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 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

!colspan=8| |- !colspan=2|Party !! Flag !! Seats Contested !! Won !! % of Seats !! Votes !! Vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;"

| 30 || 20 || 66.67 || 1,04,411 || 44.47

| 15 || 3 || 10.00 || 28,057 || 11.95

| 6 || 3 || 10.00 || 15,781 || 7.72

| 2 || 0 || || 3,494 || 1.49

| 2 || 0 || || 1,055 || 0.45

| 79 || 4 || 13.33 || 81,990 || 34.92 |- ! 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

ConstituencyMemberParty1Ajmer-I (South West) Parasram Arjandas 2Ajmer-II (East) Bal Krishna Kaul Harjit Lal 3 Ajmer-III (Kala Bagh) Ramesh Chandra 4 Ajmer-IV (Town Hall) Bhiman Das 5 Ajmer - V (Naya Bazar) Ambalal 6 Ajmer-VI (Dhaldin Ka Jhopra) Syed Abbas Ali 7 Shrinagar Hari Bhao Upadhaya 8 Derathu Himmat Ali 9Jethana Narayan Bhagirath Singh 10 Pushker South Jai Narain 11 Pushker North Shiv Narayan Singh 12 Gagwana Kishan Lal Lamror 13Nasirabad Laxminaryan Mahendra Singh 14 Bhinai Kalyan Singh 15 Deolia Kalan Chagan Lal 16 Sawar Laxman Singh 17Kekri Jethmal Sewadas 18 Beawar City North Brijmohanlal 19 Beawar City South Jagan Nath 20 Shyamgarh Wali Mohammad 21Masuda Narayan Singh Surajmal Morya 22 Nayanagar Ganpati Singh 23 Jawaja Chiman Singh 24 Todgarh Prem Singh

By-elections

In September 1953 a by-election was held for the Bhinai seat.Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95 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 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

1951–52 elections in India Ajmer State 1952 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election

References