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BJP’s Yalla Venkata Ramamohana Rao (Dorababu), Congress’ MM Pallam Raju, YSR Congress Party's Vanga Geetha and TDP’s Chalamalasetti Sunil were the key cadidates in the fray in 2019. YSR Congress' Vanga Geetha wins by a huge margin against TDP's Chalamalashetty by 25738 votes
Updated : May 24, 2019, 05:39 PM IST
Kakinada Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Kakinada went to polls on April 11 in the first phase of Lok Sabha election 2019. BJP’s Yalla Venkata Ramamohana Rao (Dorababu), Congress’ MM Pallam Raju, YSR Congress Party's Vanga Geetha and TDP’s Chalamalasetti Sunil were the key cadidates in the fray in 2019. Being one of the key constituencies in Andhra Pradesh, Kakinada lies near East Godavari district.
YSR Congress' Vanga Geetha wins by a huge margin against TDP's Chalamalashetty by 25738 votes.
Kakinada Lok Sabha Constituency profile
Winning the Parliamentary seat in 2014 against YSRC’s Chalamalasetty on TDP’s ticket, Thota Narasimham had joined the YSR Congress while Chalamalasetty joined TDP in 2019 polls and had been nominated for Kakinada parliamentary seat while former Rajya Sabha MP Vanga Geeta was nominated by YSR Congress as its candidate.
BJP's presence in Kakinada constituency is not that impressive therefore the main contest was witnessed between TDP and YSRCP candidates. BJP had won only once in this constituency in 1988.
Out of the total population of 1,936,809 total, 34.22% comprises of urban and 65.78% is represented by rural. While 15.43 and 1.67 is the SC/ST ratio in the constituency.
Kakinada Lok Sabha constituency 2019 candidates
BJP: Yalla Venkata Ramamohana Rao (Dorababu)
INC: MM Pallam Raju
YSR Congress: Vanga Geetha
TDP: Chalamalasetti Sunil
Kakinada Lok Sabha constituency results in 2014, 2009 and 2004
2014: Thota Narasimham (M) of the TDP, who received 46.76% votes, won the election against Chalamalasetty Sunil (M) of the YSRCP.
2009: Dr M Mangapati Pallam (M) of the Congress, who received 323607 votes defeated Chalamalasetty Sunil (M) of the PRAP who got only 289563 votes.
2004: Mallipudi Mangapati Pallam Raju (M) of the Congress received 410982 votes and defeated Mudragada Padmanabham (M) of the TDP got 353730 votes.
Lok Sabha election 2019 in Andhra Pradesh was held across all 25 parliamentary seats in the first phase on April 11. Assembly election also took place simultaneously in the state.