Amalapuram Lok Sabha constituency

Amalapuram is one of the twenty-five lok sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. It comprises seven assembly segments and belongs to Konaseema district.^[1]

Amalapuram
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Amalapuram Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Ramachandrapuram Mummidivaram Amalapuram Razole Gannavaram Kothapeta Mandapeta
Established	1952
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Ganti Harish Madhur
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

As per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies order (2008), the constituency covers seven assembly segments:^[2]

#	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
42	Ramachandrapuram	Konaseema	Vasamsetti Subhash		TDP		TDP
43	Mummidivaram		Datla Subbaraju		TDP		TDP
44	Amalapuram(SC)		Aithabathula Anandarao		TDP		TDP
45	Razole(SC)		Deva Varaprasad		JSP		TDP
46	Gannavaram(SC)		Giddi Satyanarayana		JSP		TDP
47	Kothapeta		Bandaru Satyananda Rao		TDP		TDP
48	Mandapeta		V. Jogeswara Rao		TDP		TDP

Members of Parliament

^ indicates by-election

Year	Winner	Party
1957	Kaneti Mohana Rao		Communist Party of India
1962	Bayya Suryanarayana Murthy		Indian National Congress
1967
1971
1977	Kusuma Krishna Murthy
1980
1984	A. J. Venkata Butchi Maheshwara Rao		Telugu Desam Party
1989	Kusuma Krishna Murthy		Indian National Congress
1991	G. M. C. Balayogi		Telugu Desam Party
1996	K. S. R. Murthy		Indian National Congress
1998	G. M. C. Balayogi		Telugu Desam Party
1999
^2002	Ganti Vijaya Kumari
2004	G. V. Harsha Kumar		Indian National Congress
2009
2014	Pandula Ravindra Babu		Telugu Desam Party
2019	Chintha Anuradha		YSR Congress Party
2024	Ganti Harish Madhur		Telugu Desam Party

Election results

General Election 1989

1989 General Election: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kusuma Krishna Murthy	339,419	53.68	15.53
	TDP	Aithabathula Jogeswara Venkata Butchi	284,638	45.02	16.22
Majority			54,781	8.66
Turnout			632,287	75.66	1.04
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 1991

1991 General Election: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	G. M. C. Balayogi	273,490	53.19	8.17
	INC	Kusuma Krishna Murthy	186,003	36.18	17.50
Majority			87,487	17.01
Turnout			514,144	61.48	14.18
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 1996

1996 General Election: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. S. R. Murthy	245,477	39.51	+3.33
	TDP	G. M. C. Balayogi	216,346	34.82	−18.37
	NTRTDP(LP)	Babu Mohan Palli	143,718	23.13
Majority			29,131	4.69
Turnout			621,325	68.39	+6.91
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 1998

1998 General Election: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	G. M. C. Balayogi	286,953	43.57	+8.75
	INC	K. S. R. Murthy	196,713	29.87	−9.64
	BJP	Umamaheswara Rao Kommabathula	172,301	26.16
Majority			90,240	13.70
Turnout			658,569	73.39	+5.00
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 1999

1999 General Election: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	G. M. C. Balayogi	368,476	55.56	+11.99
	INC	Gollapalli Suryarao	249,597	37.63	+7.76
Majority			118,879	17.93
Turnout			663,249	73.02	−0.37
	TDP hold		Swing

By-election 2002

2002 by-election : Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Vijaya Kumari Ganti	341,923	90.82
	BSP	J. B. Raju	28,263	7.50
	Independent	P. Vijaya Chakravarthi	6,271	1.66
Majority			3,13,660	83.32
Turnout			3,76,457	37.73
Registered electors			9,97,557
	TDP hold		Swing

General Election 2004

2004 General Election: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	G. V. Harsha Kumar	350,346	49.75	12.12
	TDP	Janardhana Rao Dunna	308,861	43.86	11.70
	Independent	Bhupati Muneeswara Rao	26,699	3.79	N/A
	Independent	Ramesh Yalangi	9,550	1.36	N/A
	BSP	D. Muralikrishna	8,768	1.25	N/A
Majority			41,485	5.89	12.04
Turnout			704,224	74.59	0.85
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 2009

2009 General Election: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	G. V. Harsha Kumar	368,501	35.99	13.76
	PRP	Pothula Prameela Devi	328,496	32.09	New
	TDP	Gedela Varalakshmi	264,524	25.84	18.02
Majority			40,005	3.90	1.99
Turnout			1,023,765	80.28	2.20
	INC hold		Swing	13.76

General Election 2014

2014 General Election: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Pandula Ravindra Babu	594,547	53.04	27.20
	YSRCP	Pinipe Viswarupu	473,971	42.28	New
	INC	A. J. V. Butchi Maheswara Rao	12,182	1.09	34.90
	JSP	G. V. Harsha Kumar	9,931	0.89	New
	BSP	Geddam Sampada Rao	7,219	0.64	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	6,141	0.55	N/A
Majority			120,576	10.76	6.86
Turnout			1,120,927	82.55	2.27
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Chinta Anuradha	485,313	39.43	2.85
	TDP	Ganti Harish Madhur	4,45,347	36.18	16.86
	JSP	D. M. R. Sekhar	2,54,848	20.70	N/A
	BJP	Ayyaji Vema Manepalli	11,516	0.94	N/A
Majority			39,966	3.24	7.52
Turnout			12,35,368	84.64	2.09
Registered electors			14,59,556
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

2024

2019 Indian general elections: Amalapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Ganti Harish Madhur	796,981	61.25	+25.07
	YSRCP	Rapaka Vara Prasada Rao	4,54,785	34.95	−4.48
	INC	Janga Goutham	15,082	1.16
	NOTA	None Of The Above	13,518	1.04
Majority			3,42,196
Turnout			13,01,934	84.97
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly