- Multi-member constituencies?
- To give due representation to SCs & STs.
- Combination – General + SC / or / General + ST / or / General + SC + ST.
1st Lok Sabha poll – for 489 PCs – post temporary delimitation.
- 72 reserved for SCs.
- 26 reserved for STs.
- 71 SC seats – as part of 2-members PCs + 1 SC seat – as part of 3-member PC (North Bengal PC).
- 15 ST seats – as part of 2-member PCs + 1 ST seat – as part of 3-member PC (North Bengal PC).
- 10 ST seats – reserved as single-member PCs.
- 489 – 314 single member PCs + 86 2-member PCs (or 172 seats) + 1 3-member PC (3 seats).
Legislative Assembly Seats
- Total – 3283 seats.
- SC seats – 477.
- ST seats – 192.
- 3-member AC – Nasik-Igatpuri (Bombay).
- Single member SC AC – Mainaguri (West Bengal).
- Single member ST ACs – 88.
- 2-member ST Acs – 103.
- 2,124 single-member Acs + 578 2-member Acs + one 3-member AC.