Srikakulam (Assembly Constituency)
Srikakulam Assembly constituency is a constituency in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency.
Gondu Shankar Rao 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 255,177 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).
Mandals
The two mandals that form the assembly constituency are:
| Mandals |
|---|
| Srikakulam |
| Gara |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Killi Appala Naidu | Krishikar Lok Party | |
| 1955 | Pasagada Suryanarayana | Independent politician | |
| 1962 | Andhavarapu Thavitiah | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | Tangi Satyanarayana | Swatantra Party | |
| 1972 | Challa Lakshminarayana | Independent | |
| 1978 | Janata Party | ||
| 1983 | Tangi Satyanarayana | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 1985 | Appala Suryanarayana Gunda | ||
| 1989 | |||
| 1994 | |||
| 1999 | |||
| 2004 | Dharmana Prasada Rao | Indian National Congress | |
| 2009 | |||
| 2014 | Gunda Lakshmi Devi | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 2019 | Dharmana Prasada Rao | YSR Congress Party | |
| 2024 | Gondu Shankar | Telugu Desam Party | |
Election results
1952
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLP | Killi Appala Naidu | 17,668 | 15.55% | ||
| KLP | Kavali Narayana | 16,244 | 14.30% | ||
| INC | Kottapalli Narasayya | 16,222 | 14.28% | 14.28% | |
| INC | Thammineni Paparao | 15,028 | 13.23% | 13.23% | |
| Independent | Gundu Surya Naidu | 12,210 | 10.75% | ||
| Independent | Nadimpalli Lingaraju | 10,960 | 9.65% | ||
| Socialist | Lolugu Sreeramulu Naiudu | 9,453 | 8.32% | ||
| Independent | Muddada Gurayya | 6,524 | 5.74% | ||
| Independent | S. P. S. Appalacharyulu | 4,781 | 4.21% | ||
| Independent | Ruppa Appalaswamy | 4,542 | 4.00% | ||
| Margin of victory | 1,424 | 1.25% | |||
| Turnout | 1,13,632 | 80.72% | |||
| Registered electors | 1,40,781 | ||||
| win (new seat) | |||||
2004
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Dharmana Prasada Rao | 69,168 | 52.8 |  9.3
| |
| TDP | Appala Suryanarayana Gunda | 61,941 | 47.2 |  6.4
| |
| Majority | 7,227 | 5.5 | 4.4
| ||
| Turnout | 1,30,763 | 71.1 | 4.5
| ||
| INC gain from TDP | Swing | 7.84
|
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2009
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Dharmana Prasada Rao | 56,457 | 38.8 | 14.0
| |
| TDP | Appala Suryanarayana Gunda | 51,987 | 35.8 | 11.4
| |
| PRP | Kornu Nagarjun | 28,553 | 19.6 | New | |
| Majority | 4,470 | 3.1 | 2.4
| ||
| Turnout | 1,45,380 | 74.4 | 3.3
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | 1.3
|
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2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Gunda Lakshmi Devi | 88,814 | 54.3 | 18.5
| |
| YSRCP | Dharmana Prasada Rao | 64,683 | 39.5 | New | |
| INC | Chowdari Satish | 3,683 | 2.3 | 36.5
| |
| Majority | 24,131 | 14.7 | 11.6
| ||
| Turnout | 1,64,523 | 72.2 | 2.2
| ||
| TDP gain from INC | Swing | 27.5
|
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2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSRCP | Dharmana Prasada Rao | 84,084 | 48.3 | 8.8
| |
| TDP | Gunda Lakshmi Devi | 78,307 | 45.0 | 9.3
| |
| JSP | Korada Sarveswara Rao | 7,557 | 4.3 | New | |
| INC | Chowdari Satish | 1,827 | 1.1 | 1.2
| |
| BJP | Challa Venkateswara Rao | 1,340 | 0.8 | New | |
| Majority | 5,777 | 3.3 | 11.4
| ||
| Turnout | 1,74,215 | 69.2 | 3.0
| ||
| YSRCP gain from TDP | Swing | 9.05
|
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2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Gondu Shankar | 117,091 | 60.93 | ||
| YSRCP | Dharmana Prasada Rao | 64,570 | 33.6 | ||
| INC | Ambati Krishna Rao | 4,353 | 2.27 | ||
| NOTA | None Of The Above | 3,373 | 1.76 | ||
| Majority | 52,521 | 27.33 | |||
| Turnout | 1,92,168 | ||||
| TDP gain from YSRCP | Swing | ||||
See also
References
- ^ "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. 16, 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election Results 2024 Highlights: TDP's Gondu Shankar with 117091 defeats YSRCP's Dharmana Prasada Rao". India Today. 4 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. 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.