The 2024 Indian general election was held in Andhra Pradesh on 13 May 2024 to elect 25 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. Legislative assembly elections were held simultaneously with the general election.
Election schedule
On 16 March 2024, the Election Commission of India announced the schedule for the 2024 Indian general election, with Andhra Pradesh scheduled to vote during the fourth phase on 13 May 2024. Poll event Phase IV Notification date 18 April Last date for filing nomination 25 April Scrutiny of nomination 26 April Last Date for withdrawal of nomination 29 April Date of poll 13 May Date of counting of votes/Result 4 June No. of constituencies 25
Parties and alliances
YSR Congress Party
Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested YSR Congress Party Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy 25
National Democratic Alliance
Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested Telugu Desam Party N. Chandrababu Naidu 17 Bharatiya Janata Party Daggubati Purandeswari 6 Janasena Party Pawan Kalyan 2 Total 25
Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested Indian National Congress Y. S. Sharmila 23 Communist Party of India (Marxist) V. Srinivasa Rao 1 Communist Party of India K. Ramakrishna 1 Total 25
Candidates ConstituencyYSRCPNDAINDIA # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate 1 Araku (ST) rowspan="25" YCP Gumma Thanuja Rani BJP Kothapalli Geetha CPI(M) Appala Narsa 2 Srikakulam YCP Perada Tilak TDP Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu rowspan="11" INC Pedada Parameswara Rao 3 Vizianagaram YCP Bellana Chandra Sekhar TDP Kalisetti Appala Naidu INC Bobbili Srinu 4 Visakhapatnam YCP Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi TDP Mathukumilli Bharat INC Pulusu Satyanarayana Reddy 5 Anakapalli YCP Budi Mutyala Naidu BJP C. M. Ramesh INC Vegi Venkatesh 6 Kakinada YCP Chalamalasetti Sunil JSP Tangella Uday Srinivas INC M. M. Pallam Raju 7 Amalapuram (SC) YCP Rapaka Vara Prasada Rao TDP Ganti Harish Madhur INC Janga Goutham 8 Rajahmundry YCP Guduri Srinivas BJP Daggubati Purandeswari INC Gidugu Rudra Raju 9 Narasapuram YCP Guduri Umabala BJP Srinivas Verma INC Korlapati Brahmananda Rao Naidu 10 Eluru YCP Karumuri Sunil Kumar TDP Putta Mahesh Kumar INC Lavanya Kumari 11 Machilipatnam YCP Simhadri Chandrasekhar Rao JSP Vallabhaneni Balashowry INC Gollu Krishna 12 Vijayawada YCP Kesineni Srinivas TDP Kesineni Sivanath INC Valluru Bhargav 13 Guntur YCP Kilari Venkata Rosaiah TDP Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani CPI Jangala Ajay Kumar 14 Narasaraopet YCP Poluboina Anilkumar Yadav TDP Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu rowspan="12" INC Garnepudi Alexander Sudhakar 15 Bapatla (SC) YCP Nandigam Suresh TDP Tenneti Krishna Prasad INC Jesudasu Seelam 16 Ongole YCP Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy TDP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy INC Eda Sudhakara Reddy 17 Nandyal YCP Pocha Brahmananda Reddy TDP Byreddy Sabari INC Jangiti Lakshmi Narasimha Yadav 18 Kurnoolu YCP B. Y. Ramaiah TDP Panchalingala Nagaraju INC P. G. Ram Pullaiah Yadav 19 Anantapur YCP Malagundla Sankaranarayana TDP Ambika Lakshminarayana INC Mallikarjun Vajjala 20 Hindupur YCP J. Shantha TDP B. K. Parthasarathi INC B. A. Samad Shaheen 21 Kadapa YCP Y. S. Avinash Reddy TDP Chadipiralla Bhupesh Reddy INC Y. S. Sharmila 22 Nellore YCP V. Vijaysai Reddy TDP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy INC Koppula Raju 23 Tirupati (SC) YCP Maddila Gurumoorthy BJP Velagapalli Varaprasad Rao INC Chinta Mohan 24 Rajampet YCP P. V. Midhun Reddy BJP Kiran Kumar Reddy INC S K Basheed 25 Chittoor (SC) YCP N. Reddeppa TDP Daggumalla Prasada Rao INC M Jagapathi
Campaign
According to an analysis, special category status for state, capital issue, Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy's murder, attack on Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, and cases against N. Chandrababu Naidu are the key issues. Candidates are campaigning by interacting with common people and taking part in their work such as making tea, ironing clothes and weighing vegetables. Movies and songs to promote own political party denigrate other party leaders have become common by main parties in the state. The use of social media to amplify the reach of such content to the voter has become a core strategy of parties.
Surveys and polls
Opinion polls
Exit polls
Voter turnout Constituency Poll date Turnout Swing 1 Araku (ST) 13 May 2024 73.68% 2.53 2 Srikakulam 74.43% 0.05 3 Vizianagaram 81.05% 0.23 4 Visakhapatnam 71.11% 3.33 5 Anakapalli 82.03% 0.49 6 Kakinada 80.30% 1.22 7 Amalapuram (SC) 83.85% 0.79 8 Rajahmundry 80.93% 0.57 9 Narasapuram 82.59% 0.69 10 Eluru 83.68% 0.15 11 Machilipatnam 84.05% 0.49 12 Vijayawada 79.37% 2.07 13 Guntur 78.81% 0.40 14 Narasaraopet 85.65% 0.60 15 Bapatla (SC) 85.48% 0.99 16 Ongole 87.06% 0.71 17 Nandyal 80.61% 0.46 18 Kurnool 76.80% 1.11 19 Anantapur 80.51% 0.50 20 Hindupur 84.70% 0.21 21 Kadapa 79.57% 0.89 22 Nellore 79.05% 1.99 23 Tirupati (SC) 79.10% 0.66 24 Rajampet 79.09% 0.17 25 Chittoor (SC) 85.77% 1.53
Results
Results by alliance or party Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− rowspan="4" NDA TDP 12,569,179 37.79 2.40 17 16 13 BJP 3,750,687 11.28 10.30 6 3 3 JSP 1,454,138 4.30 1.57 2 2 2 Total 17,774,004 53.37 6.33 25 21 18 YSRCP 13,174,874 39.61 10.28 25 4 18 rowspan="4" INDIA INC 886,165 2.66 1.35 23 0 CPI(M) 119,016 0.36 0.24 1 0 CPI 8,317 0.03 0.06 1 0 Total 1,013,498 3.05 1.53 25 0 Others 141 0 IND 199 0 NOTA 398,777 1.20 0.30 Total 100% - 454 25 -
Results by constituency +Source: Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Poll % Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % 1 Araku (ST) 74.87 Gumma Thanuja Rani YCP 4,77,005 40.96 Kothapalli Geetha BJP 4,26,425 36.62 50,580 4.34 2 Srikakulam 75.37 K. Ram Mohan Naidu TDP 7,54,328 61.05 Perada Tilak YCP 4,26,427 34.51 3,27,901 26.54 3 Vizianagaram 82.19 Appala Naidu Kalisetti TDP 7,43,113 57.20 Bellana Chandra Sekhar YCP 4,93,762 38.00 2,49,351 19.20 4 Visakhapatnam 72.03 Mathukumilli Bharat TDP 9,07,467 65.42 Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi YCP 4,03,220 29.07 5,04,247 36.35 5 Anakapalle 82.97 C. M. Ramesh BJP 7,62,069 57.50 Budi Mutyala Naidu YCP 4,65,539 35.13 2,96,530 22.37 6 Kakinada 81.43 Tangella Uday Srinivas JSP 7,29,699 54.87 Chalamalasetti Sunil YCP 5,00,208 37.62 2,29,491 17.25 7 Amalapuram (SC) 84.97 Ganti Harish Madhur TDP 7,96,981 61.25 Rapaka Vara Prasada Rao YCP 4,54,785 34.95 3,42,196 26.30 8 Rajahmundry 81.85 Daggubati Purandeswari BJP 7,26,515 54.82 Guduri Srinivas YCP 4,87,376 36.77 2,39,139 18.05 9 Narasapuram 83.63 Bhupathi Srinivasa Varma BJP 7,07,343 57.46 Guduri Umabala YCP 4,30,541 34.98 2,76,802 22.48 10 Eluru 84.73 Putta Mahesh Kumar TDP 7,46,351 54.00 Karumuri Sunilkumar Yadav YCP 5,64,494 40.84 1,81,857 13.16 11 Machilipatnam 85.42 Vallabhaneni Balashowry JSP 7,24,439 55.22 Simhadri Chandrasekhar Rao YCP 5,01,260 38.21 2,23,179 17.01 12 Vijayawada 80.44 Kesineni Sivanath TDP 7,94,154 58.21 Kesineni Srinivas YCP 5,12,069 37.53 2,82,085 20.68 13 Guntur 80.16 Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani TDP 8,64,948 60.68 Kilari Venkata Rosaiah YCP 5,20253 36.50 3,44,695 24.18 14 Narasaraopet 86.68 Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu TDP 8,07,996 53.88 Poluboina Anilkumar Yadav YCP 6,48,267 43.23 1,59,729 10.65 15 Bapatla (SC) 86.57 Krishna Prasad Tenneti TDP 7,17,493 55.16 Nandigam Suresh YCP 5,09,462 39.17 2,08,031 15.99 16 Ongole 88.32 Magunta S. Reddy TDP 7,01,894 49.35 Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy YCP 6,51,695 45.82 50,199 3.53 17 Nandyal 81.82 Byreddy Shabari TDP 7,01,131 49.92 Pocha Brahmananda Reddy YCP 5,89,156 41.95 1,11,975 7.97 18 Kurnool 77.69 Bastipati Nagaraju TDP 6,58,914 49.51 B. Y. Ramaiah YCP 5,47,616 41.15 1,11,298 8.36 19 Anantapur 81.70 Ambika G. L Valmiki TDP 7,68,245 53.33 M. Sankaranarayana YCP 5,79,690 40.24 1,88,555 13.09 20 Hindupur 85.91 B. K. Parthasarathi TDP 7,25,534 51.23 J. Shantha YCP 5,93,107 41.88 1,32,427 9.35 21 Kadapa 80.89 Y. S. Avinash Reddy YCP 6,05,143 45.78 Chadipiralla Bhupesh Reddy TDP 5,42,448 41.03 62,695 4.75 22 Nellore 80.49 Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy TDP 7,66,202 55.70 V. Vijaysai Reddy YCP 5,20,300 37.82 2,45,902 17.88 23 Tirupati (SC) 80.19 Maddila Gurumoorthy YCP 6,32,228 45.73 Velagapalli Varaprasad Rao BJP 6,17,659 44.67 14,569 1.06 24 Rajampet 80.24 P. V. Midhun Reddy YCP 6,44,844 48.38 Kiran Kumar Reddy BJP 5,68,773 42.67 76,071 5.71 25 Chittoor (SC) 86.76 Daggumalla Prasada Rao TDP 7,78,071 54.84 N. Reddeppa YCP 5,57,592 39.30 2,20,479 15.54
Assembly segments-wise lead of parties
Party Assembly segments Current Position in the Assembly rowspan="4" NDA TDP 113 135 BJP 29 8 JSP 14 21 Total 156 164 YSRCP 19 11 Total 175 Assembly Seat wise leads