Araku Lok Sabha constituency

Araku AP-1
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Araku Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Palakonda Kurupam Parvathipuram Salur Araku Valley Paderu Rampachodavaram
Established	2008
Reservation	ST
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Gumma Thanuja Rani
Party	YSRCP
Elected year	2024

Araku is one of the twenty-five lok sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. As per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order (2008), it was formed as a reserved constituency for the Scheduled tribes, comprising seven assembly segments and belongs to Alluri Sitharama Raju district and Parvathipuram Manyam district s . ^{[1] [2]}

Assembly Segments

The seven Assembly segments of Araku Lok Sabha constituency are: ^[1]

#	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
10	Palakonda (ST)	Parvathipuram	Nimmaka Jaya Krishna		JSP		BJP
11	Kurupam (ST)		Jagadeeswari Thoyaka		TDP		BJP
12	Parvathipuram (SC)		Bonela Vijaya Chandra		TDP		BJP
13	Saluru (ST)		Gummadi Sandhya Rani		TDP		BJP
28	Araku Valley (ST)	Alluri Sitharama Raju	Regam Matyalingam		YSRCP		YSRCP
29	Paderu (ST)		Matsyarasa Visweswara Raju		YSRCP		YSRCP
53	Rampachodavaram (ST)		Miryala Sirisha Devi		TDP		YSRCP

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952-2009 : See Parvathipuram
2009	Kishore Chandra Deo		Indian National Congress
2014	Kothapalli Geetha		YSR Congress Party
2019	Goddeti Madhavi
2024	Gumma Thanuja Rani

Election results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Araku

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Gumma Thanuja Rani	477,005	40.96	11.18
	BJP	Kothapalli Geetha	426,425	36.62	34.96
	CPI(M)	Appalanarasa Pachipenta	123,129	10.57	10.57
	NOTA	None of the above	50,470	4.33	0.12
Majority			50,580	4.34	16.44
Turnout			1,164,445	74.90	0.87
	YSRCP hold		Swing

General Election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Araku ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Goddeti Madhavi	562,190	52.14	6.93
	TDP	Kishore Chandra Deo	338,101	31.36	3.85
	NOTA	None of the above	47,977	4.45	2.64
	JSP	Gangulaiah Vampuru	42,794	3.97	N/A
	BJP	K. K. V. V. V. Satyanarayana Reddy	17,867	1.66	1.66
	INC	Shruti Devi Vyricherla	17,730	1.64	4.15
Majority			224,089	20.78	10.78
Turnout			10,74,538	74.03	2.53
Registered electors			14,51,418
	YSRCP hold		Swing

General Election 2014

2014 Indian general election: Araku ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Kothapalli Geetha	413,191	45.42	New
	TDP	Gummadi Sandhya Rani	321,793	35.38	35.38
	INC	Kishore Chandra Deo	52,884	5.81	39.68
	CPI(M)	Midiyam Baburao	38,898	4.26	16.94
	Independent	Kangala Baludora	23,251	2.55	N/A
	Independent	Chetti Sankararao	8,951	0.98	N/A
	AAP	Burjabariki Dhanaraju	8,569	0.94	New
	Independent	Sallangi Ratnam	7,688	0.85	N/A
	Independent	Biddika Ramaiah	7,587	0.83	N/A
	Independent	Illa Rami Reddy	5,692	0.63	0.90
	Independent	Vanugu Sankararao	4,614	0.51	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	16,532	1.82	N/A
Majority			91,398	10.04	14.25
Turnout			909,614	72.92	5.91
	YSRCP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 2009

2009 Indian general election: Araku

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kishore Chandra Deo	360,458	45.49
	CPI(M)	Midiyam Baburao	168,014	21.20
	PRP	Meenaka Simhachalam	128,649	16.24
	Independent	Jayalakshmi Shambudu	27,758	3.50
	BSP	Lake Raja Rao	24,331	3.07
	BJP	Kurusa Bojjaiah	23,093	2.91
	Independent	Appa Rao Kinjedi	15,851	2.00
	LSP	Vadigala Pentayya	13,886	1.75
	Independent	Illa Rami Reddy	12,086	1.53
	RJD	Gadugu Balayya Dora	10,450	1.32
	Independent	Arika Gumpa Swamy	7,791	0.98
Majority			192,444	24.29
Turnout			792,367	67.01
	INC win (new seat)

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. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
2. Patnaik, Santosh (24 May 2019). "TDP wand fails to do the trick in Visakha Agency". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 24 May 2019.
3. "General Election 2019 (Excluding Vellore PC)".
4. "Araku (Andhra Pradesh) Lok Sabha Election Results - Araku Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name".

External links

• Araku lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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