Vijayawada Central Assembly constituency

Vijayawada Central
Vijayawada Central
Constituency No. 80 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Location of Vijayawada Central Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	NTR
Lok Sabha constituency	Vijayawada
Established	2008
Total electors	2,77,724
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Bonda Uma
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

Vijayawada Central Assembly constituency is a constituency in NTR 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 Vijayawada Lok Sabha constituency.^[2]

Bonda Umamaheswara Rao is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party.^[3]^[4] As of 2019, there are a total of 269,859 electors in the constituency.^[5]^{[needs update]} The constituency was established in 2008, as per the Delimitation Orders (2008).

Mandals

The mandal and wards that form the assembly constituency are:^[2]

Mandal
Vijayawada Urban mandal (Part)
Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (Ward No. 14, 20 to 31, 33 to 35, 42 to 44, 49, 77 and 78)

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vijayawada Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	TDP	Bonda Umamaheswara Rao	130,034	63.52
	YSRCP	Vellampalli Srinivasa Rao	61,148	29.87
	CPI(M)	Chigurupati Babu Rao	4,887	2.39
	NOTA	None of the above	951	0.46
Majority			68,886	33.65
Turnout			2,04,717
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vijayawada Central^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Malladi Vishnu	70,721	39.73	+7.17
	TDP	Bonda Umamaheswara Rao	70,696	39.71	−8.79
	CPI	Chigurupati Babu Rao	29,333	16.48
	BJP	Sree Satya murthy vamaraju	2567	1.44
	NOTA	None of the above	1016	0.57	N/A
Majority			25	0.02
Turnout			1,78,013	65.95
Registered electors			269,912
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vijayawada Central^[8]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	TDP	Bonda Umamaheswara Rao	82,669	48.50
	YSRCP	P. Gowtham Reddy	55,508	32.56
Majority			27,161	15.93
Turnout			170,463	65.81
Registered electors			259,001
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vijayawada Central^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Malladi Vishnu	52,426	33.14%
	PRP	Vangaveeti Radha Krishna	51,578	32.60%
	CPI(M)	Babu Rao Chigurupati	38,273	24.19%
Margin of victory			848	0.54%
Turnout			158,267	70.71%
Registered electors			223,822
	INC win (new seat)

^ "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. 21, 31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Assembly Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Nine lost polls by narrow margin as Jana Sena front, BJP play spoilsport". The New Indian Express. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Vijayawada East Assembly 2019 Election Results". Elections.in. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
^ "AP 2019 Election Results". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
^ "Vijayawada East Assembly 2014 Election Results". Elections.in. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
^ "2014 AP Assembly Election Results". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
^ "2009 AP Assembly Election Results". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 November 2022.