Visakhapatnam South Assembly Constituency
Visakhapatnam South Assembly constituency 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.
Vamsi Krishna Srinivas is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Janasena Party. As of 2019, there were a total of 209,186 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 2008, as per the Delimitation Orders (2008).
Mandals
The mandal and wards that form the assembly constituency are:
Mandal |
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Visakhapatnam (Urban) Mandal (Part) Visakhapatnam (M.Corp) Ward No. 12 to 34, 42 to 43 and 46 to 48 |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Year | Member | Political party | |
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2009 | Dronamraju Srinvasa Rao | Indian National Congress | |
2014 | Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar | Telugu Desam Party | |
2019 | |||
2024 | Vamsi Krishna Srinivas | Janasena Party |
Election results
2009
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao | 45,971 | 35.66 | ||
PRP | Kola Guruvulu | 45,630 | 35.40 | ||
TDP | Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar | 24,208 | 18.78 | ||
BJP | Challa Mahalakshmi | 2,128 | 1.65 | ||
Majority | 341 | 0.26 | |||
Turnout | 128,907 | 73.84 | |||
INC win (new seat) |
2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TDP | Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar | 66,686 | 51.45 | ||
YSRCP | Kola Guruvulu | 48,370 | 37.32 | ||
Majority | 18,316 | 14.13 | |||
Turnout | 129,613 | 65.65 | −8.19 | ||
TDP gain from INC | Swing |
2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TDP | Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar | 52,172 | 41.50 | ||
YSRCP | Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao | 48,443 | 38.54 | ||
JSP | Gampala Giridhar | 18,119 | 14.41 | ||
Majority | 3,729 | 2.96 | |||
Turnout | |||||
TDP hold | Swing |
2024
Party | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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JSP | Vamsi Krishna Srinivas | 97,868 | 70.23 | ||
YSRCP | Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar | 33,274 | 23.87 | ||
NOTA | None Of The Above | 631 | 0.45 | ||
Majority | 64,594 | 46.36 | |||
Turnout | 139339 | 64.27 | |||
JSP 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. 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.
- ^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.