Gajwel | |
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Constituency No. 42 for the Telangana Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Telangana |
District | Medak, Siddipet |
Established | 1951 |
Total electors | 232,417 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
3rd Telangana Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Bharat Rashtra Samithi |
Gajwel Assembly constituency is a constituency of the Telangana Legislative Assembly, India. It is part of Medak Lok Sabha constituency. [1] [2] It is one of the ten constituencies in the former Medak district, located approximately 64 km from the state capital, Hyderabad.
Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, the first Chief Minister of Telangana, has been the MLA since 2014.
The assembly constituency presently comprises the following mandals:
Mandal | District |
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Gajwel | Siddipet |
Toopran | Medak |
Kondapaka | Siddipet |
Wargal | |
Mulug | |
Jagadevpur | Siddipet |
Members of Legislative Assembly who represented Gajwel: [3]
Year | Name [4] | Party | |
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1952 | Pendem Vasudevu | Peoples Democratic Front | |
1957 | J. B. Muthyal Rao | Indian National Congress | |
1962 | Gajwel Saidiah | Independent | |
1967 | J. B. Muthyal Rao | Indian National Congress | |
1972 | Gajwel Saidiah | ||
1978 | Indian National Congress | ||
1983 | Allam Sailu | Telugu Desam Party | |
1985 | B. Sanjeeva Rao | ||
1989 | Dr. J. Geeta Reddy | Indian National Congress | |
1994 | G. Vijaya Rama Rao | Telugu Desam Party | |
1999 | B. Sanjeeva Rao | ||
2004 | Dr. J. Geeta Reddy | Indian National Congress | |
2009 | Tumkunta Narsa Reddy | ||
2014 | K. Chandrashekar Rao | Bharat Rashtra Samithi | |
2018 | |||
2023 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BRS | Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao | 111,684 | 48.05 | 12.4 | |
BJP | Etela Rajender | 66,653 | 28.68 | New | |
INC | Thoomkunta Narsa Reddy | 32,568 | 14.01 | 18.35 | |
BSP | Jakkani Sanjay Kumar | 2,743 | 1.18 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 832 | 0.36 | ||
Majority | 45,031 | 19.37 | −8.72 | ||
Turnout | 2,32,417 | ||||
BRS hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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TRS | K. Chandrashekar Rao | 125,444 | 60.45 | 16.39 | |
INC | Pratap Reddy Vanteru | 67,154 | 32.36 | 15.04 | |
Independent | Kante Sayanna | 3,353 | 1.62 | New | |
Independent | Bitla Venkateshwerlu | 1,636 | 0.79 | New | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,624 | 0.78 | 0.03 | |
Majority | 58,290 | 28.09 | |||
Turnout | 2,07,520 | 88.97 | |||
TRS hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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TRS | K. Chandrashekar Rao | 86,694 | 44.06 | ||
TDP | Pratap Reddy Vanteru | 67,303 | 34.21 | ||
INC | Tumkunta Narsa Reddy | 34,085 | 17.32 | ||
TPS | Nallanagula Venkatesham | 3,127 | 1.59 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,592 | 0.81 | ||
Majority | 19,391 | 9.85 | |||
Turnout | 1,96,759 | 84.22 | |||
TRS gain from INC | Swing |
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