Kandukur (Assembly constituency)

Kandukur
Kandukur
Constituency of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Prakasam
Reservation	No

Kandukur Assembly constituency is a constituency of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is one of twelve constituencies in the Prakasham district.^[1]

It is part of the Nellore Lok Sabha constituency along with another six Vidhan Sabha segments: Kavali, Atmakur, Kovuru, Nellore City, Nellore Rural and Udayagiri in the Nellore district.

The constituency covers 5 Mandals including Municipality(Town) Gudluru, Lingasamudram, Kandukur, Ulavapadu, Voletivaripalem and .

Town[]

Kandukur Municipality[]

Kandukur Municipality. The Kandukur city is divided into 22 wards, total administration over 13,934 houses for which elections are held every 5 years. The Kandukur Municipality has population of 57,246 of which 28,644 are males while 28,602 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.

Mandals[]

The five mandals that forms the assembly constituency are:^[2]

Mandal
Lingasamudram
Voletivaripalem
Kandukur
Gudluru
Ulavapadu

Members of Legislative Assembly[]

Duration	Name of M.L.A.	Party
1955-1962	Divi Kondaiah Chowdary	Indian National Congress
1962-1967	NALAMOTHU CHANCHURAMA NAIDU	Indian National Congress
1967-1972	NALAMOTHU CHANCHURAMA NAIDU	Indian National Congress
1972-1978	M. AUDINARAYANA REDDY	Indian National Congress
1978-1983	DIVI KONDAIAH CHOWDARY	Indian National Congress
1983-1985	M. AUDINARAYANA REDDY	Independent
1985-1989	M. AUDINARAYANA REDDY	Indian National Congress
1989-1994	MANUGUNTA MAHEEDHAR REDDY	Indian National Congress
1994-1999	DIVI SIVARAM	Telugu Desam Party
1999-2004	DIVI SIVARAM	Telugu Desam Party
2004-2009	MANUGUNTA MAHEEDHAR REDDY	Indian National Congress
2009-2014	MANUGUNTA MAHEEDHAR REDDY	Indian National Congress
2014-2019	POTULA RAMARAO	YSR Congress
2019-	MANUGUNTA MAHEEDHAR REDDY	YSR Congress

Election results[]

Assembly Elections 1955[]

1955 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes
INC	Divi Kondaiah Chowdary	21,506
CPI	Ravi Pati Vankaiah	14,409
INC gain from CPI		Swing

Assembly Elections 1962[]

1962 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes
INC	N. Chenchu Rama Naidu	23,905
SWA	Divi Kondaiah Chowdary	22,233
INC gain from SWA		Swing

Assembly Elections 1967[]

1967 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes
INC	N. Chenchu Rama Naidu	34,927
SWA	V.Y.K.Reddy	29,015
INC gain from SWA		Swing

Assembly Elections 1972[]

1972 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	M. Audinarayana Reddy	36892
INC	N. Chenchu Rama Naidu	31,459
Independent gain from INC		Swing

Assembly Elections 1978[]

1978 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes	%
INC	Divi Kondaiah Chowdary	35,361
JP	Audinarayana Reddy Manugunta	23,056
Independent	BATTARUSETTY KONDAIAH	9,571	12.64%
INC	ANGIREKULA VENKATESWARA RAO	5862	7.74%
INC gain from JP		Swing

Assembly Elections 1983[]

1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes	%
Independent	Adinarayana Reddy Manugunta	29,134	37.29%
TDP	Venkatasubbaiah Gutha	26,293	33.65%
INC	KONDAIAH CHOWDARY DIVI	22,704	29.06%
INC gain from TDP		Swing

Assembly Elections 1985[]

1985 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes
INC	Audinarayanareddy Manugunta	45,765
TDP	Venkatasubbaiah Gutta	44,480
INC gain from TDP		Swing

Assembly Elections 1989[]

1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes
INC	Manugunta Maheedhar Reddy	56,626
TDP	Moruboyina Malakondaiah	46,428
INC gain from TDP		Swing

