1934 Indian general election
General elections were held in British India in 1934. The Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party in the Central Legislative Assembly.
The total electorate for the 1934 elections was 1,415,892, of which 1,135,899 were in contested constituencies. The total number of votes polled was 608,198. The election marked the first year in which Indian women were eligible to vote in any but a local election. Of the 81,602 enrolled women voters, 62,757 of whom were in contested constituencies, only 14,505 actually used the ballot.
Results
Out of the 51 general seats of the general constituencies, the Congress won 37 seats. The party also won 5 seats in the non-General constituencies. A Congress splinter group, the Congress Nationalist Party, was the only other one to gain a significant number of seats. Most of the 30 Muslim constituencies elected independents to the Council, but within the Council, leadership of the independent Muslims was assumed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who, shortly after the election, resumed the leadership of the moribund Muslim League from which he had previously retired. Of the 32 seats filled without a contest, twelve were in Muslim constituencies, eight in European constituencies, eight in general constituencies, three reserved for landholders and one reserved for commerce.Membership by province
| Province | Europeans | Independent | Minor parties | Congress | Congress | Total |
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Ajmer-Merwara | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Bengal | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 17 | |
| Bihar and Orissa | 5 | 7 | 12 | |||
| Bombay | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 16 | |
| Burma | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Central Provinces | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
| Delhi | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Madras | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 16 | |
| North West Frontier Province | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Punjab | 8 | 3 | 1 | 12 | ||
| United Provinces | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 16 | |
| Total | 8 | 41 | 15 | 37 | 5 | 106 |
The party position in 1941 stood as follows:
Central Legislative Assembly
| Party | Seats |
| Indian National Congress | 40 |
| All-India Muslim League | 25 |
| Congress Nationalist Party | 11 |
| Non Party | 25 |
| Independents | 10 |
| Europeans | 9 |
| Officials | 20 |
| Total | 140 |
Council of State
| Party | Seats |
| Independent Progressive Party | 10 |
| Indian National Congress | 6 |
| All-India Muslim League | 6 |
| Officials | 20 |
| Total | 42 |
Members of Central Legislative Assembly
Nominated members
- Government of India: Sir Frank Noyce, Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar, Sir James Grigg, Sir Henry Craik, Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, P. R. Rau, Girija Shankar Bajpai, Sir Aubrey Metcalfe, G. R. F. Tottenham, A. G. Clow, A. H. Lloyd, A. S. Hands, G. H. Spence, H. Dow
- Officials from Provinces: A. A. Venkatarama Ayyar, R. V. Krishna Ayyar, S. A. V. Acott, Saiyid Aminuddin, A. J. Dash, Srimanta Kumar Das Gupta, Shaikh Khurshaid Muhammad, N. J. Roughton, W. V. Grigson, J. H. Hutton, L. Owen, J. F. Sale, Shyam Narayan Singh, R. M. MacDougall
- Berar Representative: M. S. Aney
- Special Interests: M. C. Rajah, Henry Gidney, Dr. F. X. DeSouza, L. C. Buss, N. M. Joshi
- Non-Officials from Provinces: Dr. R. D. Dalal, Sir Satya Charan Mukherjee, Sardar Jawahar Singh, Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma,
Elected Members
- Ajmer-Merwara: Seth Bhagchand Soni
- Assam: Kuladhar Chaliha, Nabin Chandra Bardoloi, Basanta Kumar Das, Abdul Matin Chaudhury, C. H. Witherington
- Bengal: N. C. Chunder, P. N. Banerjea, Amarendranath Chatterjee, Pandit Lakshmi Kanta Maitra, Suryya Kumar Som, Akhil Chandra Datta, Sir Abdur Rahim, Haji Chowdhury Muhammad Ismail Khan, Sir Abdul Halim Ghuznavi, Anwarul Azim, Khabeeruddin Ahmed, T. Chapman Mortimer, A. Aikman, Dhirendra Kanta Lahiri Chaudhury, Babu Baijnath Bajoria
- Bihar & Orissa: Bhubananda Das, Nilakantha Das, Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Shri Krishna Sinha, Bepin Bihari Verma, Kailash Bihari Lall, Satya Narain Singh, Raja Bahadur Harihar Prasad Narayan Sinha
- Bombay: G. V. Deshmukh, Sir Cowasji Jehangir, Lalchand Navalrai, Bhulabhai Desai, Keshavrao Jedhe, Narhar Vishnu Gadgil, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Abdullah Haroon, Hooseinbhoy A. Lalljee, Homi Mody, Mathuradas Vissanji, Sir Ghulam Hidayatullah, W. B. Hossack, Sir Leslie Hudson
- Burma: Dr. Thein Maung, U Ba Si, F. B. Leach
- Central Provinces: Narayan Bhaskar Khare, Seth Govind Das, Ghanshyam Singh Gupta, Khan Saheb Nawab Siddique Ali Khan, Seth Sheodass Daga
- Delhi: Asaf Ali
- Madras: S. Satyamurti, M. A. Ayyangar, V. V. Giri, Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao, N. G. Ranga, T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar, C. N. Muthuranga Mudaliar, T. S. S. Rajan, P. S. Kumaraswami Raja, Samuel Aaron, Umar Ali Shah, Moulvi Sayyid Murtuza Saheb Bahadur, Haji Abdul Sathar H. Essak Seit, F. E. James, Raja Sir Vasudeva Rajah of Kollengode, Sami Venkatachalam Chetty
- NWFP: Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan
- Punjab: Lala Sham Lal, Bhai Parmanand, Raizada Hans Raj, Ghulam Bhik Nairang, K. L. Gauba, Zafar Ali Khan, H. M. Abdullah, Nawab Sahibzada Sayed Sir Muhammad Mehr Shah, Khan Bahadur Shaik Fazal-i-Haq Piracha, Khan Bahadur Nawab Makhdum Murid Hussain Qureshi, Sardar Mangal Singh, Sardar Harbans Singh Brar, Sardar Sant Singh, M. Ghiasuddin
- United Provinces: Bhagwan Das, Choudhri Raghubir Narain Singh, Sri Krishna Dutta Paliwal, Kunwar Raghubir Singh, Govind Ballabh Pant, Sri Prakasa, Krishna Kant Malaviya, Muhammad Yamin Khan, Maulvi Sir Muhammad Yakub, Ziauddin Ahmad, Mohamed Azhar Ali