1957 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Second Legislative Aseembly, Uttar Pradesh

← 1951 February 25, 1957 (1957-02-25) 1962 →
430 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 216 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	44.77% 6.76%
Majority party Minority party   Leader Sampurnanand Triloki Singh Party INC PSP Leader's seat Varanasi City South Lucknow City East Last election 388 seats, 47.93% 21 seats, 17.73% Seats won 286 44 Seat change 102 23 Popular vote 9,298,382 3,170,865 Percentage 42.42% 14.47% Swing 5.51% 3.26%
CM before election Sampurnanand INC Elected CM Sampurnanand INC

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.^[1]

Sampurnanand 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.^[2][3]

Pandit Dev Narayan ‘Bhartiya’, the First Revolutionist of the North India, from the Constituency, Jamaur Shahjahanpur(U.P.) was the Member of the Second Legislative Assembly (U.P.) from 1957 to 1962 and raised the most questions in the Assembly's Proceedings. Another fact about him is that he did not let any Congress Candidate win nearby his constituency, thus four seats (Jamaur, Tilhar, Khera Bajehra, Jalalabad) were secured by Ram Manohar Lohia's Socialist Party, under the guidance of Pandit Dev Narayan 'Bhartiya'. Following were also the important members of the Second Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh.^[4][5][6]

Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	9,298,382	42.42	5.51%	286	102
	Praja Socialist Party	3,170,865	14.47	3.26%	44	23
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	2,157,881	9.84	3.39%	17	15
	Communist Party of India	840,348	3.83	3.49%	9	8
	Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad	165,671	0.76	0.98%	0	1
	Independents	6,285,457	28.68	9.02%	74	59
Total		21,918,604	100.00	–	430
Source: [1]

• 1957 elections in India