1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

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{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

| elected_members =

| vote_type = Popular

| ongoing = no

| party_colour =

| party_name =

| alliance_name =

| previous_year = 1955 (Andhra)
←1952 (Hyderabad)

| outgoing_members =

| seat_change1 = new state

| seat_change2 = new state

| leaders_seat1 = Kurnool

| leaders_seat2 = Gannavaram

| seats_before1 =

| election_date = {{Start date|1957|02|25|df=yes}}

| next_election = 1962 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

| next_year = 1962

| seats_for_election = 105 (of 301) seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly

| majority_seats = 151

| opinion_polls =

| leader1 = Damodaram Sanjeevaiah

| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Damodaram Sanjivayya 2008 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|bSize=100|cWidth=80|cHeight=100|oLeft=10|oTop=03}}

| image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image=Sundaraiah-Puchalapalli.jpg|bSize=100|cWidth=80|cHeight=100|oLeft=05|oTop=0}}

| party1 = Indian National Congress

| last_election1 =

| type = legislative

| country = India

| seats1 = 187

| map_alt =

| map =

| title = Chief Minister

| before_election = Office Established New State

| before_party =

| posttitle = Chief Minister

| after_election = Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

| after_party = INC

| next_mps =

| seats_needed1 = 53

| Opinion_poll =

| leader2 = Puchalapalli Sundarayya

| party2 = PDF

| last_election2 =

| seats_before2 =

| seats_needed2 = 22

| seats2 = 37

| popular_vote1 = 1,707,364

| popular_vote2 = 927,333

| percentage1 = 47.38%

| percentage2 = 25.73%

}}

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.{{cite web |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_AP_1957.pdf |title= Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 : To the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh |publisher= Election Commission of India |access-date= July 11, 2015}} 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.p. 281, Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies (), Christophe Jaffrelot, Sanjay Kumar, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.