Kovvur Assembly constituency

Kovvur is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India.^[1] It is one of the seven assembly segments of Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Kovvur
Constituency No. 54 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Location of Kovvur Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	East Godavari
Lok Sabha constituency	Rajahmundry
Established	1951
Total electors	176,409
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Muppidi Venkateswara Rao
Party	Telugu Desam Party
Elected year	2024

Muppidi Venkateswara Rao is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party.^[3] As of 2019, there are a total of 176,409 electors in the constituency.^{[4][needs update]} The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).

History

It is considered a stronghold of TDP, which won all the election battles here since its inception in 1983 except in 1999 when congress won with sufficient majority. Currently, Taneti Vanita (YSR Congress) is the present Kovvur constituency's MLA, who won 2019 Assembly elections against Vangalapudi Anitha (TDP) with a majority of 25,248 votes.^[5]

Mandals

The three mandals that form the assembly constituency are:^[2]

Mandal
Kovvur
Chagallu
Tallapudi

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Political party
1952[6]	P. Sreeramachandra Rao		Communist Party of India
1955	Alluri Bapineedu		Indian National Congress
1962
1967	K. B. Rayudu		Independent
1972	Alla Hanumantha Rao
1978	Munshi Abdul Aziz		Indian National Congress
1983	Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao		Telugu Desam Party
1985
1989
1994
1999	G. S. Rao		Indian National Congress
2004	Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao		Telugu Desam Party
2009	T. V. Rama Rao
2014	K. S. Jawahar
2019	Taneti Vanitha		YSR Congress Party
2024	Muppidi Venkateswara Rao		Telugu Desam Party

Election results

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Pinnamaneeni Sreeramachandra Rao	32,655	17.73%
	INC	Alluri Bapineedu	25,930	14.08%	14.08%
	KMPP	Mallapudi Rajeswara Rao	22,664	12.30%
	Independent	Kalaputi Adeyya	22,459	12.19%
	KMPP	Pendyala Sree Ramachandra Venkatakrishna Ranga Rao	21,440	11.64%
	INC	N. Sreenivasa Rao	18,091	9.82%	9.82%
	Independent	Kaigala Suryachandra Rao	13,744	7.46%
	RPI	Erlapati Venkanna	12,570	6.82%
	Independent	Jeedigunta Suryanarayana Rao	5,698	3.09%
	Independent	Jonnalagadda Sreenivasa Sastry	4,950	2.69%
	Independent	Venpala Venkateswara Rao	3,994	2.17%
Margin of victory			6,725	3.65%
Turnout			1,84,195	136.86%
Registered electors			1,34,587
	CPI win (new seat)

2004

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao	65,329	48.26	+2.47
	INC	G S Rao	63,998	47.27	−3.76
Majority			1,331	28.89
Turnout			135,378	79.52	+5.33
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

2009

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	T V Rama Rao	55,669	41.80	−6.46
	INC	Koyye Moshenu Raju	40,191	30.18	−17.09
	PRP	Bunga Saradhi	29,285	21.99
Majority			15,478	11.62
Turnout			133,179	83.78	+4.26
	TDP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kothapalli Samuel Jawahar	74,661	51.88
	YSRCP	Taneti Vanitha	61,916	43.02
Majority			12,745	8.86
Turnout			143,910	85.30	+1.52
	TDP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Taneti Vanitha	79,892	52.35
	TDP	Vangalapudi Anitha	54,644	35.80
	BSP	Ravi Kumar Murthy Tamballapalli	11,677	7.65
Majority			25,248	16.54
Turnout			1,52,611	86.41	0.1
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

2024

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Muppidi Venkateswara Rao	92,743	58.29
	YSRCP	Talari Venkat Rao	58,797	36.95
	INC	Arigela Aruna Kumari	1,897	1.19
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,465	1.55
Majority			33,946	21.34
Turnout			1,59,111
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly