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 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

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

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.