Vijayawada (Lok Sabha constituency)

Vijayawada
Vijayawada
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Kesineni Srinivas
Parliamentary Party	Telugu Desam Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1952-present
Reservation	None
State	Andhra Pradesh
Assembly Constituencies	Tiruvuru ; Vijayawada West; Vijayawada Central; Vijayawada East; Mylavaram; Nandigama; Jaggayyapeta

Vijayawada (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the twenty-five lok sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. It comprises eight assembly segments and belongs to Krishna district.^[1]

Assembly segments

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

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
69	Tiruvuru	SC	Krishna
79	Vijayawada West	None	Krishna
80	Vijayawada Central	None	Krishna
81	Vijayawada East	None	Krishna
82	Mylavaram	None	Krishna
83	Nandigama	SC	Krishna
84	Jaggayyapeta	None	Krishna

Year	Winner
1952	Harindranath Chattopadhyaya	Independent
1957	Dr. Komarraju Atchamamba	Indian National Congress
1962	K. L. Rao	Indian National Congress
1967	K. L. Rao	Indian National Congress
1971	K. L. Rao	Indian National Congress
1977	Godey Murahari	Indian National Congress
1980	Chennupati Vidya	Indian National Congress
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	Parvathaneni Upendra	Indian National Congress
1999	Gadde Ramamohan	Telugu Desam Party
2004	Rajagopal Lagadapati	Indian National Congress
2009	Rajagopal Lagadapati	Indian National Congress
2014	Kesineni Srinivas	Telugu Desam Party
2019	Kesineni Srinivas	Telugu Desam Party

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Vijayawada^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kesineni Srinivas	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: Vijayawada
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kesineni Srinivas	5,75,498	45.04	−4.55
	YSRCP	Prasad V Potluri	5,66,772	44.36	0.64
	JSP	Muthamsetti Sudhakar	81,650	6.39
Majority			8,726	0.68%	−5.87%
Turnout			12,77,775	77.30
	TDP hold		Swing

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