Araku Valley (ST) (Assembly constituency)

Araku Valley Assembly constituency is an ST 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 Araku (ST) (Lok Sabha constituency), along with Kurupam (ST), Palakonda, Salur, Paderu (ST) and Rampachodavaram.[2] Chetti Palguna is the present MLA of the constituency, who won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party.[3] As of 25 March 2019, there a total of 220,773 electors in the constituency.[4]

Araku Valley (ST)
Constituency
DistrictVisakhapatnam
StateAndhra Pradesh
Electorate220,773
Current constituency
PartyYuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
MLAChetti Palguna
ReservationST

Mandals

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

S.No Mandal Name
1 Munchingiputtu
2 Pedabayalu
3 Dumbriguda
4 Araku Valley
5 Hukumpeta
6 Ananthagiri

Members of Legislative Assembly
Year Member Political Party
2009 Siveri Soma Telugu Desam Party
2014 Kidari Sarveswara Rao Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
2019 Chetti Palguna Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party

Election results

Assembly Elections 2009
2009 Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections: Araku Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TDP Siveri Soma 34,959 29.04
INC Vanjangi Kanthamma 34,557 28.71
Independent Gangadhara Swamy Setti 19,165 15.92
BSP Pangi Raja Rao 13,302 11.05
Praja Rajyam Mandi Jayavathi 8,101 6.73
Majority 402 0.33
Turnout 120,459 61.19
TDP win (new seat)

Assembly elections 2014
2014 Andhra Pradeshive Assembly election: Araku Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
YSRCP Kidari Sarveswara Rao 63,700 43.88
TDP Siveri Soma 29,647 20.42
Independent Ravibabu Kumbha 25,789 17.76
Majority 34,053 23.46
Turnout 150,109 70.12 +8.93
YSRCP gain from TDP Swing

Assembly elections 2019
2019 Andhra Pradeshive Assembly election: Araku Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Adapa Bonju Naidu 4887 10
NOTA None of the above N/A
Majority
Turnout
YSRCP gain from [[|N/A]] 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. 18, 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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