Payakaraopet (Assembly constituency)

Payakaraopet
Payakaraopet
Constituency for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Visakhapatnam
Total electors	240,285
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Golla Baburao
Party	YSR Congress Party

Payakaraopet Assembly constituency is an SC reserved constituency in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, representing the state legislative assembly in India.^[1] It is one of the seven assembly segments of Anakapalli (Lok Sabha constituency), along with Chodavaram, Madugula, Anakapalle, Yelamanchili and Pendurthi.^[2] Golla Baburao is the present MLA of the constituency, who won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from YSR Congress Party.^[3] As of 25 March 2019, there a total of 240,285 electors in the constituency.^[4]

Mandals[]

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

Year	Member
1952	Raja Sagi Suryanarayana Raju	Independent politician
1962	Mande Pitchaiah	Communist Party of India
1967	Gantlana Suryanarayana	Indian National Congress
1972	Gantlana Suryanarayana	Indian National Congress
1978	Maruthi Adeyya	Indian National Congress (I)
1983	Sumana Gantela	Telugu Desam Party
1985	Kakara Nookaraju	Telugu Desam Party
1989	Kakara Nookaraju	Telugu Desam Party
1994	Kakara Nookaraju	Telugu Desam Party
1999	Chengala Venkatarao	Telugu Desam Party
2004	Chengala Venkatarao	Telugu Desam Party
2009	Golla Baburao	Indian National Congress
2012 (By-Polls)	Golla Baburao	YSR Congress Party
2014	Anitha Vangalapudi	Telugu Desam Party
2019	Golla Baburao	YSR Congress Party

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Payakaraopeta^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Raja Sagi Suryanarayana Raju	9,757	30.78%
	INC	Sunkari Appala Naiudu	5,730	18.08%	18.08%
	KMPP	Raparti Jagannatha Rao	5,723	18.06%
	Socialist	Katha Radhakrihnamurthy	5,462	17.23%
	Independent	Mohammed Galab	2,548	8.04%
	Independent	Kasturi Subha Rao	1,265	3.99%
	Independent	M. Madhuramruta Rao	1,210	3.82%
Margin of victory			4,027	12.71%
Turnout			31,695	50.19%
Registered electors			63,155
	Independent win (new seat)

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Payakaraopet
Party		Votes	%	±%
	TDP	40,794	43.15	-8.73
	Independent	27,105	28.67
	INC	24,171	25.57	-17.85
Majority		13,689	14.48
Turnout		94,544	70.81	+5.44
	TDP hold	Swing

2009 Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections: Payakaraopet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Golla Baburao	50,698	32.11	+6.44
	TDP		50,042	31.69	-11.46
	PRP		49,264	31.20
Majority			656	0.42
Turnout			157,890	74.89	+4.08
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Payakaraopet
Party		Votes	%	±%
	TDP	86,355	48.02
	YSRCP	83,527	46.44
Majority		2,828	1.58
Turnout		179,843	80.69	+5.80
	TDP gain from INC	Swing

^ "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. 18, 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.
^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "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.