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. 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.

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 Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...

under

States Reorganisation Act, 1956 The States Reorganisation act, 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines. Although additional changes to India's state boundaries have been made since 1956, the States ...

, 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 Bombay State was a large Indian state created at the time of India's Independence, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding Sou ...

. This resulted in re-organization of assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh giving way to 85 constituencies with 105 seats in the assembly.

Results

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Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

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, 142 , , 119 , , 60.71 , , 33,94,109 , , 39.35 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Praja Socialist Party The Praja Socialist Party, abbreviated as PSP, was an Indian political party. It was founded when the Socialist Party, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh (Sinha), merged with the Kisan Mazdoo ...

, , 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 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Praja Party , , 12 , , 5 , , 2.55 , , 2,40,884 , , 2.79 , - , , , 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%)

By-elections

On 16 July 1955 a by-election was held for the Burugupudi seat after the death of the sitting MLA and State Minister for Agriculture

N. Venkata Rama Rao N is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. N or n may also refer to: Mathematics * \mathbb, the set of natural numbers * N, the field norm * N for ''nullae'', a rare Roman numeral for zero * n, the size of a statistical sample S ...

. N. Venkataratnam of the Indian National Congress was elected unopposed.Election Commission of India. In July 1955 a by-election was held for the Sarvepalli seat after the resignation of the sitting MLA

Bezawada Gopala Reddy Bezawada Gopala Reddy (5 August 1907 – 9 March 1997) was an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of the erstwhile Andhra State (28 March 1955 – 1 November 1956) and Governor of Uttar Pradesh (1 May 1967 – 1 July 1972). He was popular ...

(who had won two seats in the assembly election, and had to resign from one of them). 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%).Election Commission of India.
Bye-election results 1952-95
' Whilst the Congress Party won the election by a comfortable margin, its percentage of the popular vote had decreased by 7.8%.

References

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State Formation and Reorganization

Results

By-elections

See also

References