Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency

Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency is one of the twenty-five lok sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India.^[1] It comprises seven assembly segments it belongs to Krishna district and NTR district.^[2]

Machilipatnam
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Gannavaram Gudivada Pedana Machilipatnam Avanigadda Pamarru Penamaluru
Established	1952
Total electors	13,69,311
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Vallabhaneni Balashowry
Party	JSP
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following Legislative Assembly segments:^[3]

#	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
71	Gannavaram	Krishna(partial), N.T.R(partial)	Yarlagadda Venkata Rao		TDP		JSP
72	Gudivada	Krishna	Venigandla Ramu		TDP		JSP
74	Pedana		Kagitha Krishna Prasad		TDP		JSP
75	Machilipatnam		Kollu Ravindra		TDP		JSP
76	Avanigadda		Mandali Buddha Prasad		JSP		JSP
77	Pamarru(SC)		Varla Kumar Raja		TDP		JSP
78	Penamaluru		Bode Prasad		TDP		JSP

Source: Assembly segments of Parliamentary constituencies^[3]

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952	Sanaka Buchhikotaiah		Communist Party of India
1957	Mandali Venkata Krishna Rao		Indian National Congress
1962	Mandala Venkata Swamy Naidu		Independent
1967	Y. Ankineedu Prasad		Indian National Congress
1971	Nageswararao Meduri
1977	Maganti Ankineedu
1980
1984	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao
1989
1991	Kolusu Peda Reddaiah		Telugu Desam Party
1996	Kaikala Satyanarayana
1998	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao		Indian National Congress
1999	Ambati Brahmanaiah		Telugu Desam Party
2004	Badiga Ramakrishna		Indian National Congress
2009	Konakalla Narayana Rao		Telugu Desam Party
2014
2019	Vallabhaneni Balashowry		YSR Congress Party
2024			Janasena Party

Election results

General Election 1989

General Election, 1989: Machilipatnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao	354,533	52.06	+2.22
	TDP	Bopanna Gangadhara Chaudury	311,044	45.67	−2.50
Majority			43,489	6.39
Turnout			680,994	76.99	+1.20
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1991

General Election, 1991: Machilipatnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kolusu Peda Reddaiah Yadav	298,348	49.02	+3.35
	INC	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao	271,026	44.53	−7.53
Majority			27,322	4.49
Turnout			608,592	76.99	−7.99
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 1996

General Election, 1996: Machilipatnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kaikala Satyanarayana	275,713	39.57	−9.45
	INC	Kolusu Peda Reddaiah Yadav	194,206	27.87	−16.66
Majority			81,507	11.70
Turnout			696,785	69.50	+2.54
	TDP hold		Swing

General Election 1998

General Election, 1998: Machilipatnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao	355,030	51.28	+23.41
	TDP	Kaikala Satyanarayana	273,938	39.57
Majority			81,092	11.71
Turnout			692,370	69.69	+0.19
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 1999

General Election, 1999: Machilipatnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Ambati Brahmanaiah	387,533	54.44	+14.87
	INC	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao	304,537	42.78	−8.50
Majority			82,096	11.66
Turnout			711,867	70.73	+1.04
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2004

General Election, 2004: Machilipatnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Badiga Ramakrishna	387,127	51.25	+8.47
	TDP	Ambati Brahmanaiah	336,786	44.59	−9.85
	Independent	Subrahmanyeswara Yenduri Rao (Mani)	18,477	2.45
	Pyramid Party of India	Adapala Sivannarayana	6,201	0.82	−0.26
	Independent	Dodda Kameswara Rao	4,297	0.57
	TRS	B S Rao	2,426	0.32
Majority			50,341	6.66
Turnout			755,314	76.06	+5.33
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 2009

General Election, 2009: Machilipatnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Konakalla Narayana Rao	409,936	39.19	−5.40
	INC	Badiga Ramakrishna	397,480	38.00	−13.25
	PRP	C. Ramachandraiah	186,921	17.87
Majority			12,456	1.19
Turnout			1,045,905	83.60	+7.54
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Machilipatnam^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Konakalla Narayana Rao	587,280	51.47	+12.28
	YSRCP	Kolusu Parthasarathy	506,223	44.36
	INC	Sistla Ramesh	14,111	1.24
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,171	0.72
	JSP	Kammili Srinivas	7,692	0.67
Majority			81,057	7.11
Turnout			1,141,065	83.33	−0.27
	TDP hold		Swing

General Election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Machilipatnam^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Vallabhaneni Balashowry	571,436	46.02
	TDP	Konakalla Narayana Rao	511,295	41.18
	JSP	Bandreddy Ramu	113,292	9.12
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,077	1.13
	INC	Gollu Krishna	12,284	0.99
Majority			60,141	4.84
Turnout			1,245,552	84.54
Registered electors			1,473,347
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Machilipatnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JSP	Vallabhaneni Balashowry	724,439	55.22
	YSRCP	Simhadri Chandra Sekhar Rao	5,01,260	38.21
	INC	Gollu Krishna	31,825	2.43
	NOTA	None of the above	12,126	0.92
Majority			2,23,179	17.01
Turnout			13,15,489	85.42
	JSP gain from YSRCP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly