Vijayawada (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Vijayawada is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency of Andhra Pradesh. Total electorate is 1561705 in 2007.Vijayawada lok sabha seat has seven assembly segments under it namely vijayawada(west),vijayawada(east),kankipadu,nandigama,mylavaram,Tiruvuru,jaggayyapet.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	Harindranath Chattopadhyaya	Independent
Second	1957-62	Dr. K. Atchamamba	Indian National Congress
Third	1962-67	Dr. K. L. Rao	Indian National Congress
Fourth	1967-71	Dr. K. L. Rao	Indian National Congress
Fifth	1971-77	Dr. K. L. Rao	Indian National Congress
Sixth	1977-80	Godey Murahari	Indian National Congress
Seventh	1980-84	Vidya Chennupati	Indian National Congress
Eighth	1984-89	Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao	Telugu Desam Party
Ninth	1989-91	Vidya Chennupati	Indian National Congress
Tenth	1991-96	Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao	Telugu Desam Party
Eleventh	1996-98	Upendra Parvathaneni	Indian National Congress
Twelfth	1998-99	Upendra Parvathaneni	Indian National Congress
Thirteenth	1999-04	Gadde Ramamohan	Telugu Desam Party
Fourteenth	2004-Incumbent	Rajagopal Lagadapati	Indian National Congress

[edit] Election results

General Election, 2004: Vijayawada
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Congress	Rajagopal Lagadapati	519,624	54.95	+12.36
	TDP	Aswini Dutt Chalasani	405,037	42.84	-9.12
	Bahujan Samaj Party	Nandeti Prabhakar Rao	6,472	0.68
	Pyramid Party of India	Koneru Vara Lakshmi	5,105	0.54	+0.24
	Independent	Someswara Rao Madala	3,039	0.32
	Independent	Syed Moinuddin	1,443	0.15
	TRS	J Ramchandra Rao	1,268	0.13
	Independent	Ravi Kumar Domakonda	1,005	0.11
	Independent	Jakka Taraka Mallikarjuna Rao	637	0.07
	Independent	Apparao Damalapati	549	0.06
	Independent	Gatla Venkata Narayana Reddy	493	0.05
	Independent	Donepudi Srinivas	482	0.05
	Independent	Gottumukkala Siva Prasadaraju	396	0.04
Majority			114,487	12.11	+21.48
Turnout			945,550	64.59	-3.84
	Congress hold		Swing	+12.36