1955 Andhra State Legislative Assembly election

1955 Andhra State Legislative Assembly election
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(Madras)		 11 February 1955 (1955-02-11) 1957
(United Andhra Pradesh) →
196 seats in the Andhra State Legislative Assembly
99 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader B. Gopala Reddy NG Ranga
Party INC KLP
Leader's seat Atmakuru didn't contest
Seats won 119 22
Seat change new state new state
Popular vote 3,394,109 625,827
Percentage 39.35% 7.26
Chief Minister before election

Vacant (President's rule)

 Chief Minister

Bezawada Gopala Reddy
INC

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 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1955 : To the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  2. ^ p. 281, Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies (), Christophe Jaffrelot, Sanjay Kumar, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.