# Paderu Assembly constituency

Paderu is a Scheduled Tribe reserved constituency in Alluri Sitharama Raju district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Araku Lok Sabha constituency.
Matsyarasa Visweswara Raju is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from YSR Congress Party. As of 2019, there are a total of 227,042 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1967, as per the Delimitation Orders (1967).

## Mandals

The five mandals that form the assembly constituency are:
* Mandal
* Paderu
* G.Madugula
* Chintapalli
* Gudem Kotha Veedhi
* Koyyuru

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Year | Member | Political party |
| 1967 | Tamarba Chittinaidu | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Tamarba Chittinaidu | Indian National Congress |
| 1978 | Giddi Appalanaidu | Janata Party |
| 1983 | Tammarba Chittinaidu | Indian National Congress |
| 1985 | Kottagulli Chittinaidu | Telugu Desam Party |
| 1989 | Matsyarasa Balaraju | Indian National Congress |
| 1994 | Kottagulli Chittinaidu | Telugu Desam Party |
| 1999 | Matyarasa Manikumari | Telugu Desam Party |
| 2004 | Lake Rajarao | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| 2009 | Pasupuleti Balaraju | Indian National Congress |
| 2014 | Giddi Eswari | YSR Congress Party |
| 2019 | Kottagulli Bhagya Lakshmi | YSR Congress Party |
| 2024 | Matsyarasa Visweswara Raju | YSR Congress Party |

## Election results
### 2024

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Paderu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | YSRCP | Matsyarasa Visweswara Raju | 68,170 | 42.3 |
| | TDP | Giddi Eswari | 48,832 | 30.3 |
| | Independent | Vanthala Subba Rao | 15,935 | 9.89 |
| | INC | Bulli Babu Sataka | 13,566 | 8.42 |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 1,420 | 0.88 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 19,338 | 12 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,61,160 | |
| | YSRCP hold | YSRCP hold | Swing | |

### 2019

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Paderu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | YSRCP | Kottagulli Bhagya Lakshmi | 71,153 |
| | TDP | Giddi Eswari | 28,349 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 42,804 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| | YSRCP hold | YSRCP hold | Swing |

### 2014

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Paderu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | YSRCP | Giddi Eswari | 52,384 | 40.97 | |
| | CPI | Demudu Goddeti | 26,243 | 20.53 | |
| | INC | Pasupuleti Balaraju | 21,086 | 16.49 | |
| | BJP | Lokula Gandhi | 17,029 | 13.32 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 26,141 | 20.44 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 127,849 | 59.80 | +3.36 |
| | YSRCP gain from INC | YSRCP gain from INC | Swing | | |

### 2009

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Paderu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | INC | Pasupuleti Balaraju | 35,653 | 32.40 | |
| | CPI | Demudu Goddeti | 35,066 | 31.87 | |
| | PRP | Krishnaveni Tamarbha | 16,894 | 15.35 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 587 | 0.53 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 110,297 | 56.44 | −3.85 |
| | INC gain from BSP | INC gain from BSP | Swing | | |

### 2004

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Paderu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BSP | Rajarao Lake | 33,890 | 31.43 | |
| | Independent | Ravi Sankar Samida | 26,335 | 24.43 | |
| | TDP | Manikumari Matyarasa | 23,523 | 21.82 | |
| | INC | Balaraju Matsyarasa | 20.052 | 18.60 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 7,555 | 7.00 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 107,803 | 60.29 | −1.24 |
| | BSP gain from TDP | BSP gain from TDP | Swing | | |