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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| flag_year =
| flag_image =
| type = legislative
| vote_type = Popular
| ongoing = no
| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Pt. Haribhau Upadhyaya.jpg|bSize=120|cWidth=100|cHeight=120|oLeft=11|oTop=0}}
| leader1 = [[Haribhau Upadhyaya]]
| party1 = [[Indian National Congress]]
| seats1 = 20
| image2 = Oil lamp.svg
| leader2 =
| party2 = [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
| seats2 = 3
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| election_date = {{Start date|1952|03|27|df=yes}}
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| next_election = 1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = {{Nowrap|1957 (RJ)}}
| votes_for_election =
| needed_votes =
| seats_for_election = All 30 seats in the [[Ajmer Legislative Assembly]]
| majority_seats = 16
| opinion_polls =
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| after_election = [[Haribhau Upadhyaya]]
| after_party = Indian National Congress
| title = [[Ajmer State#Chief Minister|Chief Minister of Ajmer]]
}}

[[File:Ajmer in India (1951).svg|thumb|Ajmer State]]
[[File:India Administrative Divisions 1951.svg|thumb|Indian administrative divisions, as of 1951]]

Elections to the [[Ajmer State|Ajmer]] [[State legislative assemblies of India|Legislative Assembly]] were held on 27 March 1952. 134 candidates competed for the 30 seats in the Assembly.<ref name="AjmerECI1951"/> 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]].<ref name="1955ReorgStates">{{cite web|date=15 October 1955|title=Reorganisation of States, 1955|url=http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1955_7/42/reorganisation_of_statesthe_approach_and_arrangements.pdf|publisher=The Economic Weekly|accessdate=25 July 2015}}</ref>

== 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, Rajasthan|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.<ref name="AjmerECI1951"/>

== Results ==

<section begin=Results />{{election table|title=Summary of results of the 1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election<ref name="AjmerECI1951">{{cite web |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_AJMER.pdf |title= Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Ajmer |format= PDF |publisher= Election Commission of India |access-date= 2014-10-13}}</ref> |sortable=yes}}
!colspan=8|[[File:India Ajmer Legislative Assembly 1952.svg]]
|-
!colspan=2|Party !! Flag !! Seats <br /> Contested !! Won !! % of <br /> Seats !! Votes !! Vote %
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| [[File:Flag of Indian National Congress.png|70px]]
| 30 || 20 || 66.67 || 1,04,411 || 44.47
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|
| 15 || 3 || 10.00 || 28,057 || 11.95
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Pursharathi Panchayat}}
|
| 6 || 3 || 10.00 || 15,781 || 7.72
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
| [[File:CPI-banner.svg|70px]]
| 2 || 0 || || 3,494 || 1.49
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Socialist Party (India, 1948)}}
|
| 2 || 0 || || 1,055 || 0.45
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Independent politician}}
|
| 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%)
|}<section end=Results />

== Elected members ==

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!{{Number sign}}
!Constituency
!Member
!colspan=2|Party
|-
| rowspan="2" |1
| rowspan="2" |Ajmer-I (South West) || Parasram || {{Full party name with color|Pursharathi Panchayat}}
|-
| [[Arjandas Tulsidas Gajwani|Arjandas]] || {{Full party name with color|Pursharathi Panchayat}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |2
| rowspan="2" |Ajmer-II (East) || [[Bal Krishna Kaul]] || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| Harjit Lal || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|3
| Ajmer-III (Kala Bagh) || Ramesh Chandra || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|4
| Ajmer-IV (Town Hall) || Bhiman Das || {{Full party name with color|Pursharathi Panchayat}}
|-
|5
| [[Ajmer - V (Naya Bazar) Assembly constituency|Ajmer - V (Naya Bazar)]] || Ambalal || {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
|6
| Ajmer-VI (Dhaldin Ka Jhopra) || Syed Abbas Ali || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|7
| Shrinagar || Hari Bhao Upadhaya || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|8
| Derathu || Himmat Ali || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |9
| rowspan="2" |Jethana || [[Narayan (politician)|Narayan]] || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| Bhagirath Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|10
| Pushker South || Jai Narain || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|11
| Pushker North || Shiv Narayan Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|12
| Gagwana || Kishan Lal Lamror || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |13
| rowspan="2" |[[Nasirabad Assembly constituency|Nasirabad]]|| Laxminaryan || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| Mahendra Singh || {{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}
|-
|14
| Bhinai || Kalyan Singh || {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
|15
| Deolia Kalan || Chagan Lal || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|16
| Sawar || Laxman Singh || {{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |17
| rowspan="2" |[[Kekri Assembly constituency|Kekri]]|| Jethmal || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| Sewadas || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|18
| Beawar City North || [[Brij Mohan Lal Sharma|Brijmohanlal]] || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|19
| Beawar City South || Jagan Nath || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|20
| Shyamgarh || Wali Mohammad || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |21
| rowspan="2" |[[Masuda Assembly constituency|Masuda]]|| Narayan Singh || {{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}
|-
| Surajmal Morya || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|22
| Nayanagar || [[Thakur Ganpat Singh|Ganpati Singh]] || {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}
|-
|23
| Jawaja || [[Chiman Singh Bhati|Chiman Singh]] || {{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}
|-
|24
| Todgarh || Prem Singh || {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|}

== By-elections ==

In September 1953 a [[1953 Bhinai by-election|by-election]] was held for the Bhinai seat.<ref name="e2">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls Bye-election results 1952-95]''</ref><ref name="p2">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tu4sAAAAIAAJ|title=Indian Press Digests. Monograph Series|year=1956|edition=2-3|page=1}}</ref> 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%).<ref name="a19512">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_AJMER.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF AJMER]''</ref> However, the election in Bhinai was declared void as nomination papers had been improperly rejected and a by-election was called.<ref name="p2" /> Three candidates contested the by-election; Kalyan Singh of BJS, Chiman Singh of INC and independent candidate Misri Lal Chitlangia.<ref name="e2" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KTsPAQAAIAAJ|title=Gazette of India|publisher=Controller of Publications|year=1954|page=280}}</ref> 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%).<ref name="e2" /><ref name="p2" />

== See also ==

{{Portal|India}}

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

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:1952 State Assembly elections in India|Ajmer]]
[[Category:Ajmer Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Ajmer district]]
[[Category:March 1952 in Asia]]
[[Category:History of Ajmer]]

1952 Ajmer State Legislative Assembly election - Revision history

Gaurav at 10:48, 29 April 2026