Anantapur Urban Assembly constituency is a constituency in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Anantapur Lok Sabha constituency.
Daggupati Venkateswara Prasad is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party.[1] As of 2019, there are a total of 255,682 electors in the constituency.[needs update] The constituency was established in 2008, as per the Delimitation Orders (2008).
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Member | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Bodimalla Gurunatha Reddy | Indian National Congress | |
| 2012 | YSR Congress Party | ||
| 2014 | V. Prabhakar Chowdary | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 2019 | Anantha Venkatarami Reddy | YSR Congress Party | |
| 2024 | Daggupati Venkateswara Prasad | Telugu Desam Party | |
Election results
2009
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | B Gurunatha Reddy | 45,275 | 39.03 | ||
| TDP | Mahalakshmi Sreenivasulu | 32,033 | 27.61 | ||
| PRP | T J Prakash | 28,489 | 24.56 | ||
| Majority | 13,242 | 13.42 | |||
| Turnout | 116,008 | 50.47 | |||
| INC win (new seat) | |||||
2012
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSRCP | Bodimalla Gurunatha Reddy | 65,711 | 52.90 | ||
| TDP | M. Sreenivasulu | 40,980 | 32.98 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| YSRCP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | V. Prabhakar Chowdary | 74,704 | 48.07 | ||
| YSRCP | B Gurunatha Reddy | 65,370 | 42.06 | ||
| Majority | 9,334 | 6.01 | |||
| Turnout | 155,417 | 61.50 | +11.03 | ||
| TDP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSRCP | Anantha Venkatarami Reddy | 88,704 | 53.71% | ||
| TDP | V Prabhakar Chowdary | 60,006 | 36% | ||
| JSP | T. C. Varun | 10,920 | 7% | ||
| Majority | 28,698 | 17.37% | |||
| Turnout | 1,65,141 | +3.08% | |||
| YSRCP gain from TDP | Swing | ||||
2024
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Daggupati Venkateswara Prasad | 103,334 | 54.51 | ||
| YSRCP | Anantha Venkatarami Reddy | 80,311 | 42.36 | ||
| CPI | C. Jaffer | 2,838 | 1.50 | ||
| JAI BHARATH NATIONAL PARTY | AKULA RAGHAVENDRA | 1,309 | 0.71 | ||
| NOTA | None Of The Above | 1,379 | 0.73 | ||
| Majority | 23,023 | 12.14 | |||
| Turnout | 1,89,575 | ||||
| TDP gain from YSRCP | Swing | ||||
See also
References
- ^ "Assembly Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.