Amalapuram
Constituency No. 44 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Location of Amalapuram Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateAndhra Pradesh
DistrictKonaseema
LS constituencyAmalapuram
Established1951
ReservationSC
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Viswarupu Pinipe
Party  YSRCP
Elected year2019

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 the Amalapuram Lok Sabha constituency.[2]

Viswarupu Pinipe is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from YSR Congress Party.[3] As of 2019, there are a total of 229,431 electors in the constituency.[4] 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 Political party
1937 Kala Venkata Rao[5] 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 Andhra Pradesh (since 1956)

Year Member Political party
1962 Kudupudi Satyanarayana[†] Independent politician
1965[‡] Nadimpalli Ramabhadra Raju[7] 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
2014 Aithabathula Anandarao Telugu Desam Party
2019 Pinipe Viswarup[§] YSR Congress Party

Election results

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
KMPP Nadimpalli Ramabhadra Raju 80,180 36.52%
SCF Bojja Appalaswami 66,742 30.40%
INC Kala Venkata Rao 27,218 12.40% 12.40%
INC Pandu Lakshmanaswami 23,847 10.86% 10.86%
Socialist Aramate Paideswara Rao 21,592 9.83%
Margin of victory 13,438 6.12%
Turnout 2,19,579 133.71%
Registered electors 1,64,215
KMPP win (new seat)
SCF win (new seat)

1955

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

1955 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram[9]
Party 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 17266
Independent gain from KMPP Swing
Independent gain from SCF Swing

1962

1962 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Kudupudi Suryanarayana 23,581
INC Nadimpalli Venkatapathi 20820
Independent gain from INC Swing

1965 (By-poll)

1965 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC N.R.Raju 25,166
Independent K.Venkataratnam 20235
INC gain from Independent Swing

1967

1967 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent K. P. Rao 25,383
INC N. R. Raju 22091
Independent gain from INC Swing

1972

1972 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao 35,048
Independent Ravanam Ramachendra Rao 25398
INC gain from Independent Swing

1983

1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Satyanarayana Rao 41,283
INC Prabhakarrao Kudupudi 32354
Independent gain from INC Swing

1985

1985 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao 41,296
TDP Ravanam Ramachandra Rao 33826
INC gain from TDP Swing

1989

1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao 45,863
TDP Metla Satyanarayana Rao 41590
INC gain from TDP Swing

1994

1994 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TDP Dr. Metla Satyanarayana Rao 52,926
INC Kudupudi Prabhakararao 36112
TDP gain from INC Swing

1999

1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TDP Metla Satyanarayana Rao 53,246
INC Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao 34466
TDP gain from INC 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 Viswarupu 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 YSRCP Swing

2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
YSRCP Pinipe Viswarupu 72,003 42.51%
TDP Aithabathula Anandarao 46,349 27.36%
JSP Shetty Battula Rajababu 45,200 26.69%
Majority 25654 15.15%
Turnout 169382
YSRCP gain from TDP Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  2. 1 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. ↑ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  5. ↑ p. 289, The Who's who in Madras, Issue 9, Pearl Press, 1937.
  6. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "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.
  9. ↑ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1955 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ANDHRA PRADESH" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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.[6]
  2. ↑ Contested on behalf of Telugu Desam Party

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