Anantapur Lok Sabha constituency

Ananthapuram
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Anantapur Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Rayadurg Uravakonda Guntakal Tadpatri Singanamala Anantapur Urban Kalyandurg
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Ambica G Lakshminarayana Valmiki
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

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

Most Successful parties from Anantapur Lok Sabha

1. INC (12 Times) (70%)
2. TDP (4 Times) (18%)
3. CPI (1 time) (6%)
4. YSRCP (1 time) (6%)

Assembly segments

Anantapur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following Legislative Assembly segments:^[2]

#	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
148	Rayadurg	Anantapur	Kalava Srinivasulu		TDP		TDP
149	Uravakonda		Payyavula Keshav		TDP		TDP
150	Guntakal		Gummanur Jayaram		TDP		TDP
151	Tadpatri		J.C.Ashmit Reddy		TDP		TDP
152	Singanamala (SC)		Bandaru Sravani Sree		TDP		TDP
153	Anantapur Urban		Daggupati Venkateswara Prasad		TDP		TDP
154	Kalyandurg		Amilineni Surendra Babu		TDP		TDP

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952	Paidi Lakshmayya		Indian National Congress
1957	T. Nagi Reddy		Communist Party of India
1962	Osman Ali Khan		Indian National Congress
1967	Ponnapati Antony Reddi
1971
1977	Darur Pullaiah
1980			Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Devineni Narayanaswami		Telugu Desam Party
1989	Anantha Venkata Reddy		Indian National Congress
1991
1996	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy
1998
1999	Kalava Srinivasulu		Telugu Desam Party
2004	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy		Indian National Congress
2009
2014	J. C. Diwakar Reddy		Telugu Desam Party
2019	Talari Rangaiah		YSR Congress Party
2024	Ambica G Lakshminarayana Valmiki		Telugu Desam Party

Election results

General Election 1989

General Election, 1989: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anantha Venkata Reddy	349,685	53.85	+15.97
	TDP	G. Ramanna Chowdary	290,203	44.69	−14.45
Majority			59,482	9.16
Turnout			649,375	64.05	+0.01
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 1991

General Election, 1991: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anantha Venkata Reddy	362,676	59.14	+5.29
	TDP	B.T.L.N. Chowdary	200,392	32.67	−12.02
Majority			162,284	26.47
Turnout			613,298	60.36	−3.69
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1996

General Election, 1996: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy	288,845	44.60	−14.54
	CPI	R.Rangappa	205,986	32.25
	NTRTDP(LP)	V Prabhakara Chowdary	94,485	14.79
Majority			82,859	12.35
Turnout			638,636	52.58	+7.78
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1998

General Election, 1998: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy	320,474	44.60	+3.05
	CPI	R.Ramakrishna	238,076	35.40	+3.15
	BJP	Veluri Kesava Chowdari	93,339	13.88
Majority			82,398	9.20
Turnout			672,528	55.44	+2.86
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1999

General Election, 1999: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kalava Srinivasulu	378,488	50.27	+14.87
	INC	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy	357,386	47.47	+3.17
Majority			21,102	2.80
Turnout			752,838	61.39	+5.95
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2004

General Election, 2004: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy	458,925	52.44	+4.97
	TDP	Kalava Srinivasulu	385,521	44.05	−6.22
	BSP	Nagabhushanam Gaddala	9,296	1.06
	Independent	Yatham Pothalaiah	7,102	0.81
	Pyramid Party of India	K Venkatesulu	6,232	0.71	−6.56
	TRS	A Jagan Mohan Rao	4,419	0.50
	Independent	B S Amarnath	3,640	0.42
Majority			73,404	8.39
Turnout			875,135	68.42	+5.43
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

General Election 2009

General Election, 2009: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy	457,876	45.78	−6.66
	TDP	Kalava Srinivasulu	379,955	37.99	−6.06
	PRP	G. S. Mansoor	102,047	10.20
	BJP	Ambati Rama Krishna Reddy	16,540	1.65
Majority			77,921	7.79
Turnout			1,000,208	70.86	+2.44
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 2014

General Election, 2014: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	J.C. Diwakar Reddy	606,509	50.33	−6.06
	YSRCP	Anantha Venkatarami Reddy	545,240	45.25
	INC	Anil Chowdary.P	16,659	1.38
Majority			61,269	5.08
Turnout			1,205,054	78.41	+7.55
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Talari Rangaiah	695,208	51.57	+6.51
	TDP	J. C. Pavan Kumar Reddy	553,780	41.08	−9.07
	INC	K. Rajiv Reddy	30,079	2.23
	CPI	D. Jagadeesh	20,294	1.51
	NOTA	None of the above	16,466	1.22
	BJP	Hamsa Devineni	7,604	0.56
Majority			141,428	10.53
Turnout			1348114	81.01	+2.60
Registered electors			16,64,160
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing	+7.78

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Ananthapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Ambica Valmiki	768,245	53.33
	YSRCP	Malagundla Sankaranarayana	5,79,690	40.24
	INC	Mallikarjuna Vajjala	43,217	3.00
	NOTA	None of the above	9,199	0.64
Majority			1,88,555	13.09
Turnout			14,45,498	81.70
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. 17 December 2018. p. 31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 31.

External links

• Anantapur lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule