1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election information
First provincial legislative assembly election of East Bengal (Pakistan)
1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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All 309 seats in the East Bengal Legislative Assembly 156 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
A. K. Fazlul Huq
Rasaraj Mandal
Party
United Front
SCF
Seats won
223
27
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
Nurul Amin
Party
PNC
Muslim League
Seats won
24
9
Chief Minister before election
Governor Rule
Muslim League
Elected Chief Minister
A. K. Fazlul Huq
United Front
Legislative elections were held in East Bengal between 8 and 12 March 1954, the first since Pakistan became an independent country in 1947.[1] The opposition United Front led by the Awami League and Krishak Sramik Party won a landslide victory with 223 of the 309 seats.[2] The Muslim League Chief Minister of East Pakistan Nurul Amin was defeated in his own constituency by Khaleque Nawaz Khan by over 7,000 votes, with all the Muslim League ministers losing their seats.[3]
^M Bhaskaran Nair (1990) Politics in Bangladesh: A Study of Awami League, 1949-58 Archived 2017-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Book Centre, p137
^Nair, p165
^Nair, p167
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