Amalapuram Assembly constituency

Amalapuram
Amalapuram
Constituency No. 44 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Location of Amalapuram Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Konaseema
LS constituency	Amalapuram
Established	1951
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Aithabathula Anandarao
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

Amalapuram is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency in Konaseema district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India.^[1] It is one of the seven assembly segments of Amalapuram Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Aithabathula Anandarao is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party.^[3]^{[needs update]} The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).

Mandals

The three mandals that form the assembly constituency are:^[2]

Mandal
Uppalaguptam
Allavaram
Amalapuram

Members of the Legislative Assembly

As part of Madras Presidency (until 1953)

Year	Member
1937	Kala Venkata Rao^[4]	Indian National Congress
1946	Kala Venkata Rao	Indian National Congress
1952	Nadimpalli Ramabhadra Raju	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party

As part of Andhra State (1953-1956)

Year	Member	Political party
1955^{[note 1]}	Golkoti Narasimha Murty		Independent politician

As part of United Andhra Pradesh (1956-2014)

Year	Member
1962	Kudupudi Satyanarayana	Independent politician
1965	Nadimpalli Ramabhadra Raju^[6]	Indian National Congress
1967	Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao	Independent politician
1972	Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao	Indian National Congress
1978	Venkata Sri Rama Rao Palacholla	Janata Party
1983	Metla Satyanarayana Rao	Independent politician^{[note 2]}
1985	Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao	Indian National Congress
1989	Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao	Indian National Congress
1994	Metla Satyanarayana Rao	Telugu Desam Party
1999	Metla Satyanarayana Rao	Telugu Desam Party
2004	Chittabbai Kudupudi	Independent politician
2009	Pinipe Viswarup	Indian National Congress

As part of Andhra Pradesh (since 2014-)

Year	Member
2014	Aithabathula Anandarao	Telugu Desam Party
2019	Pinipe Viswarup	YSR Congress Party
2024	Aithabathula Anandarao	Telugu Desam Party

Election results

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KMPP	Nadimpalli Ramabhadra Raju	80,180	36.52%	{{{change}}}
	SCF	Bojja Appalaswami	66,742	30.40%
	INC	Kala Venkata Rao	27,218	12.40%
	INC	Pandu Lakshmanaswami	23,847	10.86%
	Socialist	Aramate Paideswara Rao	21,592	9.83%
Margin of victory			13,438	6.12%	{{{change}}}
Turnout			2,19,579	133.71%	{{{change}}}
Registered electors			1,64,215
	KMPP win (new seat)

1955

(Two seats: One reserved for general and other one for SC.)

1955 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram^[8]
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	Golkoti Narasimha Murty	30,858
CPI(M)	Guttula Narayandas	26,165
KSP	Kudupudi Satyanarayana	25,856
Independent	Bojja Appala Swamy	22,657
CPI(M)	Sarella Rama Rao	19,575
Independent	Chikile Gangisetti	17,266
Independent gain from KMPP		Swing

1962

1962 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	Kudupudi Suryanarayana	23,581
INC	Nadimpalli Venkatapathi	20,820
Independent gain from INC		Swing

1965 by-election

1965 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
INC	N.R.Raju	25,166
Independent	K.Venkataratnam	20,235
INC gain from Independent		Swing

1967

1967 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	K. P. Rao	25,383
INC	N. R. Raju	22,091
Independent gain from INC		Swing

1972

1972 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
INC	Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao	35,048
Independent	Ravanam Ramachendra Rao	25,398
INC gain from Independent		Swing

1978 Venkata Sri Rama Rao Palacholla

1983

1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	Satyanarayana Rao	41,283
INC	Prabhakarrao Kudupudi	32,354
Independent gain from INC		Swing

1985

1985 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
INC	Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao	41,296
TDP	Ravanam Ramachandra Rao	33,826
INC gain from TDP		Swing

1989

1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
INC	Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao	45,863
TDP	Metla Satyanarayana Rao	41,590
INC gain from TDP		Swing

1994

1994 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
TDP	Dr. Metla Satyanarayana Rao	52,926
INC	Kudupudi Prabhakararao	36,112
TDP gain from INC		Swing

1999

1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
	Candidate	Votes
TDP	Metla Satyanarayana Rao	53,246
INC	Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao	34,466
TDP hold		Swing

2004

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Chittabbai Kudupudi	31,858	33.35	+11.00
	TDP	Metla Satyanarayana Rao	27,818	29.12	−28.98
	INC	Tadi Tatarao	24,777	25.93	−11.68
Majority			4,040	4.23
Turnout			95,535	77.54	+3.62
	Independent gain from TDP		Swing

2009

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Pinipe Viswarup	57,922	41.96	+16.03
	PRP	Chinta Krishnamurthy	51,649	37.41
	TDP	Aithabathula Anandarao	23,185	16.79	−12.33
Majority			6,273	4.55
Turnout			138,056	79.71	+2.17
	INC gain from Independent		Swing

2014

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Aithabathula Anandarao	76,444	50.99
	YSRCP	Babu Rao Golla	64,031	42.71
Majority			12,413	8.28
Turnout			149,928	78.32	−1.39
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	YSRCP	Pinipe Viswarup	72,003	42.51%
	TDP	Aithabathula Anandarao	46,349	27.36%
	JSP	Shetty Battula Rajababu	45,200	26.69%
Majority			25,654	15.15%
Turnout			169,382
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

2024

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	TDP	Aithabathula Anandarao	104,022	58.56
	YSRCP	Pinipe Viswarup	65,394	36.81
	INC	Aithabathula Subhashini	1357	0.76
	Independent	Dantuluri	11	0.1
Majority			38628	21.74
Turnout			177636
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

References

^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. 17 December 2018. pp. 19, 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Assembly Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ p. 289, The Who's who in Madras, Issue 9, Pearl Press, 1937.
^ Jaffrelot, Christophe; Kumar, Sanjay (2012). Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies. Routledge. p. 281. ISBN 9781136516610. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^ "Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers: East Godavari". books.google.com. Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press. 1979. p. 423. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^ "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.
^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1955 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ANDHRA PRADESH" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

Notes

^ The members of the first assembly of Andhra Pradesh who were elected from the 1955 election in the Andhra state were allowed a seven-year term. That is to say in 1957, elections were conducted in the newly added region of Telangana alone and then in 1962 general elections were held for the state as a whole.^[5]
^ Contested on behalf of Telugu Desam Party

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[1] "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

[constituencies-2] "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. 17 December 2018. pp. 19, 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

[3] "Assembly Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

[4] . 289, The Who's who in Madras, Issue 9, Pearl Press, 1937.

[5] Jaffrelot, Christophe; Kumar, Sanjay (2012). Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies. Routledge. p. 281. ISBN 9781136516610. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

[7] "Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers: East Godavari". books.google.com. Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press. 1979. p. 423. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

[9] "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.

[10] "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1955 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ANDHRA PRADESH" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

[6] The members of the first assembly of Andhra Pradesh who were elected from the 1955 election in the Andhra state were allowed a seven-year term. That is to say in 1957, elections were conducted in the newly added region of Telangana alone and then in 1962 general elections were held for the state as a whole.^[5]

[8] Contested on behalf of Telugu Desam Party

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