1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
← 1955 (Andhra)
←1952 (Hyderabad)		 25 February 1957 (1957-02-25) 1962 →
105 (of 301) seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
151 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Puchalapalli Sundarayya
Party INC PDF
Leader's seat Kurnool Gannavaram
Seats won 187 37
Seat change new state new state
Popular vote 1,707,364 927,333
Percentage 47.38% 25.73%
Chief Minister before election

Office Established New State

 Chief Minister

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
INC

The 1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election were held on 25 February 1957. 319 candidates contested for the 85 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 20 two-member constituencies and 65 single-member constituencies.[1] The members of the first assembly (1955–62) who were elected in the 1955 election 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, 1957 : To the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. ^ p. 281, Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies (), Christophe Jaffrelot, Sanjay Kumar, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.