Srikakulam Assembly constituency

Srikakulam Assembly constituency is a constituency in Srikakulam 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 Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Srikakulam
Constituency No. 5 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Location of Srikakulam Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Srikakulam
Lok Sabha constituency	Srikakulam
Established	1951
Total electors	255,177
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Gondu Shankar Rao
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

Gondu Shankar 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 255,177 electors in the constituency.^{[4][needs update]} The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).

Mandals

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

Mandals
Srikakulam
Gara

Mandals in Srikakulam Assembly constituency

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Political party
1952	Killi Appala Naidu		Krishikar Lok Party
1955	Pasagada Suryanarayana		Independent politician
1962	Andhavarapu Thavitiah		Indian National Congress
1967	Tangi Satyanarayana		Swatantra Party
1972	Challa Lakshminarayana		Independent
1978			Janata Party
1983	Tangi Satyanarayana		Telugu Desam Party
1985	Appala Suryanarayana Gunda
1989
1994
1999
2004	Dharmana Prasada Rao		Indian National Congress
2009
2014	Gunda Lakshmi Devi		Telugu Desam Party
2019	Dharmana Prasada Rao		YSR Congress Party
2024	Gondu Shankar		Telugu Desam Party

Election results

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Srikakulam^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KLP	Killi Appala Naidu	17,668	15.55%
	KLP	Kavali Narayana	16,244	14.30%
	INC	Kottapalli Narasayya	16,222	14.28%	14.28%
	INC	Thammineni Paparao	15,028	13.23%	13.23%
	Independent	Gundu Surya Naidu	12,210	10.75%
	Independent	Nadimpalli Lingaraju	10,960	9.65%
	Socialist	Lolugu Sreeramulu Naiudu	9,453	8.32%
	Independent	Muddada Gurayya	6,524	5.74%
	Independent	S. P. S. Appalacharyulu	4,781	4.21%
	Independent	Ruppa Appalaswamy	4,542	4.00%
Margin of victory			1,424	1.25%
Turnout			1,13,632	80.72%
Registered electors			1,40,781
	win (new seat)

2004

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Srikakulam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dharmana Prasada Rao	69,168	52.8	9.3
	TDP	Appala Suryanarayana Gunda	61,941	47.2	6.4
Majority			7,227	5.5	4.4
Turnout			1,30,763	71.1	4.5
	INC gain from TDP		Swing	7.84

2009

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Srikakulam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dharmana Prasada Rao	56,457	38.8	14.0
	TDP	Appala Suryanarayana Gunda	51,987	35.8	11.4
	PRP	Kornu Nagarjun	28,553	19.6	New
Majority			4,470	3.1	2.4
Turnout			1,45,380	74.4	3.3
	INC hold		Swing	1.3

2014

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Srikakulam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Gunda Lakshmi Devi	88,814	54.3	18.5
	YSRCP	Dharmana Prasada Rao	64,683	39.5	New
	INC	Chowdari Satish	3,683	2.3	36.5
Majority			24,131	14.7	11.6
Turnout			1,64,523	72.2	2.2
	TDP gain from INC		Swing	27.5

2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Srikakulam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Dharmana Prasada Rao	84,084	48.3	8.8
	TDP	Gunda Lakshmi Devi	78,307	45.0	9.3
	JSP	Korada Sarveswara Rao	7,557	4.3	New
	INC	Chowdari Satish	1,827	1.1	1.2
	BJP	Challa Venkateswara Rao	1,340	0.8	New
Majority			5,777	3.3	11.4
Turnout			1,74,215	69.2	3.0
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing	9.05

2024

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Srikakulam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Gondu Shankar	117,091	60.93
	YSRCP	Dharmana Prasada Rao	64,570	33.6
	INC	Ambati Krishna Rao	4,353	2.27
	NOTA	None Of The Above	3,373	1.76
Majority			52,521	27.33
Turnout			1,92,168
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly