1955 Andhra State Legislative Assembly election
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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.[1] The members of 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.[2]
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. In addition, 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.[3] This resulted in re-organization of assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh giving way to 85 constituencies with 105 seats in the assembly.
Results
Template:Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1955
See also
- 1955 elections in India
- 1951 Hyderabad Legislative Assembly election
- 1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
References
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
APECI1955was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ p. 281, Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies (), Christophe Jaffrelot, Sanjay Kumar, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.
- ^ "Reorganisation of States, 1955" (PDF). The Economic Weekly. 15 October 1955. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
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