Elections in Andhra Pradesh – 2014 Results

 

Andhra Pradesh is a state situated in the southern part of India. The natives of Andhra Pradesh speak Telugu language. General elections were conducted in the state for the first time in 1956 for around 249 constituencies. In the year 1958, the state was declared as bicameral and it remained in the state till 1985. It was then again declared as unicameral in 2007. Till today, around 15 Lok Sabha elections have been held in the state.

List of parliamentary constituencies in Andhra Pradesh

PC. No	PC. Name	PC. No	PC. Name	PC. No	PC. Name
1	Adilabad (ST)	15	Warangal (SC)	29	Vijayawada
2	Peddapalle (SC)	16	Mahabubabad (ST)	30	Guntur
3	Karimnagar	17	Khammam	31	Narasaraopet
4	Nizamabad	18	Araku (ST)	32	Bapatla (SC)
5	Zahirabad	19	Srikakulam	33	Ongole
6	Medak	20	Vizianagaram	34	Nandyal
7	Malkajgiri	21	Visakhapatnam	35	Kurnool
8	Secunderabad	22	Anakapalli	36	Anantapur
9	Hyderabad	23	Kakinada	37	Hindupur
10	Chevella	24	Amalapuram (SC)	38	Kadapa
11	Mahbubnagar	25	Rajahmundry	39	Nellore
12	Nagarkurnool (SC)	26	Narasapur	40	Tirupathi (SC)
13	Nalgonda	27	Eluru	41	Rajampet
14	Bhongir	28	Machilipatnam	42	Chittoor (SC)

Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections – 2014

Below is the list of the schedule and dates for the different procedure that will be carried out during the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections.

Phase 7
No of ACs going to poll 199	(AC no. 1 to 199)
Issue of Notification	02-Apr-14
Last Date for filing Nominations	09-Apr-14
Scrutiny of Nominations	10-Apr-14
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	12-Apr-14
Date of Poll	30-Apr-14
Counting of Votes	16-May-14
Date before which the election shall be completed	28-May-14
Phase 8
No of ACs going to poll 175	(AC no. 120 to 294)
Issue of Notification	12-Apr-14
Last Date for filing Nominations	19-Apr-14
Scrutiny of Nominations	21-Apr-14
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	23-Apr-14
Date of Poll	07-May-14
Counting of Votes	16-May-14
Date before which the election shall be completed	28-May-14

Andhra Pradesh elections

When we look back into the election history of Andhra Pradesh, we can see that most of the times Congress party has come to power. In 1983 NT Rama Rao known as NTR formed a party called Telugu Desham Party (TDP) which came to power soon but came down due to division. Later after some years this party came to power in 1984. After that again Congress party came to power in 1989 and completed its term successfully.

Later the command of the party was handed over to Chandrababu Naidu who was the son in law of NTR. NTR died in 1996 leaving the responsibility of the party in the hands of his wife and son in law. Chandrababu Naidu became chief minister and remained on the post for 9 years till 2004 till he was defeated by Congress in the elections.

changed when people started to demand for a separate state called Telengana. It lead to controversies as Hyderabad was also part of Telangana.

YSR Reddy became the chief minister of the state. Konigeti Rosaian became the next chief minister when YSR died in a helicopter crash. After that Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy came to power and became the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

Administration process

Andhra Pradesh is a state situated in the southern part of India. Telugu is the local language of the state. The state has bicameral Legislature comprising of Vidhan Sabha, the lower House and Vidhan Parishad, the Upper House. There are 294 seats in the Lower House and 90 seats in the upper House. Andhra Pradesh contributes 42 seats to Lok Sabha and 18 seats to Rajya Sabha.

List of Political Parties in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh in politically effected by both national and state level parties.
The list of national level parties are:
Bharatiya Janta Party
Indian National Congress Party
Communist Party of India
Bahujan Samaj Party
The list of some of the parties at the state level parties are:
Telugu Desham Party
Telangan Communist Party
Nava Telengana Praga Party
Andhra Pradesh committee of communist revolutionaries
Praja Rajyam Party
Telangana Sadhna Samithi
Mana Party
Lok Satta Party
Telangan rashtra Samithy
Telangana Janta Party
People’s democratic fund
Anna Telugu Desham Party
Majilis Bachao Tehreek
All India Majilis e Ittehadul Mislimeen
YSR Congress party
Rajyadhikara Party

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly

There are 294 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh. The party which wins majority of the seats gets the chance to form the government. Andhra Pradesh has Legislative Council which comprises of 90 seats. The members of the Legislative Council are elected by the members of the Assembly.

