1937 Sind Provincial Assembly election

1937 Sind provincial elections
1937
All 60 seats in the Sind Legislative Assembly
31 seats needed for a majority
Registered639,043
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Allah Bux Soomro Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah Mukhi Gobindram Pritamdas
Party SUP SML ABHM
Leader's seat Sukkur North West Muslim Landholders Hyderabad City Hindu
Seats won 17 16 12
  Fourth party
 
Leader Ghanshyam Jethanand Shivadasani
Party INC
Leader's seat Hyderabad City suburbs and taluks Hindu
Seats won 7
Elected Prime Minister

Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
SML

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Sind were held in January and February 1937. These were the first elections in the province after its creation in 1936. The Government of India Act 1935 had allocated sixty assembly seats to Sind, based on which it now formed an assembly of its own.

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