Rajam Assembly constituency

Rajam
Rajam
Constituency No. 9 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Location of Rajam Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Vizianagaram
Lok Sabha constituency	Vizianagaram
Established	2008
Total electors	219,313
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Kondru Murali Mohan
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

Rajam is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh that elects represtatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India.^[1] It is one of the seven assembly segments of Vizianagaram Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Kondru Murali Mohan 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 219,313 electors in the constituency.^[4]^{[needs update]} The constituency was established in 2008, as per the Delimitation Orders (2008).

Mandals

The four mandals that form the assembly constituency are:^[2]

Mandal
Rajam
Vangara
Santhakaviti
Regidi Amadalavalasa

Mandals in Rajam Assembly Constituency

Members of the Legislative Assembly (Vunukuru)

Year	Member
1955	Chelikani Sreeranga Naikulu	Krishikar Lok Party
1962	Palavalasa Sangamnaidu	Indian National Congress
1967	M. B. Parankusam	Independent politician
1972	Palavalasa Rukminamma	Indian National Congress
1978	Mudili Babu Parankusam	Janata Party
1983	Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao	Telugu Desam Party
1985	Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao
1989	Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao
1994	Palavalasa Rajasekharam	Indian National Congress
1999	Kimidi Ganapathi Rao	Telugu Desam Party
2004	Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao	Telugu Desam Party

Members of the Legislative Assembly (Honjaram)

Year	Member	Political party
1952	Peesuputi Pundareekakshacharyulu		Krishikar Lok Party

Members of the Legislative Assembly (Boddam)

Year	Member	Political party
1962	Allu Dasavatharam		Indian National Congress

Members of the Legislative Assembly (Rajam)

Year	Member
2009	Kondru Murali Mohan	Indian National Congress
2014	Kambala Jogulu	YSR Congress Party
2019	Kambala Jogulu	YSR Congress Party
2024	Kondru Murali Mohan	Telugu Desam Party

Election results

Honjaram

1952

1952 Madras State Legislative Assembly election: Honjaram^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KLP	Peesuputi Pundareekakshacharyulu	16,731	36.67%
	Independent	Chelikami Sreeranganayakulu	15,846	34.73%
	INC	Pydi Narasimha Appa Rao	13,051	28.60%	28.60%
Margin of victory			885	1.94%
Turnout			45,628	55.61%
Registered electors			82,048
	KLP win (new seat)

Vunukuru

1955

1955 Andhra State Legislative Assembly election: Vunukuru
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KLP	Chelikani Sreeranga Naikulu	14,838	39.70	3.03
	Independent	Palavalasa Sangamnaidu	12,019	32.16
	CPI	Mudili Babu Parankusam	10,515	28.14
Majority			2,819	7.54	5.6
Turnout			37,372	58.12	2.51
	KLP hold		Swing

1962

1962 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Rajam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Palavalasa Sangamnaidu	16,910	64.79
	CPI	Mudili Babu Parankusam	9,187	35.20	7.06
Majority			7,723	29.59	22.05
Turnout			26,097
	INC gain from KLP		Swing

1967

1967 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vunukuru
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Mudili Parankusam	22,047	45.32	10.12
	INC	P. Sangamnaidu	11,545	23.73	41.06
	Independent	V. Raj Rao	9,556	19.64
	CPI(M)	B. Appalanaidu	3,992	8.21
	Independent	K. Satyannarayana	1,055	3.09
Majority			10,502	21.59	8
Turnout			48,645	70.75
	Independent gain from INC		Swing

1972

1972 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vunukuru
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Palavalasa Rukminamma	28,572	48.32	24.59
	Independent	Mudili Parankusah	15,020	25.40
	Independent	Mamidirajagopala Naidu	13,843	23.41
	Independent	Palavalasa Balaramaswamy	1,280	2.16
	Independent	Setti Subbi Naidu	418	0.71
Majority			13,552	22.92	1.33
Turnout			59,133	70.91	0.16
	INC gain from Independent		Swing

1978

1978 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vunukuru
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Mudili Parankusam	26,617	36.28	10.88
	INC	Rimkinamma Palavalasa	20,030	27.30	21.02
	INC(I)	K. Rao	14,544	19.82	New
	Independent	Shivaramunaidu Gullipalli	10,622	14.48	New
	Independent	Setti Subbi Naidu	1,553	2.12	1.41
Majority			6,587	8.98	13.94
Turnout			73,366	78.97	8.06
	JP gain from INC		Swing

