Tekkali Assembly constituency is a constituency in Srikakulam 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 Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency.[2]
Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora was the first MLA from the constituency. Kinjarapu Atchannaidu 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 222,222 electors in the constituency.[4][needs update] The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).[5]
The four mandals that form the assembly constituency.[2]
| Mandals |
|---|
| Nandigam |
| Tekkali |
| Santha Bommali |
| Kotabommali |
| Year | Member | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora | Independent | |
| 1955 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1962 | Ronanki Satyanarayana | Swatantra Party | |
| 1967 | N. Ramulu | ||
| 1972 | Sattaru Lokanadham Naidu | Indian National Congress | |
| 1978 | Bammaidi Narayanaswami | Janata Party | |
| 1983 | Attada Janardhana Rao | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 1985 | Saroja Varada | ||
| 1989 | Duvvada Nagavali | ||
| 1994 | N. T. Rama Rao | ||
| 1995 by-election | Appayya Dora Hanumanthu | ||
| 1999 | Korla Revatipathi | ||
| 2004 | Appayya Dora Hanumanthu | Indian National Congress | |
| 2009 | Korla Revatipathi | ||
| 2009 by-election | Korla Bharathi | ||
| 2014 | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | Telugu Desam Party | |
| 2019 | |||
| 2024 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | 107,923 | 55.71 | ||
| YSRCP | Duvvada Srinivas | 73,488 | 37.94 | ||
| INC | Killi Krupa Rani | 2,684 | 1.39 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 7,342 | 3.79 | ||
| Majority | 34,435 | 17.77 | |||
| Turnout | 1,93,713 | ||||
| TDP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | 87,658 | 50.5 |  0.4
| |
| YSRCP | Perada Tilak | 79,113 | 45.6 | 0.07
| |
| JSP | Kaniti Kiran Kumar | 2810 | 2 | New | |
| INC | Chintada Dileep Kumar | 1743 | 1.0 | 0.2
| |
| Majority | 8,545 | 4.9 | 0.3
| ||
| Turnout | 1,73,648 | 78.5 |  0.1
| ||
| TDP hold | Swing | 0.17
|
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDP | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | 81,167 | 50.9 | 17.5
| |
| YSRCP | Duvvada Srinivas | 72,780 | 45.67 | New | |
| BSP | Lasa Someswara Rao | 2,137 | 1.3 | New | |
| INC | Killi Rammohana Rao | 1,849 | 1.2 | 33.6
| |
| Majority | 8,387 | 5.2 | 3.8
| ||
| Turnout | 160,394 | 78.4 | 2.4
| ||
| TDP gain from INC | Swing | 25.5
|
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Dr. Revatipathi Korla | 47,513 | 34.8 | 12.9
| |
| TDP | Kinjarapu Atchannaidu | 45,620 | 33.4 | 2.3
| |
| PRP | Duvvada Srinivas | 36,552 | 26.8 | New | |
| Majority | 1,893 | 1.4 | 15.3
| ||
| Turnout | 136,450 | 76.0 | 3.0
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | 7.6
|
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | A. D. Hanumanthu | 49,480 | 47.7 | 2.1
| |
| TDP | L. L. Naidu | 32,209 | 31.1 | 21.0
| |
| Majority | 17,271 | 16.7 | 10.4
| ||
| Turnout | 1,03,491 | 73.0 | 6.7
| ||
| INC gain from TDP | Swing | 11.55
|
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Rokkam Lakshmi Narasimham Dora | 9,113 | 27.85% | ||
| INC | Bandi Kurmanna | 8,628 | 26.37% | 26.37% | |
| KLP | Attada Krishnamurthi | 6,795 | 20.77% | ||
| CPI | Bandalam Gavrayya | 5,341 | 16.32% | ||
| KMPP | Prabas Chandra Sathapathi | 2,840 | 8.68% | ||
| Margin of victory | 485 | 1.48% | |||
| Turnout | 32,717 | 53.46% | |||
| Registered electors | 61,196 | ||||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
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