1952 Ajmer State 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) 1957 (RJ) →
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
Elected Chief Minister of Ajmer Haribhau Upadhyaya INC

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]

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

• India portal

• 1951–52 elections in India
• Ajmer State
• 1952 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.
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.