Salur (Assembly Constituency)
Salur is a Scheduled Tribe reserved constituency in Parvathipuram Manyam district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Araku Lok Sabha constituency.
Gummadi Sandhya Rani is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party. As of 2019, there are a total of 190,619 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).
Mandals
The four mandals that form the assembly constituency are:
| Mandal |
|---|
| Salur |
| Pachipenta |
| Mentada |
| Makkuva |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Kumisetti Venkatanarayana Dora | Krishikar Lok Party | |
| 1955 | Allu Yerukunaidu | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1962 | Lakshmi Narasimha Sanyasi Raju | Independent | |
| 1967 | B. Rajayya | ||
| 1972 | Mutyallu Janni | Indian National Congress | |
| 1978 | S. R. T. P. S. Veerapa Raju | Communist Party of India | |
| 1983 | B. Rajaiah | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 1985 | |||
| 1989 | Lakshmi Narasimha Sanyasi Raju | Indian National Congress | |
| 1994 | Rajendra Prathap Bhanj Deo | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 1999 | |||
| 2004 | |||
| 2009 | Rajanna Dora Peedika | Indian National Congress | |
| 2014 | YSR Congress Party | ||
| 2019 | |||
| 2024 | Gummadi Sandhya Rani | Telugu Desam Party | |
Election results
1952
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLP | Kumisetti Venkatanarayana Dora | 19,408 | 53.40% | ||
| INC | Alur Yorukumaiudu | 6,760 | 18.60% | 18.60% | |
| Socialist | Alaganji Ramamurthy | 6,231 | 17.14% | ||
| Independent | Kottakki Chiranjividas | 3,944 | 10.85% | ||
| Margin of victory | 12,648 | 34.80% | |||
| Turnout | 36,343 | 46.85% | |||
| Registered electors | 77,570 | ||||
| KLP win (new seat) | |||||
2004
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | R. P. Bhanj Deo | 48,580 | 51.32 | −6.86 | |
| INC | Rajanna Dora Peedika | 46,087 | 48.68 | +8.45 | |
| Majority | 2,493 | 2.64 | |||
| Turnout | 94,667 | 74.64 | +2.52 | ||
| TDP hold | Swing | ||||
2009
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Rajanna Dora Peedika | 49,517 | 40.94 | −7.74 | |
| TDP | Gummadi Sandhya Rani | 47,861 | 39.57 | −11.75 | |
| PRP | Hanumantha Rao T.V. | 13,479 | 11.14 | ||
| Majority | 1,656 | 1.37 | |||
| Turnout | 121,002 | 71.57 | −3.07 | ||
| INC gain from TDP | Swing | ||||
2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSRCP | Rajanna Dora Peedika | 63,755 | 47.28 | ||
| TDP | Rajendra Pratap Bhanj Deo | 58,758 | 43.57 | ||
| Majority | 4,997 | 3.71 | |||
| Turnout | 134,857 | 77.04 | +5.47 | ||
| YSRCP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSRCP | Rajanna Dora Peedika | 78,430 | |||
| TDP | R.P. Bhanj Deo | 58,401 | |||
| Majority | 20,029 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| YSRCP hold | Swing | ||||
2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Gummadi Sandhya Rani | 80,211 | 50.65 | ||
| YSRCP | Rajanna Dora Peedika | 66,478 | 41.98 | ||
| INC | Muvvala Pushpa Rao | 2,239 | 1.41 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 5,743 | 3.63 | ||
| Majority | 13,733 | 8.67 | |||
| Turnout | 1,58,355 | ||||
| TDP gain from YSRCP | Swing | ||||
See also
References
- ^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. 17 December 2018. pp. 17, 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Assembly Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.