1952 Ajmer State Legislative Assembly election

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1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election
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27 March 1952 (1952-03-27) 1957 (RJ)  

All 30 seats in the Ajmer Legislative Assembly
16 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority party
 
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Leader Haribhau Upadhyaya
Party Indian National Congress Bharatiya Jana Sangh
Seats won203

Elected Chief Minister of Ajmer

Haribhau Upadhyaya
INC

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Ajmer State
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Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951

Elections to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly were held on 27 March 1952. 134 candidates competed for the 30 seats in the Assembly. [1] This was the final election for the Ajmer Legislative Assembly: 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]

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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 1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election [1]
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PartyFlagSeats
Contested
Won % of
Seats
VotesVote %
Indian National Congress Flag of Indian National Congress.png 302066.671,04,41144.47
Bharatiya Jana Sangh 15310.0028,05711.95
Pursharathi Panchayat 6310.0015,7817.72
Communist Party of India CPI-banner.svg 203,4941.49
Socialist Party 201,0550.45
Independent politician 79413.3381,99034.92
Total Seats30Voters4,62,810Turnout2,34,788 (50.73%)

Elected members

#ConstituencyMemberParty
1Ajmer-I (South West)Parasram Pursharathi Panchayat
Arjandas Pursharathi Panchayat
2Ajmer-II (East)Bal Krishna Kaul Indian National Congress
Harjit Lal Indian National Congress
3Ajmer-III (Kala Bagh)Ramesh Chandra Indian National Congress
4Ajmer-IV (Town Hall)Bhiman Das Pursharathi Panchayat
5 Ajmer - V (Naya Bazar) Ambalal Bharatiya Jana Sangh
6Ajmer-VI (Dhaldin Ka Jhopra)Syed Abbas Ali Indian National Congress
7ShrinagarHari Bhao Upadhaya Indian National Congress
8DerathuHimmat Ali Indian National Congress
9JethanaNarayan Indian National Congress
Bhagirath Singh Indian National Congress
10Pushker SouthJai Narain Indian National Congress
11Pushker NorthShiv Narayan Singh Indian National Congress
12GagwanaKishan Lal Lamror Indian National Congress
13 Nasirabad Laxminaryan Indian National Congress
Mahendra Singh Independent
14BhinaiKalyan Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
15Deolia KalanChagan Lal Indian National Congress
16SawarLaxman Singh Independent
17 Kekri Jethmal Indian National Congress
Sewadas Indian National Congress
18Beawar City NorthBrijmohanlal Indian National Congress
19Beawar City SouthJagan Nath Indian National Congress
20ShyamgarhWali Mohammad Indian National Congress
21 Masuda Narayan Singh Independent
Surajmal Morya Indian National Congress
22NayanagarGanpati Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
23JawajaChiman Singh Independent
24TodgarhPrem Singh Indian National Congress

By-elections

In September 1953 a by-election was held for the Bhinai seat. [3] [4] In the original election, the Bhinai seat had been won by Kalyan Singh of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, who defeated the Indian National Congress candidate Madan Singh with 3,164 votes (51.58%) against 2,970 (48.42%). [5] However, the election in Bhinai was declared void as nomination papers had been improperly rejected and a by-election was called. [4] Three candidates contested the by-election; Kalyan Singh of BJS, Chiman Singh of INC and independent candidate Misri Lal Chitlangia. [3] [6] Kalyan Singh retained the seat with 3,662 votes (65.3%). The Congress candidate got 1,635 votes (29.2%) and Chitalngia got 310 votes (5.5%). [3] [4]

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 13 October 2014.
  2. "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. 15 October 1955. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
  4. 1 2 3 Indian Press Digests. Monograph Series (2-3 ed.). 1956. p. 1.
  5. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF AJMER
  6. Gazette of India. Controller of Publications. 1954. p. 280.