Kankipadu Assembly constituency

Kankipadu was one of the Legislative Assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India.^[2] It was in Krishna district.

Kankipadu
Former constituency for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Krishna
Lok Sabha constituency	Vijayawada
Established	1951
Abolished	2008
Total electors	121,878[1]
Reservation	None

History of the constituency

The Kankipadu constituency was first created for the Madras State Legislative Assembly in 1952 by the 1951 delimitation.^[3] After the passing of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, it became a part of the new Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.^[4] After the passing of the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976, its extent was the Kankipadu, Poranki and Vijayawada firks in Vijayawada taluk excluding vijayawada municipality of Krishna district.^[2]

It was not present in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 and hence was defunct as of the 2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.^[5]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	MLA	Party
1983	Devineni Nehru		Telugu Desam Party
1985
1989
1994
1999	Yalamanchili Nageswara Rao		Telugu Desam Party
2004[1]	Devineni Nehru		Indian National Congress

Election results

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kankipadu^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Devineni Nehru	103,181	54.92
	TDP	Gadde Rammohan rao	85,656	42.98
Majority			17,525	8.95
Turnout			98,789	81.05
Registered electors			121,878
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• Krishna district