Explanation:

Provincial elections were held in British India in the winter of 1936-37 as mandated by the Government of India Act 1935.

Elections were held in eleven provinces - Madras, Central Provinces, Bihar, Orissa, the United Provinces, the Bombay Presidency, Assam, the North-West Frontier Province, Bengal, Punjab and Sind.

• The final results of the elections were declared in February 1937.
• The Indian National Congress emerged in power in seven of the provinces, Bombay, Madras, the Central Provinces, the United Provinces, the North-West Frontier Province, Bihar, and Orissa. Congress got clear majority in 5 provinces
• The exceptions were Bengal, where the Congress was nevertheless the largest party, Punjab, Sindh, and Assam.
• The All-India Muslim League failed to form the government in any province.
• The Congress ministries resigned in October and November 1939, in protest against Viceroy Lord Linlithgow's action of declaring India to be a belligerent in the Second World War without consulting the elected representatives of the Indian peoples.