Vijayawada Lok Sabha constituency

Vijayawada 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 NTR district.^[1]

Most successful political parties

  INC (11 terms) (58%)

  TDP (6 terms) (32%)

  INC(I) (1 term) (5%)

  Independent (1 term) (5%)

Vijayawada AP-12
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Vijayawada Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Tiruvuru Vijayawada West Vijayawada Central Vijayawada East Mylavaram Nandigama Jaggayyapeta
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Kesineni Sivanath
Party	TDP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Kesineni Srinivas

Assembly segments

Vijayawada constituency presently comprises the following Legislative Assembly segments:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
69	Tiruvuru (SC)	NTR	Kolikapudi Srinivasa Rao		TDP		TDP
79	Vijayawada West		Sujana Chowdary		BJP		TDP
80	Vijayawada Central		Bonda Umamaheswara Rao		TDP		TDP
81	Vijayawada East		Gadde Rama Mohan		TDP		TDP
82	Mylavaram		Vasantha Krishna Prasad		TDP		TDP
83	Nandigama (SC)		Tangirala Sowmya		TDP		TDP
84	Jaggayyapeta		Rajagopal Sreeram		TDP		TDP

Members of parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952	Harindranath Chattopadhyaya		Independent
1957	Dr. Komarraju Atchamamba		Indian National Congress
1962	Kanuri Lakshmana Rao
1967
1971
1977	Godey Murahari
1980	Chennupati Vidya		Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao		Telugu Desam Party
1989	Chennupati Vidya		Indian National Congress
1991	Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao		Telugu Desam Party
1996	Parvathaneni Upendra		Indian National Congress
1998
1999	Gadde Rama Mohan		Telugu Desam Party
2004	Rajagopal Lagadapati		Indian National Congress
2009
2014	Kesineni Srinivas		Telugu Desam Party
2019
2024	Kesineni Sivanath

Election results

General Election 1989

General Election, 1989: Vijayawada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vidya Chennupati	423,867	53.01	+6.60
	TDP	Vadde Sobhanadreeswarra Rao	365,663	45.73	−5.24
Majority			58,204	6.39
Turnout			799,626	72.29	+0.09
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 1991

General Election, 1991: Vijayawada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Vadde Sobhanadreeswarra Rao	326,890	48.89	+3.16
	INC	Vidya Chennupati	290,669	43.47	−9.54
Majority			36,211	5.42
Turnout			668,647	60.53	+0.09
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 1996

General Election, 1996: Vijayawada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	P. Upendra	397,709	45.16	+1.69
	TDP	Vadde Sobhanadreeswarra Rao	283,435	32.18	−16.71
	NTRTDP(LP)	Rajasekhar Devineni	169,199	19.21
Majority			114,274	12.98
Turnout			880,741	65.19	+4.66
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 1998

General Election, 1998: Vijayawada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	P. Upendra	405,062	45.02	−0.14
	TDP	Jai Ramesh Dasari	374,995	41.68	+9.50
	BJP	Vadde Ramakrishna Prasad	104,630	11.63	+10.27
Majority			30,067	3.34
Turnout			899,683	66.88	+1.69
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1999

General Election, 1999: Vijayawada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Gadde Ramamohan	482,968	51.96	+10.28
	INC	P. Upendra	395,902	42.59	−2.43
Majority			87,096	9.37
Turnout			929,476	67.14	+0.26
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2004

General Election, 2004: Vijayawada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rajagopal Lagadapati	519,624	54.95	+12.36
	TDP	Aswani Dutt	405,037	42.84	−9.12
	BSP	Nandeti Prabhakar Rao	6,472	0.68
	Pyramid Party of India	Koneru Vara Lakshmi	5,105	0.54	+0.24
	Independent	Someswara Rao Madala	3,039	0.32
	Independent	Syed Moinuddin	1,443	0.15
	TRS	J Ramchandra Rao	1,268	0.13
	Independent	Ravi Kumar Domakonda	1,005	0.11
	Independent	Jakka Taraka Mallikarjuna Rao	637	0.07
	Independent	Apparao Damalapati	549	0.06
	Independent	Gatla Venkata Narayana Reddy	493	0.05
	Independent	Donepudi Srinivas	482	0.05
	Independent	Gottumukkala Siva Prasadaraju	396	0.04
Majority			114,487	12.11
Turnout			945,550	64.56	−2.58
	INC gain from TDP		Swing	+12.36

General Election 2009

General Election, 2009: Vijayawada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rajagopal Lagadapati	429,394	39.46	−15.49
	TDP	Vamsi Mohan Vallabhaneni	416,682	38.30	−4.54
	PRP	Rajiv Chanumolu	164,666	15.13
	LSP	Devineni Kishore Kumar	20,880	1.92
	BJP	Laka Vengala Rao	15,951	1.47
	Independent	Boppa Venkateswara Rao	6,978	0.64
	Independent	Bolisetty Haribabu	5,608	0.52
	Independent	Veerla Sanjeeva Rao	4,615	0.42
	BSP	Sistla Narasimha Murthy	4,585	0.42	−0.26
	Pyramid Party of India	Raghava Rao Jakka	3,227	0.30	−0.24
	Independent	Senapathi Chiranjeevi	2,803	0.26
	Independent	Jakka Taraka Mallikharjuna Rao	2,419	0.22	+0.16
	Independent	Appikatla Jawahar	1,931	0.18
	Independent	Shaik Mastan	1,884	0.17
	Independent	Deverasetty Ravindra Babu	1,596	0.15
	Independent	Baipudi Nageswara Rao	1,400	0.13
	Independent	Venkata Rao P.	1,033	0.09
	Independent	Perupogu Venkateswara Rao	927	0.09
	Independent	Krishna Murthy Sunkara	868	0.08
	Independent	Devireddy Ravindranatha Reddy	850	0.08
Majority			12,712	1.17
Turnout			1,088,297	77.61	+13.05
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 2014

General Election, 2014: Vijayawada^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kesineni Srinivas (Nani)	592,696	49.59	+11.30
	YSRCP	Koneru Rajendra Prasad	517,834	43.72	+43.72
	INC	Avinash Devineni	39,751	3.33	−36.13
	AAP	Harmohinder Singh Sahni	3,088	0.26
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,290	0.44
Majority			74,862	6.26
Turnout			1,195,075	76.39	−1.22
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Vijayawada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kesineni Srinivas (Nani)	575,498	45.04	−4.55
	YSRCP	Prasad V Potluri	566,772	44.36	0.64
	JSP	Muthamsetti Sudhakar	81,650	6.39
Majority			8,726	0.68%	−5.87%
Turnout			12,77,775	77.30
Registered electors			16,52,994
	TDP hold		Swing

General Election 2024

General Election, 2024: Vijayawada^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kesineni Sivanath	794,154	58.21
	YSRCP	Kesineni Srinivas	5,12,069	37.53
	INC	Valluru Bhargav	24,106	1.77
	NOTA	None of the above	9,193	0.67
Majority			2,82,085	20.68
Turnout			13,64,405
	TDP hold		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. 17 December 2018. p. 31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 31.
3. VIJAYAWADA LOK SABHA (GENERAL) ELECTIONS RESULT
4. "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Vijayawada". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.

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