Assembly Elections 1994[]

1994 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes	%
TDP	Divi Sivaram	52,376	48.54%
Independent	Maheedhar reddy	46,351	42.95%
INC	BHATTARUSETTY KONDAIAH	5916	5.48
BSP	MATLE VENKATASUBBAIAH	2151	1.99
TDP gain from Independent		Swing

Assembly Elections 1999[]

1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
	Candidate	Votes	%
TDP	Divi Sivaram	63,964	50.47%
INC	Maheedhar reddy	62,439	49.26%
TDP gain from INC		Swing

Assembly Elections 2004[]

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kandukur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manugunta Maheedhar Reddy	67,207	52.56	+3.30
	TDP	Divi Sivaram	59,328	46.40	-4.07
Majority			7,879	6.16
Turnout			127,870	83.36	+11.66
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

Assembly Elections 2009[]

2009 Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections: Kandukur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manugunta Maheedhar Reddy	74,553	48.22	-4.34
	TDP	Divi Sivaram	70,310	45.47	-0.93
	PRP	Vallepu Raghavulu	5,885	3.81
Majority			4,243	2.75
Turnout			154,613	83.52	+0.16
	INC hold		Swing

Assembly elections 2014[]

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2014: Kandukur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Pothula Ramarao	84,538	48.83
	TDP	Divi Sivaram	80,732	46.64
	BSP	EKULA VENKATESWARLU	4572	2.64
Majority			3,806	2.19
Turnout			173,113	88.95	+15.43
	YSR Congress gain from INC

Assembly Elections 2019[]

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2019: Kandukur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	TDP	POTHULA RAMARAO	86339	44.07%
	YSRCP	MANUGUNTA MAHEEDHAR REDDY	101275	51.69%
	Jana Sena	Puli Mallikarjuna Rao	2322	1.19%
Majority			14936
Turnout
	YSRCP hold		Swing

List of constituencies of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly

References[]

