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Seats by party
INC: 270 seats (85.2%)IND: 19 seats (6.0%)PWP: 14 seats (4.4%)SP: 9 seats (2.8%)KKP: 2 seats (0.6%)CPI: 1 seats (0.3%)KLP: 1 seats (0.3%)SCF: 1 seats (0.3%)159 for a majority317159 TO GOVERN
The story

Bombay's first election

What happened

The Indian National Congress won a landslide victory in Bombay's first Vidhan Sabha election.

It won 270 of the 317 seats on offer — a clear supermajority.

Its nearest rival, the Independent, trailed far behind with 19 seats.

That gave Congress 111 more seats than a simple majority required.

What changed

This was the first Vidhan Sabha election held in Bombay State.

Some of that year's constituencies used a multi-member design, sending more than one representative from a single contest.

47 of the 268 constituencies elected two members each.

And 1 constituency went further still, electing three members instead of two — the state's only triple-member seat that year.

Altogether, the assembly grew to 317 members.

Notable numbers

A few numbers from the results stand out on their own.

The closest race was in Patan, Bombay, decided by just 99 votes.

The widest win was in Sankheda, Bombay, where the winner finished 62.5% ahead of the runner-up.

Nasik Igatpuri, Bombay had the largest electorate that year, with 1,62,645 registered voters, and also saw the most crowded contest of the election — 17 candidates all told.

Across the state, about 52.6% of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot.

The backdrop

Bombay's Vidhan Sabha opened with this election, the state's first popularly elected assembly.

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