1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election

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

1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election
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

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]
Political PartyFlagSeats
Contested		Won% of
Seats		VotesVote %
Indian National Congress 302066.671,04,41144.47
Bharatiya Jana Sangh 15310.0028,05711.95
Pursharathi Panchayat 6310.0015,7817.72
Communist Party of India 203,4941.49
Socialist Party (India) 201,0550.45
Independent 79413.3381,99034.92
Total Seats 30Voters4,62,810Turnout2,34,788 (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. "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.
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