Tekkali Assembly constituency

Tekkali 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]

Tekkali
Constituency No. 3 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Location of Tekkali 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	222,222
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kinjarapu Atchannaidu
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora was the first MLA from the constituency. Kinjarapu Atchannaidu 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 222,222 electors in the constituency.^{[4][needs update]} The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).^[5]

Mandals

The four mandals that form the assembly constituency.^[2]

Mandals
Nandigam
Tekkali
Santha Bommali
Kotabommali

Mandals in Tekkali Assembly constituency

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Political party
1952	Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora		Independent
1955			Indian National Congress
1962	Ronanki Satyanarayana		Swatantra Party
1967	N. Ramulu
1972	Sattaru Lokanadham Naidu		Indian National Congress
1978	Bammaidi Narayanaswami		Janata Party
1983	Attada Janardhana Rao		Telugu Desam Party
1985	Saroja Varada
1989	Duvvada Nagavali
1994	N. T. Rama Rao
1995 by-election	Appayya Dora Hanumanthu
1999	Korla Revatipathi
2004	Appayya Dora Hanumanthu		Indian National Congress
2009	Korla Revatipathi
2009 by-election	Korla Bharathi
2014	Kinjarapu Atchannaidu		Telugu Desam Party
2019
2024

Election results

2024

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tekkali

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kinjarapu Atchannaidu	107,923	55.71
	YSRCP	Duvvada Srinivas	73,488	37.94
	INC	Killi Krupa Rani	2,684	1.39
	NOTA	None of the above	7,342	3.79
Majority			34,435	17.77
Turnout			1,93,713
	TDP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tekkali

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kinjarapu Atchannaidu	87,658	50.5	0.4
	YSRCP	Perada Tilak	79,113	45.6	0.07
	JSP	Kaniti Kiran Kumar	2810	2	New
	INC	Chintada Dileep Kumar	1743	1.0	0.2
Majority			8,545	4.9	0.3
Turnout			1,73,648	78.5	0.1
	TDP hold		Swing	0.17

2014

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tekkali

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kinjarapu Atchannaidu	81,167	50.9	17.5
	YSRCP	Duvvada Srinivas	72,780	45.67	New
	BSP	Lasa Someswara Rao	2,137	1.3	New
	INC	Killi Rammohana Rao	1,849	1.2	33.6
Majority			8,387	5.2	3.8
Turnout			160,394	78.4	2.4
	TDP gain from INC		Swing	25.5

2009

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tekkali

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dr. Revatipathi Korla	47,513	34.8	12.9
	TDP	Kinjarapu Atchannaidu	45,620	33.4	2.3
	PRP	Duvvada Srinivas	36,552	26.8	New
Majority			1,893	1.4	15.3
Turnout			136,450	76.0	3.0
	INC hold		Swing	7.6

2004

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Tekkali

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. D. Hanumanthu	49,480	47.7	2.1
	TDP	L. L. Naidu	32,209	31.1	21.0
Majority			17,271	16.7	10.4
Turnout			1,03,491	73.0	6.7
	INC gain from TDP		Swing	11.55

1952

1952 Madras State Legislative Assembly election: Tekkali^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora	9,113	27.85%
	INC	Bandi Kurmanna	8,628	26.37%	26.37%
	KLP	Attada Krishnamurthi	6,795	20.77%
	CPI	Bandalam Gavrayya	5,341	16.32%
	KMPP	Prabas Chandra Sathapathi	2,840	8.68%
Margin of victory			485	1.48%
Turnout			32,717	53.46%
Registered electors			61,196
	Independent win (new seat)

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly