Rajasthan Legislative Assembly


The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly or the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Rajasthan.
The assembly meets at Vidhana Bhavan situated in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Members of the Legislative assembly are directly elected by the people for a term of 5 years. Presently, the legislative assembly consists of 200 members.

History

The First Rajasthan Legislative Assembly was inaugurated on 31 March 1952. It had a strength of 160 members. The strength was increased to 190 after the merger of the erstwhile Ajmer State with Rajasthan in 1956. The Second and Third Legislative Assemblies had a strength of 176. The Fourth and Fifth Legislative Assembly comprised 184 members each. The strength became 200 from the Sixth Legislative Assembly onwards. The Fourteenth Legislative Assembly was commenced on 21 January 2013. Umed Singh of Barmer was youngest member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, as in 1962 election result was declared on 19 February 1962 and he was elected from Barmer, at the time he was just 25 year and 4 months old.

Party-wise Members in the 15th Assembly

On 24 October 2019, INC won Mandawa assembly constituency and RLP won Khinwsar assembly constituency in the bye polls held on 21.10.19 which took their tally to 101 & 3 respectively.