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Vizianagaram	11 Kurupam (ST) Pushpasreevani Pamula 12 Parvathipuram (SC) 13 Salur (ST) 14 Bobbili 15 Cheepurupalli Botsa Satyanarayana 16 Gajapathinagaram 17 Nellimarla 18 Vizianagaram Veera Bhadra Swamy Kolagatla 19 Srungavarapukota
Visakhapatnam	20 Bhimili Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao 21 Visakhapatnam East 22 Visakhapatnam South 23 Visakhapatnam North Ganta Srinivasa Rao 24 Visakhapatnam West 25 Gajuwaka 26 Chodavaram 27 Madugula 28 Araku Valley (ST) 29 Paderu (ST) 30 Anakapalle Avss Amarnath Gudivada 31 Pendurthi 32 Yelamanchili 33 Payakaraopet (SC) Golla Baburao 34 Narsipatnam Petla Uma Sankara Ganesh
East Godavari	35 Tuni Dadisetti Raja 36 Prathipadu 37 Pithapuram Dorababu Pendem 38 Kakinada Rural Kurasala Kannababu 39 Peddapuram Nimmakayala Chinarajappa 40 Anaparthy 41 Kakinada City 42 Ramachandrapuram 43 Mummidivaram 44 Amalapuram (SC) Pinipe Viswarup 45 Razole (SC) Rapaka Vara Prasada Rao 46 Gannavaram (SC) 47 Kothapeta 48 Mandapeta 49 Rajanagaram 50 Rajahmundry City 51 Rajahmundry Rural Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary 52 Jaggampeta 53 Rampachodavaram (ST)
West Godavari	54 Kovvur(SC) Taneti Vanitha 55 Nidadavole 56 Achanta Cherukuvada Sri Ranganadha Raju 57 Palakollu Nimmala Rama Naidu 58 Narasapuram 59 Bhimavaram Grandhi Srinivas 60 Undi 61 Tanuku Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao 62 Tadepalligudem 63 Unguturu 64 Denduluru 65 Eluru Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas 66 Gopalapuram (SC) 67 Polavaram (ST) Tellam Balaraju 68 Chintalapudi (SC)
Krishna	69 Tiruvuru (SC) 70 Nuzvid 71 Gannavaram 72 Gudivada Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao 73 Kaikalur 74 Pedana 75 Machilipatnam Perni Venkataramaiah 76 Avanigadda 77 Pamarru (SC) 78 Penamaluru Kolusu Parthasarathy 79 Vijayawada West Vellampalli Srinivas 80 Vijayawada Central Malladi Vishnu 81 Vijayawada East Gadde Ramamohan 82 Mylavaram 83 Nandigama (SC) 84 Jaggayyapeta
Guntur	85 Pedakurapadu 86 Tadikonda (SC) 87 Mangalagiri Alla Ramakrishna Reddy 88 Ponnuru 89 Vemuru (SC) Merugu Nagarjuna 90 Repalle Anagani Satya Prasad 91 Tenali 92 Bapatla Kona Raghupathi 93 Prathipadu (SC) Mekathoti Sucharita 94 Guntur West 95 Guntur East Mohammad Musthafa Shaik 96 Chilakaluripet Vidadala Rajini 97 Narasaraopet 98 Sattenapalle 99 Vinukonda 100 Gurajala 101 Macherla
Prakasam	102 Yerragondapalem (SC) Audimulapu Suresh 103 Darsi 104 Parchur Yeluri Sambasiva Rao 105 Addanki 106 Chirala Karanam Balaram Krishna Murthy 107 Santhanuthalapadu (SC) 108 Ongole Balineni Srinivasa Reddy 109 Kandukur 110 Kondapi (SC) 111 Markapuram 112 Giddalur Anna Rambabu 113 Kanigiri
Nellore	114 Kavali 115 Atmakur Mekapati Goutham Reddy 116 Kovur 117 Nellore City Anil Kumar Poluboina 118 Nellore Rural Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy 119 Sarvepalli Kakani Govardhan Reddy 120 Gudur (SC) Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli 121 Sullurpeta (SC) 122 Venkatagiri Anam Ramanarayana Reddy 123 Udayagiri
Kadapa	124 Badvel (SC) Vacant 125 Rajampet 126 Kadapa Amzath Basha Shaik Bepari 127 Kodur (SC) 128 Rayachoti Gadikota Srikanth Reddy 129 Pulivendla Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy 130 Kamalapuram 131 Jammalamadugu 132 Proddatur 133 Mydukur
Kurnool	134 Allagadda 135 Srisailam 136 Nandikotkur (SC) 137 Kurnool Abdul Hafeez Khan 138 Panyam 139 Nandyal 140 Banaganapalle 141 Dhone Buggana Rajendranath 142 Pattikonda Kangati Sreedevi 143 Kodumur (SC) 144 Yemmiganur 145 Mantralayam 146 Adoni 147 Alur Gummanur Jayaram
Anantapur	148 Rayadurg 149 Uravakonda Payyavula Keshav 150 Guntakal 151 Tadipatri 152 Singanamala (SC) 153 Anantapur Urban Anantha Venkatarami Reddy 154 Kalyandurg K. V. Ushashri Charan 155 Raptadu 156 Madakasira (SC) M. Thippeswamy 157 Hindupur Nandamuri Balakrishna 158 Penukonda Malagundla Sankaranarayana 159 Puttaparthi 160 Dharmavaram 161 Kadiri
Chittoor	162 Thamballapalle 163 Pileru 164 Madanapalle 165 Punganur 166 Chandragiri Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy 167 Tirupati 168 Srikalahasti 169 Sathyavedu 170 Nagari R. K. Roja 171 Gangadhara Nellore (SC) K. Narayana Swamy 172 Chittoor 173 Puthalapattu (SC) 174 Palamaner 175 Kuppam N. Chandrababu Naidu
Defunct	Allur Anantaptur Bhogapuram Harishchandrapuram Kothuru (ST) Naguru (ST) Puttur Rapur Sathivada Sompeta Therlam Uttarapalli Visakhapatnam-I Vunukuru