Lok Sabha · 10 seats by-polled across 8 states

By-elections 1956

By-elections fill seats vacated mid-term. They are separate contests, not a general election: no government was formed and no majority was at stake, so these results are shown as a table rather than a map. All Lok Sabha elections →
Seats won
INC: 9 seats (90.0%)IND: 1 seats (10.0%)10seats
  • INC990.0%
  • IND110.0%

% = share of seats won, not of votes.

Assam · Bombay · Madras · Patiala and East Punjab States Union · Rajasthan · Uttar Pradesh · Vindhya Pradesh · West Bengal

Seats by-polled — 1956

10 seats
ConstituencyWinnerPartyMargin
Gauhati
PC 5
D.N. SARMA
INC
15,945
20.8%
Ahmedabad
PC 6
M.S. GANESH
INC
Unopposed
no contest
Tiruvallur
PC 26
R.G. NAIDU
INC
88,291
78.5%
Dharamapuri
PC 32
T.A.M.S. CHETTIAR
INC
28,077
45.6%
Mohindergarh
PC 1
RAM KRISHAN
INC
27,782
21.8%
Jaipur
PC 11
BANSI LAL
INC
5,056
11.9%
Almora District (North
PC 4
BADRI DATT
INC
10,706
25.8%
Shahdol Sidhi
PC 1
A.C. JOSHI
INC
15,357
17.6%
Basirhat
PC 20
P.N. KAYAL
INC
Unopposed
no contest
Calcutta North West
PC 26
M.K. MAITRA
IND
33,073
24.2%
Source: Lok Dhaba, Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University