Kurupam is a Scheduled Tribe reserved constituency in Parvathipuram Manyam district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India.[1] It is one of the seven assembly segments of Araku Lok Sabha constituency.[2]
Jagadeeswari Thoyaka is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party.[3] As of 2019, there are a total of 183,830 electors in the constituency.[4][needs update] The constituency was established in 2008, as per the Delimitation Orders (2008).
The five mandals that form the assembly constituency are:[2]
| Mandal |
|---|
| Kurupam |
| Gummalaxmipuram |
| Jiyyammavalasa |
| Komarada |
| Garugubilli |
| Year | Member | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Jagadeeswari Thoyaka | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 2019 | Pushpasreevani Pamula | YSR Congress Party | |
| 2014 | |||
| 2009 | Veera Vara Todarmal Janardhan Thatraj | Indian National Congress | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Janardhan Thatraj Veeravaratodramala | 48,493 | 41.4 | ||
| PRP | Nimmaka Jayakrishna | 33,440 | 28.6 | ||
| CPI(M) | Kolaka Laxmana Murthy | 23,707 | 20.3 | ||
| BJP | Nimmaka Vasudeva Rao | 4,471 | 3.8 | ||
| BSP | Puvvala Saraswathi | 2,584 | 2.2 | ||
| Majority | 15,053 | 12.9 | |||
| Turnout | 1,17,104 | 72.0 | |||
| INC win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSRCP | Pushpasreevani Pamula | 55,435 | 42.3 | ||
| TDP | Janardhan Thatraj Veeravaratodramala | 36,532 | 27.7 | ||
| Majority | 19,083 | 14.3 |  1.4
| ||
| Turnout | 1,33,254 | 75.7 | 3.7
| ||
| YSRCP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSRCP | Pushpasreevani Pamula | 74,527 | 53.7 | 11.4
| |
| TDP | Janardhan Thatraj Veeravaratodramala | 47,925 | 34.6 | 6.9
| |
| CPI(M) | Avinash Kumar Kolaka | 8,605 | 6.2 | 1.9
| |
| BJP | Nimmaka Jayaraju | 4,204 | 3.0 | New | |
| INC | Nimmaka Simhachalam | 2,204 | 1.6 |  0.4
| |
| Majority | 26,602 | 19.2 | 4.9
| ||
| Turnout | 1,38,723 | 77.8 | 2.1
| ||
| YSRCP hold | Swing | 2.25
|
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Jagadeeswari Thoyaka | 83,355 | 53.68 | ||
| YSRCP | Pushpasreevani Pamula | 59,855 | 38.54 | ||
| CPI(M) | Mandangi Ramana | 3,923 | 2.53 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 4,761 | 3.07 | ||
| Majority | 23,500 | 15.14 | |||
| Turnout | 1,55,291 | ||||
| TDP gain from YSRCP | Swing | ||||
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