Vizianagaram (Assembly Constituency)
Vizianagaram Assembly constituency is a constituency in Vizianagaram 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 Vizianagaram Lok Sabha constituency.
Pusapati Aditi Vijayalakshmi 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 231,554 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).
Mandals
Vizianagaram mandal is the only mandal that forms a part of the constituency.
| Mandal |
|---|
| Vizianagaram |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
^By-Poll
Election results
1952
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist | Pusapati Vijayarama Gajapati Raju | 52,548 | 39.20% | ||
| Independent | Gudivada Appalaswamy | 16,120 | 12.03% | ||
| INC | Chinna Suryanarayana | 9,117 | 6.80% | 6.80% | |
| KMPP | Sakati Guruwala | 6,085 | 4.54% | ||
| Margin of victory | 2,377 | 1.77% | |||
| Turnout | 1,34,041 | 91.71% | |||
| Registered electors | 1,46,158 | ||||
| Socialist win (new seat) | |||||
1957 (By-poll)
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist | B. Sriramamurty | Unopposed | |||
| Margin of victory | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Socialist gain from PSP | Swing | ||||
2004
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Veera Bhadra Swamy Kolagatla | 47,444 | 40.60 | ||
| TDP | Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati | 46,318 | 39.64 | ||
| INC | Gurana Sadhu Rao | 19,861 | 17.00 | ||
| Majority | 1,126 | 0.96 | |||
| Turnout | 116,857 | 64.64 | -1.23 | ||
| Independent gain from TDP | Swing | ||||
2009
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati | 52,890 | 38.18 | ||
| INC | Veera Bhadra Swamy Kolagatla | 49,608 | 35.81 | - | |
| PRP | Geetha Meesala | 28,341 | 20.46 | ||
| Majority | 3,282 | 2.37 | |||
| Turnout | 138,543 | 64.74 | +0.10 | ||
| TDP gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Geetha Meesala | 77,320 | 49.82 | ||
| YSRCP | Veera Bhadra Swamy Kolagatla | 61,916 | 39.89 | ||
| Majority | 15,404 | 9.93 | |||
| Turnout | 155,206 | 71.87 | +7.13 | ||
| TDP hold | Swing | ||||
2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSRCP | Veera Bhadra Swamy Kolagatla | 78,849 | 47.96 | ||
| TDP | Aditi Vijayalakshmi Gajapathi Raju | 72,432 | 44.05 | ||
| JSP | Palavalasa Yasasvi | 7190 | 4.37 | ||
| Majority | 6,400 | 4 | -58.45 | ||
| Turnout | 1,62,623 | 70.09 | -2.54 | ||
| YSRCP gain from TDP | Swing | ||||
2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Aditi Vijayalakshmi Gajapathi Raju | 121,241 | 64.21 | +40.26 | |
| YSRCP | Kolagatla Veerabhadra Swamy | 60,632 | 32.11 | -23.10 | |
| Independent | Geetha Meesala | 2,054 | 1.09 | ||
| INC | Satish Kumar Sunkari | 1,527 | 0.81 | ||
| NOTA | None Of The Above | 1,365 | 0.72 | ||
| Majority | 60,609 | 32.10 | +847.02 | ||
| Turnout | 1,88,807 | 81.05 | +13.89 | ||
| TDP gain from YSRCP | Swing | ||||