Eluru LS Profile

26 Mar, 2019 16:48 IST|Sakshi
Eluru LS Profile

Eluru: Eluru Parliamentary Constituency is located in West Godavari & Krishna districts of Andhra Pradesh.

As per the estimates of 2011 census, out of total 20,02,658 population 84.55% is rural and 15.45% is urban population.

According to the voter list of 2018, there are 1,39,0477 voters and 1633 polling stations in this constituency. Voter turnout in the 2014 Parliamentary election was 84.27% where as it was 84.59% in 2009 Parliamentary elections.

The INC, the TDP and the YSRCP got 0.98%, 51.88% and 43.4% votes respectively in 2014-parliamentary election while The BJP, the INC and the TDP got 0.77%, 39.28% and 35.31% in 2009-parliamentary election respectively.

Denduluru, Nuzvid, Eluru, Kaikalur, Polavaram, Unguturu, Chintalapudi are the assembly segments that come under Eluru Parliamentary Constituency.

Maganti Venkateswara Rao (Babu) (TDP) is the present Lok Sabha MP of Eluru Parliamentary Constituency. He beat Thota Chandra Sekhar of the YSR Congress Party who gave him a tough fight . While Maganti Babu polled 623,471 votes Thota Chandrasekhar polled 521,545 votes in 2014, thus changing the TDP and Congress equations and putting YSRCP on the Eluru constituency map.

The 2019 YSRCP Eluru Parliamentary candidate is a Velma’s, Kotagiri Sridhar, son of former minister, who will be pitted against incumbent Maganti Venkateswara Rao who has already served as an MP twice. He was also a minister in former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy's cabinet between 2004 and 2009 when he was in the Congress.

Kotagiri Sridhar is the son of former minister Kotagiri Vidyadhar Rao who was very close to late NTR. Though he is a new entrant to politics , he has a thorough understanding of the developments in West Godavari district and has a his father's good will to support him in the Eluru Parliamentary elections 2019.

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