Penamaluru (Assembly constituency)

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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency
| name = Penamaluru
| map =
| parl_name = [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| state = [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| union_territory =
| district = [[Krishna district|Krishna]]
| electorate =267,751
| year =
| reserved = General
| mla = [[Kolusu Parthasarathy]]
| party = YSRCP
}}

'''Penamaluru (Assembly constituency)''' is a constituency in [[Krishna district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]], representing the [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] in [[India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ceoandhra.nic.in/ceoap_new/ceo/documents/Electors_Summary%20_25.03.2019.pdf|title=Electors Summary|date=25 May 2019|website=Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh|format=PDF|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref> It is one of the seven assembly segments of [[Machilipatnam (Lok Sabha constituency)]], along with [[Gannavaram (Assembly constituency)|Gannavaram]], [[Gudivada (Assembly constituency)|Gudivada]], [[Pedana (Assembly constituency)|Pedana]], [[Machilipatnam (Assembly constituency)|Machilipatnam]], [[Avanigadda (Assembly constituency)|Avanigadda]] and [[Pamarru (SC)(Assembly constituency)|Pamarru SC]].<ref name="constituencies">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008|date=17 December 2018|website=The Election Commission of India|pages=21, 31|format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003220916/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|archive-date=3 October 2018|url-status=dead|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref> ''Kolusu Partha Sarathy'' is the present [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of the constituency, who won the [[2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]] from [[YSR Congress Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://results.eci.gov.in/ac/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS011.htm|title=Assembly Election 2019|website=Election Commission of India|access-date=24 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524074223/http://results.eci.gov.in/ac/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS011.htm|archive-date=24 May 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{As of|2019|03|25}}, there a total of 267,751 electors in the constituency.<ref name="electors">{{cite web|url=http://ceoandhra.nic.in/ceoap_new/ceo/documents/Electors_Summary%20_25.03.2019.pdf|title=Electors Summary|date=25 May 2019|website=Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh|format=PDF|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref>

== Mandals ==

The three mandals that forms the assembly constituency are:<ref name="constituencies" />

{{srn}}
{|class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers static-row-header-hash"
!Mandal
|-
| [[Kankipadu mandal|Kankipadu]]
|-
| [[Vuyyuru mandal|Vuyyuru]]
|-
| [[Penamaluru mandal|Penamaluru]]
|}

== Members of Legislative Assembly Kankipadu ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Member
! colspan="2" | Political party
|-
| 1952
| [[Myneni Lakshmanaswamy]]
| {{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
|-
| 1955
| [[Chennupati Ramakotaiah]]
| {{Full party name with color|Krishikar Lok Party}}
|-
| 1962
| [[Chennupati Ramakotaiah]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1963
| [[M.L.Swamy]]
| {{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
|-
| 1967
| [[Akkineni Bhaskar Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1972
| [[Akkineni Bhaskar Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1978
| [[Koneru Ranga Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1983
| [[Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru)]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 1985
| [[Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru)]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 1989
| [[Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru)]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 1994
| [[Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru)]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 1999
| [[Nageswara Rao Yalamanchili]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 2004
| [[Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru)]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|}

== Members of Legislative Assembly Vuyyuru ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Member
! colspan="2" | Political party
|-
| 1955
| [[Kakani Venkataratnam]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1962
| [[Kakani Venkataratnam]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1967
| [[V. R. Kadiyala]]
| {{Full party name with color|Independent politician}}
|-
| 1972
| [[Kakani Venkataratnam]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1978
| [[Vadde Sohanadreeswara Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
| 1983
| [[K. P. Reddaiah]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1985
| [[Anne Babu Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 1989
| [[Vangaveeti Sobhana Chalapathi Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1994
| [[Anne Babu Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 1999
| [[Anne Babu Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 2001
| [[Anne Vijaya Lakshmi]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 2004
| [[Kolusu Parthasarathy]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|}

== Members of Legislative Assembly Penamaluru ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Member
! colspan="2" | Political party
|-
| 2009
| [[Kolusu Parthasarathy]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 2014
| [[Bode Prasad]]
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}<ref name="eci_2014">{{cite web |title=The Andhra Pradesh Gazette, Part-V Extraordinary |url=http://ceoandhra.nic.in/GE_2014/(GE,%202014)%20-%20DUE%20Constitution%20(APLA_ELECTED%20List).pdf |website=Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh |access-date=13 June 2019 |location=Hyderabad |page=13 |format=PDF |date=20 May 2014}}</ref>
|-
| 2019
| [[Kolusu Parthasarathy]]
| {{Full party name with color|YSR Congress Party}}
|}

== Election results ==
=== Assembly Elections 2009 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2009 Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections]]: Penamaluru}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Kolusu Parthasarathy]]
|votes = 61,346
|percentage = 37.44
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Telugu Desam Party
|candidate = [[Chalasani Venkateswara Rao]]
|votes = 61,169
|percentage = 37.33
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Praja Rajyam Party
|candidate = [[Dhanekula Murali Mohana Rao]]
|votes = 31,930
|percentage = 19.49
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 177
|percentage = 0.14
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 163,851
|percentage = 80.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box new seat win|
|winner = Indian National Congress
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== Assembly elections 2014 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Penamaluru}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Telugu Desam Party
|candidate = [[Bode prasad]]
|votes = 1,02,330
|percentage = 54.97
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = YSR Congress Party
|candidate = [[V R Vidyasagar Kukkala]]
|votes = 70,882
|percentage = 38.08
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Nerella Sobhan Babu]]
|votes = 3336
|percentage = 1.79
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 31,448
|percentage = 16.90
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 186,128
|percentage = 80.19
|change = -0.52
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Telugu Desam Party
|loser = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== Assembly elections 2019 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Penamaluru}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = YSR Congress Party
|candidate = [[Kolusu Parthasarathy]]
|votes = 1,01,485
|percentage = 47.43
|change = +9.35
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Telugu Desam Party
|candidate = [[Bode Prasad]]
|votes = 90,168
|percentage = 42.14
|change = -12.83
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = [[L.Karunakar Das]]
|votes = 15,388
|percentage = 7.19
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 11,317
|percentage = 5.29
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 2,13,929
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = YSR Congress Party
|loser = Telugu Desam
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

== See also ==
* [[List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Krishna district]]
[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh]]

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