Visakhapatnam North Assembly Constituency
Visakhapatnam North is a constituency in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of the Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency.
The MLA position of the constituency lies vacant now since the resignation of the MLA, Ganta Srinivasa Rao has been accepted by the Speaker of the state's Legislative Assembly. As of 2019, there are a total of 280,151 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 2008, as per the Delimitation Orders (2008).
Mandal
The mandal and wards that forms the assembly constituency are:
Mandal |
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Visakhapatnam (Urban) Mandal (Part) Visakhapatnam (M.Corp) Ward No. 36 to 41, 44 to 45 and 49 to 52 |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Year | Member | Party | |
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Till 2009 : Constituency did not exist
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2009 | Vijaya Kumar Thynala | Indian National Congress | |
2014 | Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2019 | Ganta Srinivasa Rao | Telugu Desam Party | |
2024 | Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Election results
2009
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Vijaya Kumar Thynala | 49,344 | 34.59 | ||
PRP | Dr. Shirin Rahman Shaik | 43,821 | 30.72 | ||
TDP | Bharanikana Jaya | 26,990 | 18.92 | ||
Majority | 5,523 | 3.87 | |||
Turnout | 142,643 | 67.81 | |||
INC win (new seat) |
2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju | 82,079 | 51.34 | ||
YSRCP | Chokkakula Venkata Rao | 63,839 | 39.93 | ||
Majority | 18,240 | 11.41 | |||
Turnout | 159,862 | 59.97 | −7.84 | ||
BJP gain from INC | Swing |
2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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TDP | Ganta Srinivasa Rao | 67,352 | 38.09 | ||
YSRCP | Kammula Kannaparaju | 65,408 | 36.99 | ||
JSP | Pasupuleti Ushakiran | 19,139 | 10.82 | ||
BJP | Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju | 18,790 | 10.63 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 1,411 | 0.80 | ||
Majority | 1,944 | 1.10 | |||
Turnout | |||||
TDP gain from BJP | Swing |
2024
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju | 108,801 | 57.81 | +47.18 | |
YSRCP | Kammula Kannaparaju | 61,267 | 32.55 | −4.44 | |
NOTA | None Of The Above | 1,130 | 0.60 | −0.20 | |
Majority | 47,534 | ||||
Turnout | 1,88,208 | ||||
NDA hold | Swing |