Araku Lok Sabha constituency

Araku
AP-1
Araku ; AP-1
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Araku Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Palakonda; Kurupam; Parvathipuram; Salur; Araku Valley; Paderu; Rampachodavaram
Established	2008
Reservation	ST
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Gumma Thanuja Rani
Party	YSRCP
Elected year	2024

Araku is one of the twenty-five lok sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. As per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order (2008), it was formed as a reserved constituency for the Scheduled tribes, comprising seven assembly segments and belongs to Alluri Sitharama Raju district and Parvathipuram Manyam district s .^[1]^[2]

Quick Facts Araku AP-1, Constituency details ...

#	Name	District	Member
10	Palakonda (ST)	Parvathipuram	Nimmaka Jaya Krishna	JSP	BJP
11	Kurupam (ST)		Jagadeeswari Thoyaka	TDP	BJP
12	Parvathipuram (SC)		Bonela Vijaya Chandra	TDP	BJP
13	Saluru (ST)		Gummadi Sandhya Rani	TDP	BJP
28	Araku Valley (ST)	Alluri Sitharama Raju	Regam Matyalingam	YSRCP	YSRCP
29	Paderu (ST)		Matsyarasa Visweswara Raju	YSRCP	YSRCP
53	Rampachodavaram (ST)		Miryala Sirisha Devi	TDP	YSRCP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Gumma Thanuja Rani	477,005	40.96	11.18
	BJP	Kothapalli Geetha	4,26,425	36.62	34.96
	CPI(M)	Appalanarasa Pachipenta	1,23,129	10.57	10.57
	NOTA	None of the above	50,470	4.33	0.12
Majority			50,580	4.34	16.44
Turnout			11,65,787	74.87	0.84
	YSRCP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Goddeti Madhavi	562,190	52.14	6.93
	TDP	Kishore Chandra Deo	338,101	31.36	3.85
	NOTA	None of the above	47,977	4.45	2.64
	JSP	Gangulaiah Vampuru	42,794	3.97	N/A
	BJP	K. K. V. V. V. Satyanarayana Reddy	17,867	1.66	1.66
	INC	Shruti Devi Vyricherla	17,730	1.64	4.15
Majority			224,089	20.78	10.78
Turnout			10,74,538	74.03	2.53
Registered electors			14,51,418
	YSRCP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Kothapalli Geetha	413,191	45.42	*New*
	TDP	Gummadi Sandhya Rani	321,793	35.38	35.38
	INC	Kishore Chandra Deo	52,884	5.81	39.68
	CPI(M)	Midiyam Baburao	38,898	4.26	16.94
	Independent	Kangala Baludora	23,251	2.55	N/A
	Independent	Chetti Sankararao	8,951	0.98	N/A
	AAP	Burjabariki Dhanaraju	8,569	0.94	New
	Independent	Sallangi Ratnam	7,688	0.85	N/A
	Independent	Biddika Ramaiah	7,587	0.83	N/A
	Independent	Illa Rami Reddy	5,692	0.63	0.90
	Independent	Vanugu Sankararao	4,614	0.51	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	16,532	1.82	N/A
Majority			91,398	10.04	14.25
Turnout			909,614	72.92	5.91
	YSRCP gain from INC		Swing

Assembly Segments

2009 Indian general election: Araku
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Kishore Chandra Deo	360,458	45.49
	CPI(M)	Midiyam Baburao	168,014	21.20
	PRP	Meenaka Simhachalam	128,649	16.24
	Independent	Jayalakshmi Shambudu	27,758	3.50
	BSP	Lake Raja Rao	24,331	3.07
	BJP	Kurusa Bojjaiah	23,093	2.91
	Independent	Appa Rao Kinjedi	15,851	2.00
	LSP	Vadigala Pentayya	13,886	1.75
	Independent	Illa Rami Reddy	12,086	1.53
	RJD	Gadugu Balayya Dora	10,450	1.32
	Independent	Arika Gumpa Swamy	7,791	0.98
Majority			192,444	24.29
Turnout			792,367	67.01
	INC win (new seat)