List of Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh

Sr.No.	Name of Chief Ministers	From	To	Party
1	Sri Tanguturi Prakasam	Oct 1, 1953	Mar 27, 1955	INC
2	Sri Bezawada Gopala Reddy	Mar 28, 1955	Nov 1, 1956	INC
3	Sri.Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy	Jan 11, 1956	Nov 1, 1960	INC
4	Sri Damodaram Sanjivayya	Nov 1, 1960	Dec 3, 1962	INC
5	Sri (Dr)Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy	Dec 3, 1962	Feb 29, 1964	INC
6	Sri Kasu Bramhananda Reddy	Feb 29, 1964	Sep 30, 1971	INC
7	Sri P.V.Narasimha Rao	Sep 30, 1971	Oct 1, 1973	INC
	President’s rule	Oct 10, 1973	Oct 12, 1973
8	Sri. Jalagam Vengala Rao	Oct 12, 1973	Jun 3, 1978	INC
9	Dr Marri Chenna Reddy	Jun 3, 1978	Nov 10, 1980	INC
10	Sri Tanguturi Anjaiah	Nov 10, 1980	Feb 24, 1982	INC
11	Sri Bhavanam Venkataram	Feb 24, 1982	Sep 20, 1982	INC
12	Sri K.Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy	Jan 9,1982	Sep 1, 1983	INC
13	Sri N.T.Rama Rao	Sep 1, 1983	Aug 16, 1984	INC
14	Sri N.Bhaskara rao	Aug 16, 1984	Sep 16, 1984	TDP
15	Sri N.T.Rama Rao	Sep 16, 1984	Sep 3, 1985	INC
16	Sri N.T.Rama Rao	Sep 3, 1985	Mar 12, 1989	TDP
17	Dr.Marri Chenna Reddy	Mar 12, 1989	Dec 17, 1990	INC
18	Sri N.Janardhana Reddy	Dec 17, 1990	Sep 10, 1992	INC
19	Sri K.VijayaBhaskara Reddy	Sep 10, 1992	Dec 12, 1994	INC
20	Sri N.T.Rama Rao	Dec 12, 1994	Jan 9, 1995	TDP
21	Sri N. Chandra Babu Naidu	Jan 9, 1995	Apr 14, 2004	TDP
22	Dr.Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy	Apr 14, 2004	Feb 9, 2009	INC
23	Sri. K. Rosaiah	Apr 9, 2009	Nov 24, 2010	INC
24	Sri. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy	Nov 25, 2010	Present	INC
24	President’s Rule	2nd March 2014	Present	N.A.

List of Governors of Andhra Pradesh

Sr.No.	Name of Governors	From	To
1	Sri C.M. Trivedi	Jan 11, 1953	Jul 31, 1957
2	Sri Bhimsen Sachar	Jan 8, 1957	Jul 9, 1962
3	Genl. S.M. Shrinagesh	Aug 9, 1962	Mar 5, 1964
4	Sri P.A. Thanu Pillai	Apr 5, 1964	Oct 4, 1968
5	Sri Khandubai Kasanji Desai	Nov 4, 1968	Jan 25, 1975
6	Sri Justice S. Obul Reddi	Jan 25, 1975	Sep 1, 1976
7	Sri Mohanlal Sukhadia	Oct 1, 1976	Jun 15, 1976
8	Sri R.D. Bhandare	Jun 15, 1976	Feb 16, 1977
9	Sri Justice B.J. Diwan	Feb 17, 1977	Apr 5, 1977
10	Smt. Sharada Mukerjee	May 5, 1977	Aug 14, 1978
11	Sri K.C. Abraham	Aug 15, 1978	Aug 14, 1983
12	Sri Ramlal	Aug 15, 1983	Aug 29, 1984
13	Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma	Aug 29, 1984	26/11/1985
14	Smt. Kumudben Manish Joshi	Nov 26, 1985	Jul 2, 1990
15	Sri Krishan Kant	Jul 2, 1990	Aug 21, 1997
16	Sri G. Ramanujam	Aug 22, 1997	23/11/1997
17	Dr. C. Rangarajan	Nov 24, 1997	Feb 1, 2003
18	Sri. Surjeet Singh Barnala	Mar 1, 2003	Mar 11, 2004
19	Sri. Sushil Kumar Shinde	Apr 11, 2004	Apr 1, 2006
20	Sri. Rameshwar Thakur	Apr 1, 2006	Aug 21, 2007
21	Sri. Narayan Dutt Tiwari	Aug 21, 2007	27/12/2009
22	Sri. E S Lakshmi Narasimhan	Dec 28, 2009	Present