Kovvur is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency.
Muppidi Venkateswara Rao is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party. As of 2019, there are a total of 176,409 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).
History It is considered a stronghold of TDP, which won all the election battles here since its inception in 1983 except in 1999 when congress won with sufficient majority. Currently, Taneti Vanita (YSR Congress) is the present Kovvur constituency's MLA, who won 2019 Assembly elections against Vangalapudi Anitha (TDP) with a majority of 25,248 votes.
Mandals
The three mandals that form the assembly constituency are:
Mandal Kovvur Chagallu Tallapudi
Members of the Legislative Assembly Year Member Political party1952 P. Sreeramachandra Rao 1955Alluri Bapineedu 1962 1967 K. B. Rayudu 1972 Alla Hanumantha Rao 1978 Munshi Abdul Aziz 1983Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao 1985 1989 1994 1999 G. S. Rao 2004 Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao 2009 T. V. Rama Rao 2014 K. S. Jawahar 2019 Taneti Vanitha 2024 Muppidi Venkateswara Rao
Election results 1952
1955
1962
1967
1972
1978
1983
1985
1989
1994
1999
2004
2009
2014
2019
2024
See also List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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