Palair (Assembly constituency)

Paleru
Paleru
Constituency; for the Telangana Legislative Assembly
District	Khammam
State	Telangana
Electorate	1,94,037
Current constituency
Created	1952
Party	INC
MLA	Kandala Upender Reddy

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Palair Assembly constituency is a constituency of Telangana Legislative Assembly, India. It is one of 10 constituencies in Khammam district. It is part of Khammam Lok Sabha constituency.

Thummala Nageswara Rao, was Roads & Buildings Minister of Telangana representing the constituency before losing to Kandala Upender Reddy in Telangana Assembly Elections in 2018.

Mandals[edit]

The Assembly constituency presently comprises the following mandals:

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Mandal
Khammam Rural
Kusumanchi
Tirumalayapalem
Nelakondapalli

Members of Legislative Assembly[edit]

Year	Member
1972	Kathula Shanthaiah	Indian National Congress (I)
1978	Hassainu Potta Pinjara	Indian National Congress (I)
1983	Bheempaka Bhupathi Rao	Communist Party of India
1985	Baji Hanumanthu	Communist Party of India
1989	Sambani Chandrasekhar	Indian National Congress
1994	Venkata Veeraiah Sandra	Communist Party of India
1999	Sambani Chandrasekhar	Indian National Congress
2004	Sambani Chandrasekhar	Indian National Congress
2009	Ramreddy Venkat Reddy	Indian National Congress
2014	Ramreddy Venkat Reddy	Indian National Congress
2016 (By-election)	Thummala Nageshwar Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
2018	Kandala Upender Reddy	Indian National Congress

Election results[edit]

Telangana Legislative Assembly Election, 2018[edit]

Telangana Legislative Assembly Election, 2018: Paleru (Assembly constituency)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	INC	Kandala Upender Reddy	89,407
	TRS	Thummala Nageswara Rao	81,738
Majority			7,669
	INC gain from TRS		Swing

Telangana Legislative Assembly Byelection, 2016[edit]

The by-election was necessitated following the death of Congress Member R.Venkat Reddy who won the seat in 2014. T. Nageshwar Rao of Telangana Rashtra Samithi won it with the biggest majority in the history of Paleru constituency.^[1]

Bye-elections, 2016: Palair
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	TRS	Thummala Nageswara Rao	94,940	55.5%
	INC	RamReddy Sucharitha Reddy	49,258	28.8%
	CPI (M)	Pothineni Sudarshan Rao	15,538	9.1%
Majority			45,676
Turnout			1,71,074	89.85
	TRS gain from INC		Swing

Telangana Legislative Assembly election, 2014[edit]

Telangana Assembly Elections, 2014: Paleru (Assembly constituency)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Ramreddy Venkat Reddy	69,707	39.28%
	TDP	Baby Swarna Kumari Maddineni	47,844	26.96%
	CPI (M)	Pothineni Sudarshan Rao	44,245	24.93%
	TRS	Ravella Ravindra	4,041	2.28%
Majority			21,863
Turnout			1,77,461	91.46%
	INC hold		Swing

References[edit]

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[1] TRS wrests Palair assembly seat from Congress with huge win

[2] Paleru Results

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