1983

1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vunukuru
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao	47,735	64.1
	INC	Palavalasa Rajasekharam	24,354	32.7	5.4
	LKD	Tirupathirao Vakamulla	2,392	3.2
Majority			23,381	30.7	22
Turnout			76,261	75.9	3.1
	TDP gain from JP		Swing

1985

1985 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Rajam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao	49,843	66.3	2.2
	INC	Kemburu Rao	22,498	29.9	2.8
	Independent	Gedela Naidu	1,552	2.1
	Independent	P.M.J.Mugada Ellan Naidu	678	0.9	New
	Independent	Majji Suryanarayana	340	0.5
	Independent	Ragolu Nageswara Rao	310	0.4
Majority			27,345	35.7	5
Turnout			76,673	71.3	4.9
	TDP hold		Swing

1989

1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vunukuru
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao	49,612	51.2	15.1
	INC	Kambala Rajvardhan	2,214	1.4	1.9
Majority			2,237	2.2	33.5
Turnout			101,152	77.7	6.4
	TDP hold		Swing

1994

1994 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vunukuru
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Palavalasa Rajasekharam	53,559	50.4	1.5
	TDP	Kala Kimidi	49,301	46.4	4.8
	BJP	Damodara Rao Buri	2,755	2.6	New
	BSP	Arasada Suguna	621	0.6	New
	Independent	Pogiri Ravana Naidu	106	0.1	New
Majority			4,258	3.9	1.7
Turnout			109,245	78.3	0.6
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

1999

1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vunukuru
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao	57,659	53.1	1.6
	INC	Palavalasa Rajasekharam	46,171	42.5	0.8
	CPI(M)	Bhaviri Murthy	4,564	4.2
	Independent	Botcha Tammi Naidu	293	0.3	1.8
Majority			11,488	10.2	1.2
Turnout			12,550	72.9	3.1
	TDP hold		Swing

Rajam

2009

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Rajam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kondru Murali Mohan	61,771	46.0
	TDP	Kavali Pratibha Bharathi	34,638	25.8
	PRP	Kambala Jogulu	27,923	20.8
	BJP	Paka Rajarao	4,234	3.2
	Independent	Bosi Manmadharao	1,741	1.3
	LSP	Adinarayana Dukka	1,645	1.2
	BSP	Bhupathi Apparao	1,271	1.0
Majority			27,133	0.3
Turnout			133,223	74.2	1.5
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

2014

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Rajam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Kambala Jogulu	69,192	47.0	*New*
	TDP	Kavali Pratibha Bharathi	68,680	46.7	20.9
	INC	Kondru Murali Mohan	4,790	3.3	42.7
	Independent	P.M.J. Babu	1,205	0.8	New
	LSP	Tunia Shankar Babu Rao	1,141	0.8	0.4
	BSP	Mannena Chaitanya Kumar	737	0.5	0.5
	AAP	Paila M.M.R.R. Suresh Kumar	491	0.3	New
	JSP	Savarapu Praveena	480	0.3	New
Majority			512	0.3	19.9
Turnout			1,47,887	74.2	1.5
	YSRCP gain from INC		Swing

2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Rajam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Kambala Jogulu	83,561	52.6	5.6
	TDP	Kondru Murali Mohan	66,713	42.0	4.7
	JSP	Mucha Srinivasa Rao	4,987	3.1	New
	INC	Kambala Rajvardhan	2,214	1.4	1.9
	BJP	Chaitanya Kumar Mannema	967	0.6	New
Majority			16,848	10.6	10.3
Turnout			1,58,947	73.9	0.3
	YSRCP hold		Swing	5.15

2024

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Rajam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	TDP	Kondru Murali Mohan	94,385	53.4
	YSRCP	Dr.Tale Rajesh	73,663	41.7
	INC	Kambala Rajavardhan	3,684	2
	NOTA	None of the above	2,536	1.44
Majority			20,722	11.74
Turnout			1,76,494	75.82
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

References

^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. 17 December 2018. pp. 16, 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Rajam Election Result 2024 LIVE Updates Highlights: Assembly Winner, Loser, Leading, Trailing, MLA, Margin". News18. 4 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.

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[1] "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

[constituencies-2] "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. 17 December 2018. pp. 16, 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

[3] "Rajam Election Result 2024 LIVE Updates Highlights: Assembly Winner, Loser, Leading, Trailing, MLA, Margin". News18. 4 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.

[electors-4] "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

[5] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.

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