Visakhapatnam South Assembly constituency

Visakhapatnam South
Visakhapatnam South
Constituency No. 22 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Location of Visakhapatnam South Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Visakhapatnam
LS constituency	Visakhapatnam
Established	2008
Total electors	209,186
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Vacant

Visakhapatnam South Assembly constituency is a constituency in Visakhapatnam 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 the Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency.[2]

Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party and subsequently extended support to YSR Congress Party.[3] As of 2019, there were a total of 209,186 electors in the constituency.[4] The constituency was established in 2008, as per the Delimitation Orders (2008).

Mandals

The mandal and wards that form the assembly constituency are:[2]

Mandal
Visakhapatnam (Urban) Mandal (Part) Visakhapatnam (M.Corp) Ward No. 12 to 34, 42 to 43 and 46 to 48

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Visakhapatnam South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao	45,971	35.66
	PRP	Kola Guruvulu	45,630	35.40
	TDP	Ganesh Kumar Vasupalli	24,208	18.78
	BJP	Challa Mahalakshmi	2,128	1.65
Majority			341	0.26
Turnout			128,907	73.84
	INC win (new seat)

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Visakhapatnam South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Ganesh Kumar Vasupalli	66,686	51.45
	YSRCP	Kola Guruvulu	48,370	37.32
Majority			18,316	14.13
Turnout			129,613	65.65	-8.19
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Visakhapatnam South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	TDP	Ganesh Kumar Vasupalli	52,172	41.5
	YSRCP	Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao	48,443	38.54
	JSP	Gampala Giridhar	18,119	14.41
Majority			3,729	2.96
Turnout
	TDP hold		Swing

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Visakhapatnam South
Party			Votes
	JSP	Vamsi Krishna Srinivas Yadav
	YSRCP	Ganesh Kumar Vasupalli
	INC	GANGIREDLA VEERA VENKATA HARIKA
	NOTA	None Of The Above
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

"Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
"Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. 17 December 2018. pp. 17, 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
"Assembly Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
"Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.