2021 Vijayawada Municipal Corporation election

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2021 Vijayawada Municipal Corporation election
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  2014 10 March 2021 2026  

All 64 elected seats in the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation
33 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Party YSRCP TDP CPI(M)
Last election19381
Seats won49141
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 30Decrease2.svg 24Steady2.svg

 Fourth partyFifth party
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Party JSP BJP
Last electionnew1
Seats won00
Seat changeSteady2.svgDecrease2.svg 1

Vijayawada Municipal Corporation 2021.svg

Mayor before election

Koneru Sreedhar
Telugu Desam Party

Elected Mayor

Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi
YSR Congress Party

The 2021 Vijayawada Municipal Corporation election was held on 10 March 2021 to elect 64 councillors of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation. [1] [2] The votes were counted and the results were declared on 14 March 2021. The YSR Congress Party emerged victorious and subsequently Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi was elected as the Mayor for the corporation. [3]

Contents

Election schedule

EventDate
Date for Nominations11 March 2020
Last Date for filing Nominations13 March 2020
Date for scrutiny of nominations14 March 2020
Date for commencement of withdrawal of candidature2 March 2021
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures and

publication of contesting candidates

3 March 2021
Date of poll10 March 2021
Date of re-poll, if any13 March 2021
Date of counting14 March 2021

Results by wards

The winners are as follows.https://sec.ap.gov.in/Doc21/Elected_Ward_Members_MunicipalCorporations.pdf

Results
WardWinner
#CandidateParty
1Vuddanti Sunitha YSR Congress Party
2Ambadipudi Nirmala Kumari YSR Congress Party
3Bhimisetty Pravallika YSR Congress Party
4Jasthi Sambasiva Rao Telugu Desam Party
5Ambedkar Kalapala YSR Congress Party
6Viyyapu Amarnath YSR Congress Party
7Merakanpalli Madhuri YSR Congress Party
8Usharani Chennupati Telugu Desam Party
9Chennupati Kanthisri Telugu Desam Party
10Aparna Devineni Telugu Desam Party
11Kesineni Swetha Telugu Desam Party
12Potluri Siva Sai Prasad Telugu Desam Party
13Mummaneni Venkata Prasad Telugu Desam Party
14Sambasiva Rao Chintala YSR Congress Party
15Bellam Durga YSR Congress Party
16Ummadisetti Radhika YSR Congress Party
17Thangirala Rami Reddy YSR Congress Party
18Venkata Satya Narayana YSR Congress Party
19Mohammed Rehana Nahid YSR Congress Party
20Adapa Seshagiri YSR Congress Party
21Puppala Narasa Kumari YSR Congress Party
22Konda Reddy Tatiparthi YSR Congress Party
23Nellibandla Balaswamy Telugu Desam Party
24Kukkala Anitha YSR Congress Party
25Banka Sakuntala Devi YSR Congress Party
26Vallabhaneni Rajeswari Telugu Desam Party
27Kondayagunta Malleswari YSR Congress Party
28Veeramachaneni Lalitha Telugu Desam Party
29Kongitala Lakshmipathi YSR Congress Party
30Bhimireddy Siva Venkata Janareddy YSR Congress Party
31Penumatsa Sirisha YSR Congress Party
32Channagiri Rama Mohana Rao Telugu Desam Party
33N D S Satyanarayana Murty Valluri YSR Congress Party
34Sivasakthi Nagendra Punyaseela Bandi YSR Congress Party
35Balasani Manimma YSR Congress Party
36Bali Govindu YSR Congress Party
37Mandepudi Chatarji YSR Congress Party
38Rahamathunnisa Shaik YSR Congress Party
39Gudivada Narendra Raghava YSR Congress Party
40Anjaneyareddy Yaradla YSR Congress Party
41Irfan Mohammed YSR Congress Party
42Chaitanya Reddy Padigapati YSR Congress Party
43Bapati Koti Reddy YSR Congress Party
44Ratna Kumari Mylavarapu YSR Congress Party
45Mylavarapu Madhuri Lavanya Telugu Desam Party
46 Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi YSR Congress Party
47Ganga Godavari YSR Congress Party
48Attaluri Adi Lakshmi YSR Congress Party
49Bulla Vijaya Kumar YSR Congress Party
50Boye Satya Babu Communist Party of India
51Marupilla Rajesh YSR Congress Party
52Ummadi Venkateswara Rao Telugu Desam Party
53Appaji Rao Mahadevu YSR Congress Party
54Abdul Aqeeb Arshad YSR Congress Party
55Seeramsetty Purnachandra Rao YSR Congress Party
56Chalapathi Rao Yalakala YSR Congress Party
57Esarapu Devi YSR Congress Party
58Avuthu Sri Sailaja YSR Congress Party
59Mohammed Shaheena Sulthana YSR Congress Party
60Kanchi Durga Telugu Desam Party
61Ummadi Ramadevi YSR Congress Party
62Alampuru Vijayalakshmi YSR Congress Party
63Modugula Thirupatamma YSR Congress Party
64Thirupatamma Yarragorla YSR Congress Party

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