Pendurthi Assembly constituency

Pendurthi
Pendurthi
Constituency No. 31 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Location of Pendurthi Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Visakhapatnam (partially); Anakapalli (partially);
LS constituency	Anakapalli
Established	1978
Total electors	307056
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Panchakarla Ramesh Babu
Party	JSP
Elected year	2024

Pendurthi Assembly constituency is a constituency partially in Visakhapatnam district and Anakapalli 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 Anakapalli Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Panchakarla Ramesh Babu is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Jana Sena Party.^[3] As of 2019, there are a total of 268,532 electors in the constituency.^[4]^{[needs update]} The constituency was established in 1978, as per the Delimitation Orders (1978).

Mandals

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

Mandal
Pedagantyada (excluding areas included in Gajuwaka(GVMC))
Parawada
Sabbavaram
Pendurthi

Year	Member
1978	Gudivada Appanna	Indian National Congress (I)
1980 by-election	Dronamraju Satyanarayana	Indian National Congress (I)
1983	P. Appalanarasimham	Telugu Desam Party
1985	Alla Rama Chandra Rao	Telugu Desam Party
1989	Gudivada Gurunadha Rao	Indian National Congress
1994	M. Anjaneyulu	Communist Party of India
1999	P. G. V. R. Naidu	Telugu Desam Party
2004	Tippala Gurumurthy Reddy	Indian National Congress
2009	Panchakarla Ramesh Babu	Praja Rajyam Party
2014	Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy	Telugu Desam Party
2019	Annamreddy Adeep Raj	YSR Congress Party
2024	Panchakarla Ramesh Babu	Janasena Party

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pendurthi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JSP	Panchakarla Ramesh Babu	149,611	65.01	55.22
	YSRCP	Annamreddy Adeep Raj	67,741	29.43	20.36
	INC	Bhagat Piridi	4,224	1.84	0.90
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,834	1.23	0.67
Majority			81,870	35.37	18.46
Turnout			2,30,144
	JSP gain from YSRCP		Swing

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pendurthi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	YSRCP	Annamreddy Adeep Raj	99,759	49.79
	TDP	Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy	70,899	35.38
	JSP	Chintalapudi Venkataramaiah	19,626	9.79
Majority			28,860	16.91
Turnout
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pendurthi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy	94,531	51.87
	YSRCP	Gandi babji	75,883	41.64
Majority			18,648	10.23
Turnout			182,248	78.26	+2.79
	TDP gain from PRP		Swing

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pendurthi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PRP	Panchakarla Ramesh Babu	51,700	32.99
	INC	Gandi Babji	48,428	30.91
	TDP	Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy	43,461	27.74
Majority			3,272	2.08
Turnout			156,695	75.47	+16.68
	PRP gain from INC		Swing

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Pendurthi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Tippala Gurumurthy Reddy	132,609	52.60	+11.08
	TDP	Gudivada Nagamani	114,459	45.40	−6.56
Majority			18,150	7.20
Turnout			252,118	58.79	−1.18
	INC gain from TDP		Swing

^ "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. 18, 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Assembly Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.