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#REDIRECT [[Kovvur Assembly constituency]]
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{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency
| name              = Kovvur
| map                =
| parl_name          = [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| state              = [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| union_territory    =
| district          = [[West Godavari district|West Godavari]]
| electorate        = 176,409
| year              =
| reserved          = [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|SC]]
| mla                = Taneti Vanita
| party              = [[Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party]]
}}
 
'''Kovvur Assembly constituency''' is a constituency in [[West Godavari 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|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref> It is one of the seven assembly segments of [[Rajahmundry (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency]], along with [[Anaparthy (Assembly constituency)|Anaparthy]], [[Rajanagram (Assembly constituency)|Rajanagaram]], [[Rajahmundry City (Assembly constituency)|Rajahmundry City]], [[Rajahmundry Rural (Assembly constituency)|Rajahmundry Rural]], [[Nidadavole (Assembly constituency)|Nidadavole]], and [[Gopalapuram (SC)(Assembly constituency)|Gopalapuram]].<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=19, 30|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> ''Taneti Vanita'' is the present [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of the constituency, who won the [[2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]] from [[Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Assembly Election 2019 |url=http://results.eci.gov.in/ac/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS011.htm |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 176,409 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|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref>
 
== History ==
It is considered a stronghold of [[Telugu Desam Party|TDP]], which won all the election battles here since its inception in 1983 except in 1999 when congress won with sufficient majority. Currently, Taneti Vanita(YSR Congress) is the present kovvur constituency's MLA, who won 2019 Assembly elections against Vangalapudi Anitha(TDP) with a majority of 25,248 votes.<ref>http://www.indiastudychannel.com/sites/109882/-Vemuluru.aspx</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
|-
| [[Kovvur]]
|-
| [[Chagallu, West Godavari district|Chagallu]]
|-
| [[Tallapudi]]
|}
 
==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" | Year
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" | Member
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" colspan="2" | Political party
|-
| 2009
| T V Rama Rao
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 2014
| K S Jawahar
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 2019
| [[Taneti Vanitha]]
| {{Full party name with color|YSR Congress Party}}
|}
 
== Election results ==
=== Assembly Elections 2004 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Kovvur}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Telugu Desam Party
  |candidate  = [[Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao]]
  |votes      = 65,329
  |percentage = 48.26
  |change    = +2.47
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Indian National Congress
  |candidate  = [[G S Rao]]
  |votes      = 63,998
  |percentage = 47.27
  |change    = -3.76
}}
{{Election box majority|
  |votes      = 1,331
  |percentage = 28.89
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes      = 135,378
  |percentage = 79.52
  |change    = +5.33
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
  |winner    = Telugu Desam Party
  |loser      = Indian National Congress
  |swing      =
}}
{{Election box end}}


=== Assembly Elections 2009 ===
{{Redirect category shell|
{{Election box begin | title=[[2009 Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections]]: Kovvur}}
{{R from move}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Telugu Desam Party
  |candidate  = [[T V Rama Rao]]
  |votes      = 55,669
  |percentage = 41.80
  |change    = -6.46
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Indian National Congress
  |candidate  = [[Koyye Mosenu Raju]]
  |votes      = 40,191
  |percentage = 30.18
  |change    = -17.09
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Praja Rajyam Party
  |candidate  = [[Bunga Saradhi]]
  |votes      = 29,285
  |percentage = 21.99
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box majority|
  |votes      = 15,478
  |percentage = 11.62
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes      = 133,179
  |percentage = 83.78
  |change    = +4.26
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
  |winner    = Telugu Desam Party
  |loser      =
  |swing      =
}}
{{Election box end}}
=== Assembly elections 2014 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Kovvur}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Telugu Desam Party
  |candidate  = [[K S Jawahar]]
  |votes      = 74,661
  |percentage = 51.88
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = YSR Congress Party
  |candidate  = [[Vanita Taneti]]
  |votes      = 61,916
  |percentage = 43.02
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box majority|
  |votes      = 12,745
  |percentage = 8.86
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes      = 143,910
  |percentage = 85.30
  |change    = +1.52
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
  |winner    = Telugu Desam Party
  |loser      =
  |swing      =
}}
{{Election box end}}
=== Assembly elections 2019 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Kovvur}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = YSR Congress Party
  |candidate  = [[Vanita Taneti]]
  |votes      = 79,892
  |percentage = 52.35
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Telugu Desam Party
  |candidate  = [[Vangalapudi Anitha]]
  |votes      = 54,644
  |percentage = 35.80
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Bahujan Samaj Party
  |candidate  = [[Ravi Kumar Murthy Tamballapalli ]]
  |votes      = 11,677
  |percentage = 7.65
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box majority|
  |votes      = 25,248
  |percentage = 16.54
  |change    =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
  |votes      = 1,52,611
  |percentage = 86.41
  |change    = 0.1
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
  |winner    = YSR Congress Party
  |loser      = Telugu Desam Party
  |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 West Godavari district]]

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