Amalapuram (SC) (Assembly constituency)

Amalapuram (SC) (Assembly constituency) is an SC reserved constituency in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, representing the state legislative assembly in India.[1] It is one of the seven assembly segments of Amalapuram Lok Sabha constituency, along with Ramachandrapuram, Mummidivaram, Razole, Gannavaram, Kothapeta, and Mandapeta.[2] Viswarupu Pinipe 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 229,431 electors in the constituency.[4]

Amalapuram (SC)
Constituency
DistrictEast Godavari
StateAndhra Pradesh
Current constituency
PartyYSR Congress Party
MLAViswarupu Pinipe
ReservationGeneral

Before formation of Andhra state in 1953, this constituency was part of Madras presidency and had two seats; one for general and other one reserved.

Mandals

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

No Mandal Name
1 Uppalaguptam
2 Allavaram
3 Amalapuram

Members of Legislative Assembly
Year Member Political Party
1955 Bojja Appala Swamy Independent
1962 Kudupudi Suryanarayana Independent
1965 (By-Polls) N.R.Raju Indian National Congress
1967 Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao Independent
1972 Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao Indian National Congress
1978 Palacholla Venkata Sri Rama Rao Janata Party
1983 Satyanarayana Rao Telugu Desam Party
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
2009 Pinipe Viswarup Indian National Congress
2014 Aithabathula Anandarao Telugu Desam Party
2019 Pinipe Viswarup YSR Congress Party

Election results

Assembly Elections 1955
1955 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Bojja Appala Swamy 30858
CPI (M) Guttula Narayandas 26165
Independent gain from CPI (M) Swing

Assembly Elections 1962
1962 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Kudupudi Suryanarayana 23581
INC Nadimpalli Venkatapathi 20820
Independent gain from INC Swing

Assembly Elections 1965(by-polls)
1965 By-polls Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC N.R.Raju 25166
Independent K.Venkataratnam 20235
INC gain from Independent Swing

Assembly Elections 1967
1967 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent K. P. Rao 25383
INC N. R. Raju 22091
Independent gain from INC Swing

Assembly Elections 1972
1972 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao 35048
Independent Ravanam Ramachendra Rao 25398
INC gain from Independent Swing

Assembly Elections 1983
1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Satyanarayana Rao 41283
INC Prabhakarrao Kudupudi 32354
Independent gain from INC Swing

Assembly Elections 1985
1985 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao 41296
TDP Ravanam Ramachandra Rao 33826
INC gain from TDP Swing

Assembly Elections 1989
1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao 45863
TDP Metla Satyanarayana Rao 41590
INC gain from TDP Swing

Assembly Elections 1994
1994 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TDP Dr. Metla Satyanarayana Rao 52926
INC Kudupudi Prabhakararao 36112
TDP gain from INC Swing

Assembly Elections 1999
1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TDP Metla Satyanarayana Rao 53246
INC Kudupudi Prabhakara Rao 34466
TDP gain from INC Swing

Assembly Elections 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

Assembly Elections 2009
2009 Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Pinipe Viswarupu 57,922 41.96 +16.03
Praja Rajyam 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

Assembly elections 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

Assembly Elections 2019
2019 Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections: Amalapuram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
YSRCP Pinipe Viswarupu 72,003 42.51%
TDP Aithabathula Anandarao 46,349 27.36%
Jana Sena 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. "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.
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