Ajmer Legislative Assembly election, 1952

Ajmer Legislative Assembly election, 1952
India
All 30 seats in the Legislature of Ajmer
16 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Haribhau Upadhyaya
Party Indian National Congress Bharatiya Jana Sangh
Seats won 20 3
Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951

Elections to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly were held on March 27, 1952. 134 candidates competed for the 30 seats in the Assembly.[1]

Constituencies

The Ajmer Legislative Assembly consisted of 30 seats distributed in six two-member constituencies; Ajmer-I (South West), Ajmer-II (East), Jethana, Nasirabad, Kekri and Masuda and eighteen single-member constituencies. None of these seats were under reserved category for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Total 134 candidates contested for these 30 seats. Maximum number of candidates were 13 from Ajmer-I (South West) and Ajmer-II (East), while Bhinai had only 2 contestants, minimum of all the constituencies.[1]

Results

 Summary of results of the Ajmer Legislative Assembly election, 1952 [1]
Political Party Flag Seats
Contested 		Won % of
Seats 		Votes Vote %
Indian National Congress 30 20 66.67 1,04,411 44.47
Bharatiya Jana Sangh 15 3 10.00 28,057 11.95
Pursharathi Panchayat 6 3 10.00 15,781 7.72
Communist Party of India 2 0 3,494 1.49
Socialist Party (India) 2 0 1,055 0.45
Independent 79 4 13.33 81,990 34.92
Total Seats 30 Voters 4,62,810 Turnout 2,34,788 (50.73 %)

State Reorganization and Merger

On 1 November 1956, under the provisions of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, the Ajmer State was abolished and its constituencies were merged into Rajasthan.[2]

See Also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Ajmer" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
  2. ↑ "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. October 15, 1955. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
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