1952 Ajmer State Legislative Assembly election

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1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election
27 March 1952 (1952-03-27) 1957 (RJ) →
All 30 seats in the Ajmer Legislative Assembly
16 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Pt. Haribhau Upadhyaya.jpg
Leader Haribhau Upadhyaya
Party Indian National Congress Bharatiya Jana Sangh
Seats won 20 3
Elected Chief Minister of Ajmer

Haribhau Upadhyaya
INC

Ajmer State
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]

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]
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 2 0 1,055 0.45
Independent politician 79 4 13.33 81,990 34.92
Total Seats 30 Voters 4,62,810 Turnout 2,34,788 (50.73%)

Elected members

# Constituency Member Party
1 Ajmer-I (South West) Parasram Pursharathi Panchayat
Arjandas Pursharathi Panchayat
2 Ajmer-II (East) Bal Krishna Kaul Indian National Congress
Harjit Lal Indian National Congress
3 Ajmer-III (Kala Bagh) Ramesh Chandra Indian National Congress
4 Ajmer-IV (Town Hall) Bhiman Das Pursharathi Panchayat
5 Ajmer - V (Naya Bazar) Ambalal Bharatiya Jana Sangh
6 Ajmer-VI (Dhaldin Ka Jhopra) Syed Abbas Ali Indian National Congress
7 Shrinagar Hari Bhao Upadhaya Indian National Congress
8 Derathu Himmat Ali Indian National Congress
9 Jethana Narayan Indian National Congress
Bhagirath Singh Indian National Congress
10 Pushker South Jai Narain Indian National Congress
11 Pushker North Shiv Narayan Singh Indian National Congress
12 Gagwana Kishan Lal Lamror Indian National Congress
13 Nasirabad Laxminaryan Indian National Congress
Mahendra Singh Independent
14 Bhinai Kalyan Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
15 Deolia Kalan Chagan Lal Indian National Congress
16 Sawar Laxman Singh Independent
17 Kekri Jethmal Indian National Congress
Sewadas Indian National Congress
18 Beawar City North Brijmohanlal Indian National Congress
19 Beawar City South Jagan Nath Indian National Congress
20 Shyamgarh Wali Mohammad Indian National Congress
21 Masuda Narayan Singh Independent
Surajmal Morya Indian National Congress
22 Nayanagar Ganpati Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
23 Jawaja Chiman Singh Independent
24 Todgarh Prem 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. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b c Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
  4. ^ a b c 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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