General elections were held in British India in 1920 to elect members to the Imperial Legislative Council and the Provincial Councils. They were the first elections in the country's modern history. The new Central Legislative Assembly which was the lower chamber of the Imperial Legislative Council was based in Delhi had 104 elected seats, of which 66 were contested and thirty eight were reserved for Europeans elected through the Chambers of Commerce. For the upper chamber, the Council of State, 24 of the 34 seats were contested, whilst five were reserved for Muslims, three for Whites, one for Sikhs and one for the United Provinces. The Parliament was opened by the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn on 9 February 1921. Alongside the national elections there were also elections to 637 seats in Provincial Assemblies. Of these, 440 were contested, 188 had a single candidate elected unopposed. Despite the calls by Mahatma Gandhi for a boycott of the elections, only six had no candidate. Within the Provincial Assemblies 38 were reserved for White voters.
Results
Central Legislative Assembly
Members of Central Legislative Assembly
Officials
Government of India
Nominated from Provinces
Nominated Non-Officials
Special Interests:Henry Gidney, N. M. Joshi, J. P. Cotelingam, Rai Sheo Prasad Tulshan Bahadur
Provinces: T. V. Seshagiri Iyer, C. Krishnaswami Rao, Ashraf O. Jamall, Nawab Khwaja Habibullah, N. M. Samarth, Mahomed Hajeebhoy, Maulvi Abdul Quadir, Lakshmi Narayan Lal, Sardar Bahadur Gajjan Singh, Rana Umanath Bakhsh Singh, B. H. R. Jatkar, Abdur Rahim
Elected Non-Officials
Assam: Debi Charan Barua, Girish Chandra Nag, Maulvi Amjad Ali, George Bridge, Lt. Col. D. Herbert
Bengal:Sir Deva Prosad Sarbadhicari, Jogendra Nath Mukherjee, K. C. Neogy, Jadu Nath Majumdar, Tara Prosanna Mukherji, Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri, Prince Afsar-ul-Mulk Mirza Muhammad Akram Hussain, Zahiruddin Ahmed, Maulvi Abul Kasem, Khabeeruddin Ahmed, Saiyed Muhammad Abdulla, Munshi Abdul Rahman, Darcy Lindsay, Frank Carter, W. S. J. Wilson, A. D. Pickford, R. J. G. Ballantyne, Satish Chandra Ghosh, Nibaran Chandra Sircar, D. K. Mitter
Bihar & Orissa: Babu Baidyanath Prashad Singh, Babu Adit Prashad Sinha, B. N. Misra, Babu Braja Sundar Das, Rai Bahadur Lachmi Prasad Sinha, Sarfaraz Hussain Khan, Maulvi Miyan Asjad-ul-lah, Syed Muhammad Ismail, Raja R. N. Bhanja Deo, Raja Sivanandan Prasad Singh, Babu Ambika Prasad Sinha, Satya Narain Singh
Bombay:Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad, Jamnadas Dwarkadas Dharamsy, Keshao Ganesh Bagde, Balkrishna Sitaram Kamat, Sardar Bomanji Ardeshir Dalal, Anna Babaji Latthe, Seth Harchandrai Vishandas, Salebhoy Karimji Barodawala, Sardar Gulam Jilani Bijlikhan, Shaikh Abdul Majid, Alibaksh Mahomed Hussein, Wali Mohamed Hussanally, Reginald Arthur Spence, Edwin Lessware Price, Sir Montagu de Pomeray Webb, N. B. Saklatvala, Rahimtoola Currimbhoy, Vithaldas Thackersey, Manmohandas Ramji, S. C. Shahani
Burma: F. McCarthy, Padamji Ginwala, Maung Maung Sin, J. C. Chatterji, J. N. Basu
Central Provinces:Hari Singh Gour, Kunj Bihari Lall Agnihotri, Pyari Lal Misra, Muhammad Ahsan Khan, Beohar Raghubir Sinha
Madras: T. Rangachari, C. S. Subrahmanayam, Patri Venkata Srinivasa Rao, B. Venkatapatiraju, J. Ramayya Pantulu, Sambanda Mudaliar, P. S. Sivaswami Iyer, M. Krishnaswamy Reddi, K. M. Nayar, T. Muhammad Hussain Saheb Bahadur, Mahmood Schamnad Saheb Bahadur, Mir Asad Ali, Muhammad Habibullah, R. E. V. Arbuthnot, Narayandas Girdhardas, Eardley Norton, Rama Varma Valia Raja Chirakkal
Punjab: Pandit Jawahar Lal Bhargava, Bakshi Sohan Lal, Dr. Nand Lal, Chaudhari Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Ahmad Baksh Khan, Chaudhri Shahab-ud-din, Nawab Mohammad Ibrahim Ali Khan, Chaudhri Shahab-ud-din, Makhdum Syed Rajan Baksh Shah, Raja M. M. Ikramullah Khan, Bhai Man Singh, Sardar Gulab Singh, Baba Ujagar Singh Bedi
United Provinces: Munshi Iswar Saran, Pyare Lal, Lala Girdharilal Agarwala, Pandit Radha Kishen Das, Bishambhar Nath, Sankata Prasad Bajpai, Munshi Mahadeo Prasad, Raja Suraj Baksh Singh, Haji Wajihuddin, Muhammad Yamin Khan, Mohammad Faiyaz Khan, Syed Nabi Hadi, S. M. Zahid Ali Subzposh, Syed Haider Karrar Jafri, Raja Kushal Pal Singh, Sir Logie Pirie Watson
