Write a critical note on the Provincial Elections held in 1946.
After 1937, provincial elections were once again held in 1946. The results of these elections were as given below: 1. The Congress won all the seats in the general constituencies. It captured 91.3% of the non-Muslim votes. 2. The Muslim League also got a spectacular victory in constituencies reserved for the Muslims. It won all the thirty reserved constituencies in the centre. It got 86.6% of the Muslim vote. 3. Out of the total of 509 reserved constituencies in all the provinces, the Muslim League won in 442 constituencies. In other words, the Muslim League was able to prove that it really represented the Muslim community in India. It came up as the dominant party of the Muslims and vindicated its claim that it was the only spokesman of the Muslims of India. 4. In these elections, only a few people enjoyed the right to vote. The voters were just 10 to 12% of the total population. Similarly, only one per cent voters enjoyed the right to vote for the Central Assembly
