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1953 Bhinai by-election
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1953 Bhinai by-election Ajmer State By-election 1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election 1952 1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1957 September 1953 Bhinai constituency Bharatiya Jana Sangh Kalyan Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh 3,662 65.31% Indian National Congress Chiman Singh Indian National Congress 1,635 29.16%
In September 1953 a by-election was held in for the Bhinai seat of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Ajmer. The election was won by BJS candidate Kalyan Singh by a huge margin.
Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95Indian Press Digests. Monograph Series https://books.google.com/books?id=tu4sAAAAIAAJ 2-3 1956 1
In the 1952 Legislative Assembly 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.
The by-election was held in September 1953. Three candidates contested it; Kalyan Singh of BJS, Chiman Singh of INC and independent candidate Misri Lal Chitlangia.Gazette of India https://books.google.com/books?id=KTsPAQAAIAAJ 1954 Controller of Publications 280 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%).
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