Puttur, Andhra Pradesh Assembly constituency

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Puttur
Former constituency for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country India
Region South India
State Andhra Pradesh
District Chittoor
Established1951
Abolished2008
ReservationNone

Puttur Assembly constituency was an Assembly constituency of the Madras Legislative Assembly until States Reorganisation Act, 1956 transferred it to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It was one of constituencies in Chittoor district.

Contents

Overview

It was part of the Chittoor Lok Sabha constituency.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Madras State

Andhra State

Andhra Pradesh

YearMemberPolitical party
1962 Tarimela Nagireddy Communist Party of India
1967G. Sivaiah Communist Party of India
1972Elavarthi Gopal Raju Indian National Congress
1978KB Siddaiah Janata Party [7]
1983 Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu Telugu Desam Party
1985 Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu Telugu Desam Party
1989 Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu Telugu Desam Party
1994 Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu Telugu Desam Party
1999Reddivari Rajasekhar Reddy Telugu Desam Party
2004 Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu Indian National Congress

2008 onwards: Nagari. This Assembly constituency was merged with neighbouring Nagari seat. The longest serving legislator of this erstwhile Puttur constituency Mr.Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu got elected from Nagari in 2009 elections and lost against Actress turned Politician RK Roja in 2014 elections. [8]

Election results

2004

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Puttur [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Gali Muddhu Krishnama Naidu 65,788 62.49
TDP Kandati Sankar Reddy35,83734.04
Margin of victory29,95128.45
Turnout 1,05,28475.73
Registered electors 1,39,019
INC gain from TDP Swing

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Puttur [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
KMPP Kumaraswami Rajah Bahadur 37,500 76.80%
INC B. Ramakrishna Raju11,33123.20%23.20%
Margin of victory26,16953.59%
Turnout 48,83158.56%
Registered electors 83,392
KMPP win (new seat)

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