# Kovvur Assembly constituency

Kovvur is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency.
Muppidi Venkateswara Rao is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party. As of 2019, there are a total of 176,409 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).

## History

It is considered a stronghold of TDP, which won all the election battles here since its inception in 1983 except in 1999 when congress won with sufficient majority. Currently, Taneti Vanita (YSR Congress) is the present Kovvur constituency's MLA, who won 2019 Assembly elections against Vangalapudi Anitha (TDP) with a majority of 25,248 votes.

## Mandals

The three mandals that form the assembly constituency are:
* Mandal
* Kovvur
* Chagallu
* Tallapudi

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Year | Member | Political party |
| 1952 | P. Sreeramachandra Rao | Communist Party of India |
| 1955 | Alluri Bapineedu | Indian National Congress |
| 1962 | Alluri Bapineedu | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | K. B. Rayudu | Independent |
| 1972 | Alla Hanumantha Rao | Independent |
| 1978 | Munshi Abdul Aziz | Indian National Congress |
| 1983 | Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao | Telugu Desam Party |
| 1985 | Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao | Telugu Desam Party |
| 1989 | Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao | Telugu Desam Party |
| 1994 | Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao | Telugu Desam Party |
| 1999 | G. S. Rao | Indian National Congress |
| 2004 | Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao | Telugu Desam Party |
| 2009 | T. V. Rama Rao | Telugu Desam Party |
| 2014 | K. S. Jawahar | Telugu Desam Party |
| 2019 | Taneti Vanitha | YSR Congress Party |
| 2024 | Muppidi Venkateswara Rao | Telugu Desam Party |

## Election results
### 1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CPI | Pinnamaneeni Sreeramachandra Rao | 32,655 | 17.73% | |
| | INC | Alluri Bapineedu | 25,930 | 14.08% | 14.08% |
| | KMPP | Mallapudi Rajeswara Rao | 22,664 | 12.30% | |
| | Independent | Kalaputi Adeyya | 22,459 | 12.19% | |
| | KMPP | Pendyala Sree Ramachandra Venkatakrishna Ranga Rao | 21,440 | 11.64% | |
| | INC | N. Sreenivasa Rao | 18,091 | 9.82% | 9.82% |
| | Independent | Kaigala Suryachandra Rao | 13,744 | 7.46% | |
| | RPI | Erlapati Venkanna | 12,570 | 6.82% | |
| | Independent | Jeedigunta Suryanarayana Rao | 5,698 | 3.09% | |
| | Independent | Jonnalagadda Sreenivasa Sastry | 4,950 | 2.69% | |
| | Independent | Venpala Venkateswara Rao | 3,994 | 2.17% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 6,725 | 3.65% | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,84,195 | 136.86% | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 1,34,587 | | |
| | CPI win (new seat) | CPI win (new seat) | CPI win (new seat) | CPI win (new seat) | CPI win (new seat) |

### 2004

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | TDP | Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao | 65,329 | 48.26 | +2.47 |
| | INC | G S Rao | 63,998 | 47.27 | −3.76 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,331 | 28.89 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 135,378 | 79.52 | +5.33 |
| | TDP gain from INC | TDP gain from INC | Swing | | |

### 2009

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | TDP | T V Rama Rao | 55,669 | 41.80 | −6.46 |
| | INC | Koyye Moshenu Raju | 40,191 | 30.18 | −17.09 |
| | PRP | Bunga Saradhi | 29,285 | 21.99 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 15,478 | 11.62 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 133,179 | 83.78 | +4.26 |
| | TDP hold | TDP hold | Swing | | |

### 2014

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | TDP | Kothapalli Samuel Jawahar | 74,661 | 51.88 | |
| | YSRCP | Taneti Vanitha | 61,916 | 43.02 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 12,745 | 8.86 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 143,910 | 85.30 | +1.52 |
| | TDP hold | TDP hold | Swing | | |

### 2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | YSRCP | Taneti Vanitha | 79,892 | 52.35 | |
| | TDP | Vangalapudi Anitha | 54,644 | 35.80 | |
| | BSP | Ravi Kumar Murthy Tamballapalli | 11,677 | 7.65 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 25,248 | 16.54 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,52,611 | 86.41 | 0.1 |
| | YSRCP gain from TDP | YSRCP gain from TDP | Swing | | |

### 2024

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kovvur :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | TDP | Muppidi Venkateswara Rao | 92,743 | 58.29 |
| | YSRCP | Talari Venkat Rao | 58,797 | 36.95 |
| | INC | Arigela Aruna Kumari | 1,897 | 1.19 |
| | NOTA | None Of The Above | 2,465 | 1.55 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 33,946 | 21.34 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,59,111 | |
| | TDP gain from YSRCP | TDP gain from YSRCP | Swing | |