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Elections to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly were held on 27 March 1952. 134 candidates competed for the 30 seats in the Assembly. This was the final election for the Ajmer Legislative Assembly: on 1 November 1956, under the provisions of the
States Reorganisation Act, 1956 The States Reorganisation act, 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines. Although additional changes to India's state boundaries have been made since 1956, the States ...
, the Ajmer State was abolished and its constituencies were merged into Rajasthan.


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.


Results

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Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote % , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Indian National Congress , , 30 , , 20 , , 66.67 , , 1,04,411 , , 44.47 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Bharatiya Jana Sangh , , 15 , , 3 , , 10.00 , , 28,057 , , 11.95 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,
Pursharathi Panchayat Pursharathi Panchayat ( hi, पुरुषारथी पंचायत) was a political party in India. The party was formed by Partition refugees from Sindh in June 1951.Sadasivan, S. N. Party and Democracy in India'. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-H ...
, , 6 , , 3 , , 10.00 , , 15,781 , , 7.72 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,
Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...
, , 2 , , 0 , , , , 3,494 , , 1.49 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party (India) , , 2 , , 0 , , , , 1,055 , , 0.45 , - , , , 79 , , 4 , , 13.33 , , 81,990 , , 34.92 , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, Total Seats ! 30 !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 4,62,810 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! 2,34,788 (50.73%)


Elected members


By-elections

In September 1953 a by-election was held for the Bhinai seat.Election Commission of India.
Bye-election results 1952-95
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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%).Election Commission of India.
STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF AJMER
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However, the election in Bhinai was declared void as nomination papers had been improperly rejected and a by-election was called. Three candidates contested the by-election; Kalyan Singh of BJS, Chiman Singh of INC and independent candidate Misri Lal Chitlangia. 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%).


See also

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1951–52 elections in India This article is about the first election held in Independent India in 1955 Presidential election The Election Commission of India held the first presidential elections of India on May 2, 1952. Dr. Rajendra Prasad won his first election with 67 ...
* Ajmer State *
1951 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election Elections to the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly were held on 29 February 1952. 616 candidates contested for the 140 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 20 two-member constituencies and 120 single-member constituencies. Results !colspa ...
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1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election Elections to the second Rajasthan Legislative Assembly were held in 1957. State Reorganization On 1 November 1956, under States Reorganisation Act, 1956, the Ajmer State, the Abu Road taluka of the Banaskantha district of Bombay State, the Sune ...


References

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