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| election_name = 1955 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
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| type = legislative
| vote_type = Popular
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| country = India
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| next_election = 1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1957
| seats_for_election = All 196 seats in the [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| majority_seats = 99
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| leader1 = [[B. Gopala Reddy]]
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| title = [[List of Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh|Chief Minister]]
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| percentage1 = 39.35%
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}}Elections to the [[Andhra State]] [[Legislative Assembly]] were held on 11 February 1955. 581 candidates contested for the 167 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 29 two-member constituencies and 138 single-member constituencies.<ref name="APECI1955" /> The members of the first assembly (1955–62) were allowed a seven-year term. That is to say in 1957, elections were conducted in the newly added region of Telangana alone and then in 1962 general elections were held for the state as a whole.<ref>p. 281, Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies (), Christophe Jaffrelot, Sanjay Kumar, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.</ref>

==State Formation and Reorganization==
On 1 October 1953, a separate [[Andhra State]], consisting of the Telugu-speaking areas of the composite Madras State, with 167 constituencies with 190 seats in the Assembly, was formed. On 1 November 1956, Andhra State was merged with [[Hyderabad State]] under [[States Reorganisation Act, 1956]], to form a single state, [[Andhra Pradesh]]. The districts of Raichur, Gulbarga, and the Marathwada district were detached from the Hyderabad State while merging with [[Andhra State]]. Besides, the Siruguppa taluk, the Bellary taluk, the Hospet taluk, and a small area of the Mallapuram sub-taluk were transferred from [[Mysore State]] to Andhra Pradesh. The districts of Raichur and Gulbarga were transferred to the Mysore State, while the Marathwada district was transferred to the [[Bombay State]].<ref name="1955ReorgStates">{{cite web | url=http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1955_7/42/reorganisation_of_statesthe_approach_and_arrangements.pdf | title=Reorganisation of States, 1955 | work=The Economic Weekly | date=15 October 1955 | accessdate=25 July 2015}}</ref> This resulted in re-organization of assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh giving way to 85 constituencies with 105 seats in the assembly.

==Results==
<section begin=Results />{{election table|title=Summary of results of the [[1955 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]<ref name="APECI1955">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1955/StatRep_AP_1955.pdf | title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1955 : To the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh | publisher=Election Commission of India | access-date=2014-11-17}}</ref> |sortable=yes}}
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;"
! class="unsortable" |
! Political party !! Flag !! Seats <br /> Contested !! Won !! % of <br /> Seats !! Votes !! Vote %
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Communist Party of India]]
| [[File:CPI-banner.svg|35px]]
| 169 || 15 || 7.65 || 26,85,251 || 31.13
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Indian National Congress]]
| [[File:INC Flag Official.jpg|INC_Flag_Official|35px]]
| 142 || 119 || 60.71 || 33,94,109 || 39.35
|-
| {{party color cell|Praja Socialist Party}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Praja Socialist Party]]
|
| 45 || 13 || 6.63 || 4,81,666 || 5.58
|-
|
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Krishikar Lok Party]]
|
| 37 || 22 || 11.23 || 6,25,827 || 37.26
|-
| {{party color cell|Praja Party}}
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Praja Party]]
|
| 12 || 5 || 2.55 || 2,40,884 || 2.79
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|
| 170 || 22 || 11.23 || 11,88,887 || 13.78
|- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! colspan = 3| Total seats
! 196 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 1,13,36,618 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 86,24,842 (59.15%)
|}<section end=Results />

== By-elections ==
On 16 July 1955 a by-election was held for the Burugupudi seat after the death of the sitting [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] and State Minister for Agriculture [[N. Venkata Rama Rao]]. N. Venkataratnam of the [[Indian National Congress]] was elected unopposed.<ref name="e">Election Commission of India. {{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls |title=Bye-election results 1952-95|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111183847/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls|archive-date=11 January 2012|format=XLS}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cMTAAAAIAAJ|title=Asian Recorder, Vol. 1|year=1955|page=326}}</ref><ref name="FisherBondurant19562">{{cite book|author1=Margaret Welpley Fisher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wg82AAAAIAAJ|title=The Indian experience with democratic elections|author2=Joan Valérie Bondurant|publisher=University of California|year=1956|page=4}}</ref>

In July 1955 a by-election was held for the Sarvepalli seat after the resignation of the sitting [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] [[Bezawada Gopala Reddy]] (who had won two seats in the assembly election, and had to resign from one of them).<ref name="FisherBondurant19562"/> The election was won by the Indian National Congress candidate V.K. Reddi, won obtained 22,835 votes (60%), whilst the independent S.A. Reddi got 15,218 votes (40%).<ref name="FisherBondurant19562" /><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> Whilst the Congress Party won the election by a comfortable margin, its percentage of the popular vote had decreased by 7.8%.<ref name="FisherBondurant19562" />

==See also==

* [[1955 elections in India]]
* [[1951 Hyderabad Legislative Assembly election]]
* [[1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]

==References==
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