1957 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election


The second Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh in 1957. The Indian National Congress won a comfortable margin with 286 of the 430 Vidhan Sabha seats, although it was less of a majority than in the previous election in 1951.
The Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on 25 February 1957. 1711 candidates contested for the 430 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 89 two-member constituencies and 252 single-member constituencies.

Important members

was the second Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He succeeded Govind Ballabh Pant of his party and served as a Chief Minister from 1954 to 1960. In 1960, due to a political crisis initiated by Kamlapati Tripathi and Chandra Bhanu Gupta, Sampurnanand was asked to quit the post of Chief Minister and was sent to Rajasthan as the Governor. Following were the important members of the Second Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh.
#FromToPositionNameParty
0119571960Chief MinisterSampurnanandIndian National Congress
0219601962Chief MinisterChandra Bhanu GuptaIndian National Congress
0319571962Speaker of the AssemblyAtmaram Govind KherIndian National Congress
0419571962Deputy SpeakerRamnarayan TripathiIndian National Congress
0519571962Leader of the OppositionTriloki SinghPraja Socialist Party
0619531959Finance ministerHafiz Mohamad IbrahimIndian National Congress
0719591961Finance ministerSyed Ali ZaheerIndian National Congress
0819611963Finance ministerHar Govind SinghIndian National Congress
0919571960Minister of Parliamentary AffairsS. Ali ZaheerIndian National Congress
1019611962Minister of Parliamentary AffairsMangala PrasadIndian National Congress
1119571962Principal SecretaryD. N. Mithal-

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