Pithani Satyanarayana

Satyanarayana Pithani is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is a member of Telugu Desam Party. He has been elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly representing the Achanta Assembly constituency in 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections.^[1][2][3]

Satyanarayana Pithani
Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Cherukuvada Sri Ranganadha Raju
Constituency	Achanta
In office 2009–2019
Preceded by	Peethala Sujatha
Personal details
Nationality	India
Political party	Telugu Desam Party
Occupation	Politician

Political career

Pithani was elected as the MLA for the Achanta Assembly constituency, representing the Indian National Congress in the 2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections.^[4] He served as a minister for social welfare, roads and buildings in the Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet.^[5]

He joined the Telugu Desam Party in 2014 and was appointed the minister for labour and employment in N. Chandrababu Naidu cabinet.^[6] In the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, he was re-elected as the MLA for the Achanta constituency.^[1]

Election results

2009

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Achanta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Satyanarayana Pithani	54,903	46.24	+2.33
	TDP	Karri Radha Krishna Reddy	39,148	32.97	−16.07
	PRP	Kudupudi Srinivasa Rao	16,770	14.12
Majority			15,755	13.27
Turnout			118,745	83.40	+8.42
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

2014

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Achanta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Satyanarayana Pithani	63,549	48.66
	YSRCP	Mudnuri Prasad Raju	59,629	45.66
Majority			3,920	3.00
Turnout			130,599	81.82	−1.58
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Achanta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Cherukuvada Sri Ranganadha Raju	66,494	47.92
	TDP	Satyanarayana Pithani	53,608	38.64
	JSP	Javvadhi Venkata Vijayaram	13,993	10.09
Majority			12,886	9.29
Turnout			138,747	79.63	−2.19
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

2024

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Achanta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Satyanarayana Pithani	85,402	56.73
	YSRCP	Cherukuvada Sri Ranganadha Raju	58,848	39.09
	INC	Nekkanti Venkata Satyanarayana	1,872	1.24
	NOTA	None Of The Above	1,673	1.11
Majority			26,554
Turnout			1,50,541
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing