Ajmer Legislative Assembly election, 1952

Ajmer Legislative Assembly election, 1952

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

• Ajmer State
• 1951–52 elections in India
• Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, 1951
• Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, 1957

References