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] 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]

1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election
27 March 1952 (1952-03-27)
All 30 seats in the Ajmer Legislative Assembly
16 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Haribhau Upadhyaya
Party Indian National Congress Bharatiya Jana Sangh
Seats won 20 3
Ajmer State
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]
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 201,0550.45
Independent politician 79413.3381,99034.92
Total Seats 30Voters4,62,810Turnout2,34,788 (50.73%)

Elected members
Constituency Member Party
Ajmer-I (South West)Parasram Pursharathi Panchayat
Arjandas Pursharathi Panchayat
Ajmer-II (East)Bal Krishna Kaul Indian National Congress
Harjit Lal Indian National Congress
Ajmer-III (Kala Bagh)Ramesh Chandra Indian National Congress
Ajmer-IV (Town Hall)Bhiman Das Pursharathi Panchayat
Ajmer - V (Naya Bazar)Ambalal Bharatiya Jana Sangh
Ajmer-VI (Dhaldin Ka Jhopra)Syed Abbas Ali Indian National Congress
ShrinagarHari Bhao Upadhaya Indian National Congress
DerathuHimmat Ali Indian National Congress
JethanaNarayan Indian National Congress
Bhagirath Singh Indian National Congress
Pushker SouthJai Narain Indian National Congress
Pushker NorthShiv Narayan Singh Indian National Congress
GagwanaKishan Lal Lamror Indian National Congress
NasirabadLaxminaryan Indian National Congress
Mahendra Singh Independent
BhinaiKalyan Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
Deolia KalanChagan Lal Indian National Congress
SawarLaxman Singh Independent
KekriJethmal Indian National Congress
Sewadas Indian National Congress
Beawar City NorthBrijmohanlal Indian National Congress
Beawar City SouthJagan Nath Indian National Congress
ShyamgarhWali Mohammad Indian National Congress
MasudaNarayan Singh Independent
Surajmal Morya Indian National Congress
NayanagarGanpati Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
JawajaChiman Singh Independent
TodgarhPrem 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. "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. Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
  4. 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.
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