nanadass
            P. Venkataraghaviah
            IND
            IND
            K. Venkataranga Chetti
            E. Sundara Rama Reddi
            KMPP
            INC
            16 Nellore 1 Bezwada Ramchandra Reddy IND Vennelakurthi Raghavaiah INC
            17 Nandyal 1 Seshgiri Rao IND Sura Rami Reddy INC
            18 Kurnool 1 Y. Gadi Lingana Goud[1] IND H Sitaram Reddy[note 1] INC
            19 Bellary 1 Tekur Subrahmanayam INC Y. Mahabaleswarappa INC
            20 Anantapur 1 Paidi Lakshmayya INC Pamidi Bayapa Reddi IND
            21 Penukonda 1 K S Raghavachari KMPP Kalluri Subba Rao INC
            22 Cuddapah 1 Y. Eswara Reddy CPI P. Basi Reddi INC
            23 Chittoor 2 T N Vishwanatha Reddi
            M V Gangadhara Siva
            INC
            INC
            K. Nanjappa
            C.L.Narasimha Reddi
            KLP
            KLP
            24 Tirupati 1 M Ananthasayanam Ayyanagar INC N. Venkatram Naidu KLP
            25 Madras 1 T. T. Krishnamachari INC Balasubramanya MDR JUSP
            26 Thiruvallur 2 Maragatham Chandrasekhar
            P. Natesan
            INC
            Guruswami
            Sarojini Rajah
            IND
            KMPP
            27 Chengalpattu 1 O. V. Alagesan INC A. R. L. Pathy KMPP
            28 Kancheepuram 1 A. Krishnaswami CWL T. Chengalvarayan INC
            29 Vellore 2 M. Muthukrishnan
            Ramachandar
            INC
            CWL
            N. S. Varadachari
            Muhammad Anwar
            INC
            IND
            30 Vandavasi 1 Munusami CWL Ramachandra Reddy INC
            31 Krishnagiri 1 C. R. Narasimhan INC C. Doraisami Gounder IND
            32 Dharmapuri 1 N. Satyanathan IND K. Subramanian INC
            33 Salem 1 S. V. Ramaswami INC S. Duraikannu Pillai IND
            34 Erode 2 Balakrishnan
            Periasami Gounder
            INC
            INC
            Kesavlal Jalidas Jait
            Pasupathi
            IND
            SP
            35 Tiruchengode 1 S. K. Baby IND P. Subbarayan INC
            36 Tiruppur 1 T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar INC Venkatachalam IND
            37 Pollachi 1 Damodaran INC Krishnabai Nimbkar Vasudev SP
            38 Coimbatore 1 T. A. Ramalingam Chettiar INC
            39 Pudukkottai 1 K. M. Vallatharasu KMPP V. Ramaiah Servai INC
            40 Perambalur 1 V. Boorarangaswami Padayachi TNT R. Krishnaswami Reddiar INC
            41 Tiruchirappalli 1 E. Mathuram IND N. Halasyam INC
            42 Thanjavur 1 R. Venkataraman INC R. Srinivasa Sharma IND
            43 Kumbakonam 1 C. Ramaswamy Mudaliar INC Ramaiah IND
            44 Mayuram 2 K. Ananda Nambiar
            K. Santhanam
            CPI
            INC
            V. Veeraswami
            R.Subramaniam
            INC
            CPI
            45 Cuddalore 2 Govindasamy Kachirayar
            Kanakasabai
            TNT
            INC
            L. Elayaperumal
            N. Rajangan
            INC
            TNT
            46 Tindivanam 2 A. Jayaraman
            V. Munuswamy
            TNT
            TNT
            V. I. Munuswamy Pillai
            Ramnath Goenka
            INC
            INC
            47 Tirunelveli 1 P. T. Thanu Pillai INC Adhimoolam Nadar IND
            48 Srivaikuntam 1 A. V. Thomas INC M. M. Subramanian SP
            49 Sankaranainarkoil 1 M. Sankarapandian INC Ahmad Ibrahim IND
            50 Aruppukottai 1 U. Muthuramalinga Thevar FBL (MG) M. Gulam Mohideen INC
            51 Ramanathapuram 1 V. VR. N. AR. Nagappa Chettiar INC T. Sundaram KMPP
            52 Srivilliputhur 1 K. Kamaraj Nadar INC G. D. Naidu IND
            53 Madurai 2 S. Balasubramaniam Kodimangalam
            P. M. Kakkan
            INC
            INC
            Thangamani Nadar
            S. A. Rahim
            CPI
            SP
            54 Periyakulam 1 A. Sakthivadivel Gounder INC C. Raghupathi Thevar FBL (MG)
            55 Dindigul 1 Ammu Swaminathan INC Krishnaswami CPI
            56 South Kanara (North) 1 U. Srinivas Mallya INC Jinaraja Hegde KMPP
            57 South Kanara South 1 B. Shiva Rao INC K.R. Karanth KMPP
            58 Cannanore 1 A. K. Gopalan CPI C.K.K. Govindan Nayar INC
            59 Tellicherry 1 N. Damodaran KMPP P. Kunhiraman INC
            60 Kozhikode 1 K. A. Damodara Menon KMPP Ummar Koya Parappil INC
            61 Malappuram 1 B. Pocker IUML T. V. Chattukutty Nair INC
            62 Ponnani 2 Kellapan Koyhapali
            Vella Eacharan Iyyani
            KMPP
            INC
            Karunakara Menon
            Massan Gani
            INC
            IND

            See also

            Bibliography

            Notes

            1. The ECI report seems to have erroneusly mentions that Sitaram Reddy got highest votes in Kurnool whereas the Parliamentary archives mention that it was Lingana Goud who represented Kurnool during first Lok Sabha (1952-57).
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