Adilabad Assembly constituency

Adilabad
Constituency No. 7 for the Telangana Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Telangana
District	Adilabad
LS constituency	Adilabad
Established	1951
Total electors	1,86,348
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
3rd Telangana Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Payal Shankar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2023

Adilabad is a constituency of the Telangana Legislative Assembly, India. It is one of the two constituencies in Adilabad district, Telangana. It comes under Adilabad Lok Sabha constituency^[1] along with six other assembly constituencies. The current MLA is Payal Shankar.^[2]

Mandals

The assembly constituency presently comprises the following mandals:

Mandal
Adilabad
Jainad
Bela

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year of election	MLA	Political party		Vots Mejority
1952	Daji Shanker Rao		People's Democratic Front	18519
1957	Ranghanath Rao		People's Democratic Front	15230
1962	Vittal Rao Deshpande		Independent	13947
1967	Kastala Ramakrishna		Communist Party of India	17881
1972	Masood Ahmed		Indian National Congress	30918
1978	Chilukuri Ramachandra Reddy		Independent	28905
1983	Chilukuri Vaman Reddy		Independent	26871
1985	Chilukuri Ramachandra Reddy		Independent	36170
1989			Indian National Congress
1994	Chilukuri Vaman Reddy		Telugu Desam Party
1999	Padala Bhumanna		Independent
2004	Chilukuri Ramachandra Reddy		Indian National Congress
2009	Jogu Ramanna		Telugu Desam Party
2012^			Telangana Rashtra Samithi
2014
2018
2023	Payal Shankar		Bharatiya Janata Party

^by-election

Election results

Telangana Legislative Assembly election, 2023

Telangana Assembly Elections, 2023: Adilabad

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Payal Shankar	67,608	35.84	+7.22
	BRS	Jogu Ramanna	60,916	32.29	−12.37
	INC	Kandi Srinivas Reddy	47,724	25.30	+5.88
	NOTA	None of the Above	592	0.31
Majority			6,692	3.55
Turnout			1,88,652
	BJP gain from BRS		Swing

Telangana Legislative Assembly election, 2018

2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election: Adilabad^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TRS	Jogu Ramanna	74,050	44.66	+3.50
	BJP	Payal Shankar	47,444	28.62	−2.24
	INC	Gandrath Sujatha	32,200	19.42	−5.50
	Rajyadhikara Party	Kothapelly Narayana	4,125	2.49
	BSP	Eerla Satyanarayana	1,352	0.82
	NOTA	None of the above	1,149	0.69
Majority			26,606	16.04
Turnout			1,65,793	82.36
	TRS hold		Swing

Telangana Legislative Assembly election, 2014

2014 Telangana Legislative Assembly election: Adilabad^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TRS	Jogu Ramanna	58,705	40.92
	BJP	Payal Shankar	43,994	30.66
	INC	Bhargav Deshpande	30,298	21.12
	NOTA	None of the Above	864	0..60
Majority			14,711	10.26
Turnout			1,43,479	64.26
	TRS hold		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of Telangana Legislative Assembly

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
2. "Telangana Assembly Election Results 2023: Full list of BJP winning candidates". Hindustan Times. 3 December 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
3. "Telangana General Legislative Election 2018 - Statistical Report". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
4. "Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, 2014". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 14 September 2021.

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