[1][2] 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.

[1] For the upper chamber, the Council of State, 24 of the 34 seats were contested, whilst five were reserved for Muslims, three for Europeans, one for Sikhs and one for the United Provinces.

[1] The Parliament was opened by the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn on 9 February 1921.

Despite the calls by Mahatma Gandhi for a boycott of the elections, only six had no candidate.

[1] Single transferable vote (STV) was used on experimental basis to elect three members of the Legislative Assembly of India for the European constituency of Bengal and to elect four members of the Council of State of India from the non-Muslim constituency of Madras.