Tekkali (Assembly Constituency)
Tekkali 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.
Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora was the first MLA from the constituency. Kinjarapu Atchannaidu 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 222,222 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.
| Mandals |
|---|
| Nandigam |
| Tekkali |
| Santha Bommali |
| Kotabommali |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora | Independent | |
| 1955 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1962 | Ronanki Satyanarayana | Swatantra Party | |
| 1967 | N. Ramulu | ||
| 1972 | Sattaru Lokanadham Naidu | Indian National Congress | |
| 1978 | Bammaidi Narayanaswami | Janata Party | |
| 1983 | Attada Janardhana Rao | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 1985 | Saroja Varada | ||
| 1989 | Duvvada Nagavali | ||
| 1994 | N. T. Rama Rao | ||
| 1995 by-election | Appayya Dora Hanumanthu | ||
| 1999 | Korla Revatipathi | ||
| 2004 | Appayya Dora Hanumanthu | Indian National Congress | |
| 2009 | Korla Revatipathi | ||
| 2009 by-election | Korla Bharathi | ||
| 2014 | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 2019 | |||
| 2024 | |||
Election results
2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | 107,923 | 55.71 | ||
| YSRCP | Duvvada Srinivas | 73,488 | 37.94 | ||
| INC | Killi Krupa Rani | 2,684 | 1.39 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 7,342 | 3.79 | ||
| Majority | 34,435 | 17.77 | |||
| Turnout | 1,93,713 | ||||
| TDP hold | Swing | ||||
2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | 87,658 | 50.5 |  0.4
| |
| YSRCP | Perada Tilak | 79,113 | 45.6 | 0.07
| |
| JSP | Kaniti Kiran Kumar | 2810 | 2 | New | |
| INC | Chintada Dileep Kumar | 1743 | 1.0 | 0.2
| |
| Majority | 8,545 | 4.9 | 0.3
| ||
| Turnout | 1,73,648 | 78.5 |  0.1
| ||
| TDP hold | Swing | 0.17
|
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2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | 81,167 | 50.9 | 17.5
| |
| YSRCP | Duvvada Srinivas | 72,780 | 45.67 | New | |
| BSP | Lasa Someswara Rao | 2,137 | 1.3 | New | |
| INC | Killi Rammohana Rao | 1,849 | 1.2 | 33.6
| |
| Majority | 8,387 | 5.2 | 3.8
| ||
| Turnout | 160,394 | 78.4 | 2.4
| ||
| TDP gain from INC | Swing | 25.5
|
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2009
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Dr. Revatipathi Korla | 47,513 | 34.8 | 12.9
| |
| TDP | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | 45,620 | 33.4 | 2.3
| |
| PRP | Duvvada Srinivas | 36,552 | 26.8 | New | |
| Majority | 1,893 | 1.4 | 15.3
| ||
| Turnout | 136,450 | 76.0 | 3.0
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | 7.6
|
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2004
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | A. D. Hanumanthu | 49,480 | 47.7 | 2.1
| |
| TDP | L. L. Naidu | 32,209 | 31.1 | 21.0
| |
| Majority | 17,271 | 16.7 | 10.4
| ||
| Turnout | 1,03,491 | 73.0 | 6.7
| ||
| INC gain from TDP | Swing | 11.55
|
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1952
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora | 9,113 | 27.85% | ||
| INC | Bandi Kurmanna | 8,628 | 26.37% | 26.37% | |
| KLP | Attada Krishnamurthi | 6,795 | 20.77% | ||
| CPI | Bandalam Gavrayya | 5,341 | 16.32% | ||
| KMPP | Prabas Chandra Sathapathi | 2,840 | 8.68% | ||
| Margin of victory | 485 | 1.48% | |||
| Turnout | 32,717 | 53.46% | |||
| Registered electors | 61,196 | ||||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
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.
- ^ "Assembly Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Tekkali Assembly Election Results 2019 Live: Tekkali Constituency (Seat) Election Results, Live News". News18. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ "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.