Nellore Lok Sabha constituency

Nellore Lok Sabha constituency is one of the twenty-five Lok Sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. It comprises seven assembly segments and belongs to Nellore district.^[1]

Nellore
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Nellore Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Kandukur Kavali Atmakur Kovuru Nellore City Nellore Rural Udayagiri
Established	1952
Total electors	16,79,359
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies, since 2008, it comprises the following Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly segments^[2]

#	Name	District	Members	Party		Leading (in 2024)
109	Kandukur	Nellore	Inturi Nageswara Rao		TDP		TDP
114	Kavali		Dagumati Venkata Krishna Reddy		TDP		TDP
115	Atmakur		Anam Ramanarayana Reddy		TDP		TDP
116	Kovuru		Vemireddy Prashanti Reddy		TDP		TDP
117	Nellore City		Ponguru Narayana		TDP		TDP
118	Nellore Rural		Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy		TDP		TDP
123	Udayagiri		Kakarla Suresh		TDP		TDP

Following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies, from 1976-2008, it comprises the following Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly segments

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
126	Allur	None	Nellore
127	Kovur	None	Nellore
128	Atmakur	None	Nellore
129	Rapur	None	Nellore
130	Nellore	None	Nellore
131	Sarvepall	None	Nellore
132	Gudur	SC	Nellore

Members of Parliament

^ indicates bye-election

Year	Member	Party
1952	Bezawada Ramachandra Reddy		Independent
1957	B. Anjanappa		Indian National Congress
1962
1967
1971	Doddavarapu Kamakshiah
1977
1980
1983	Puchalapalli Penchalaiah
1984
1989
1991	Padmashree Kudumula
1996	Panabaka Lakshmi
1998
1999	Vukkala Rajeswaramma		Telugu Desam Party
2004	Panabaka Lakshmi		Indian National Congress
2009	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy
2012^			YSR Congress Party
2014
2019	Adala Prabhakara Reddy
2024	Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy		Telugu Desam Party

Election results

General Election 1989

General Election, 1989: Nellore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Puchalapalli Penchalaiah	377,602	52.83	+8.52
	TDP	M. Nagabhushanamma	305,763	42.78	−11.31
Majority			71,839	10.05
Turnout			714,775	67.15	+3.34
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 1991

General Election, 1991: Nellore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Padmashree Kudumula	268,626	45.68	−7.15
	TDP	M. Nagabhushanamma	223,769	38.05	−4.73
	BJP	Gaddam Laxmi Narayana	85,306	14.51
Majority			44,857	7.63
Turnout			588,098	55.10	−12.05
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1996

General Election, 1996: Nellore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Panabaka Lakshmi	269,498	39.62	−6.06
	CPI(M)	T P Bhanu Raju	201,313	29.59
	NTRTDP(LP)	Pasam Suneel Kumar	103,947	15.28
	BJP	Gaddam Laxmi Narayana	83,585	12.29
Majority			68,185	10.03
Turnout			680,230	57.51	+2.41
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1998

General Election, 1998: Nellore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Panabaka Lakshmi	296,731	40.06	+0.44
	CPI(M)	Buduru Swarnalatha	250,204	33.78	+4.19
	BJP	Karupothala Balakondaiah	175,074	23.63	+11.35
Majority			46,527	6.28
Turnout			740,792	63.52	+6.01
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1999

General Election, 1999: Nellore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Vukkala Rajeswaramma	381,166	49.51
	INC	Panabaka Lakshmi	340,713	44.26	+4.20
Majority			40,453	5.25
Turnout			769,832	66.07	+2.55
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2004

General Election, 2004: Nellore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Panabaka Lakshmi	450,129	53.81
	BJP	Balakondaiah Karupotala	321,905	38.48
Majority			128,224	15.33
Turnout			836,502	72.54	+6.47
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 2009

General Election, 2009: Nellore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy	430,235	42.92
	TDP	Vanteru Venu Gopala Reddy	375,242	37.43
	PRP	Jana Ramachandraiah	138,111	13.78
	BJP	Bathina Narasimha Rao	16,727	1.67
	LSP	Vemuri Bhaskara Rao	10,751	1.07
Majority			54,993	5.49
Turnout			1,002,419	69.09	−3.45
	INC hold		Swing

By-Election 2012

Bye-election, 2012: Nellore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy	535,436	54.60
	INC	T. Subbarami Reddy	243,691	24.85
	TDP	Vanteru Venugopal Reddy	154,103	15.71
	CPI(M)	Chandra Rajagopal	17,952	1.83
	IND.	Meda Malla Reddy	6,876	0.70
Majority			291,745	29.75
Turnout			980,970	72.56
	YSRCP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Nellore^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy	576,396	48.53
	TDP	Adala Prabhakara Reddy	562,918	47.40
	INC	Narayana Reddy Vakati	22,870	1.93
	JSP	Syed Haneef	5,578	0.47
	NOTA	None of the above	5,549	0.47
Majority			13,478	1.13
Turnout			11,88,855	74.02	+6.28
	YSRCP hold		Swing

General Election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Nellore^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Adala Prabhakara Reddy	683,830	53.04
	TDP	Beeda Masthan Rao	535,259	41.52
	CPI(M)	Chandra Rajagopal	18,830	1.46
	NOTA	None of the above	17,161	1.33
	BJP	Sannapureddy Suresh Reddy	12,513	0.97
Majority			148,571	11.54
Turnout			12,87,036	76.94
Registered electors			16,72,845
	YSRCP hold		Swing

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Nellore^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy	766,202	55.70
	YSRCP	V. Vijayasai Reddy	5,20,300	37.82
	INC	Koppula Raju	54,844	3.99
	NOTA	None of the above	15,577	1.13
Majority			2,45,902	17.88
Turnout			13,78,697	80.49
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly