Vijayawada West Assembly constituency

Vijayawada West
Vijayawada West
Constituency No. 79 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Location of Vijayawada West Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	NTR
LS constituency	Vijayawada
Established	1967
Total electors	232,555
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Sujana Chowdary
Party	BJP
Elected year	2024

Vijayawada West 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]

Sujana Chowdary is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Bharatiya Janata Party.^[3] As of 2019, there are a total of 232,555 electors in the constituency.^[4]^{[needs update]} The constituency was established in 1967, as per the Delimitation Orders (1967).^[5]

Mandals

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

Mandal
Vijayawada Urban mandal (Part)
Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (Ward No. 1 to 13, 15 to 19, 75 and 76)

Year	Member
1967	Marupilla Chitti	Indian National Congress
1972	Asib Pasha
1978	Pothina Chinna
1983	B. S. Jayaraju	Telugu Desam Party
1985	Uppalapati Ramachandra Raju	Communist Party of India
1989	M. K. Baig	Indian National Congress
1994	Kakarlapudi Subba Raju	Communist Party of India
1999	Jaleel Khan	Indian National Congress
2004	Shaik Nasar Vali	Communist Party of India
2009	Vellampalli Srinivas	Praja Rajyam Party
2014	Jaleel Khan	YSR Congress Party
2019	Vellampalli Srinivas	YSR Congress Party
2024	Sujana Chowdary	Bharatiya Janata Party

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vijayawada West^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PRP	Vellampalli Srinivas	51,467	34.16
	INC	Mallika Begum	43,125	28.63
Majority			8,342
Turnout			154,459	65.21
	PRP gain from INC		Swing

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vijayawada West^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	YSRCP	Jaleel Khan	63,180	40.89
	BJP	Vellampalli Srinivas	60,072	38.88
Majority			3,108	2.01
Turnout			154,459	65.21
	YSRCP gain from PRP		Swing

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vijayawada West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	YSRCP	Vellampalli Srinivas	58,435	38.04
	TDP	Shabana Musarat Khatoon	50,764	33.04
	JSP	Pothina Venkata Mahesh	22,367	14.56
Majority			7,671	5.00
Turnout			153,623	63.41
	YSRCP hold		Swing

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Vijayawada West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sujana Chowdary	105,669	61.49
	YSRCP	Shaik Asif	58,637	34.12
	CPI	Koteswara Rao Gummadidala	3,723	2.17
	NOTA	None of the above	1,236	0.72
Majority			47,032	27.37
Turnout			1,71,843
	BJP gain from YSRCP		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. 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.
^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "The Gazette of India Extraordinary (Delimitation Orders, 1967)" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ "List of Successful Candidates in Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election in 2009". Elections.in. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ "The Andhra Pradesh Gazette, Part-V Extraordinary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad. 20 May 2014. p. 14. Retrieved 13 June 2019.