Kankipadu Assembly constituency

Defunct Legislative Assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India

Kankipadu
Former constituency for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Krishna
LS constituency	Vijayawada
Established	1952
Abolished	2009
Total electors	121,878^[1]
Reservation	None

Kankipadu was one of the Legislative Assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh state in India.^[2] It was in Krishna district.

History of the constituency

The Kankipadu constituency was first created for the Madras state Legislative Assembly in 1952.^[3] After the passing of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, it became a part of the new Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.^[4] After the passing of the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976, its extent was the Kankipadu, Poranki and Vijayawada firks in Vijayawada taluk excluding vijayawada municipality of Krishna district.^[2]

It was not present in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 and hence was defunct as of the 2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.^[5]

Members of the Legislative assembly

Election	MLA
1983	Devineni Nehru	Telugu Desam Party
1985
1989
1994
1999	Yalamanchili Nageswara Rao	Telugu Desam Party
2004^[1]	Devineni Nehru	Indian National Congress

Election results

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kankipadu^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Devineni Nehru	103,181	54.92
	TDP	Gadde Rammohan rao	85,656	42.98
Majority			17,525	8.95
Turnout			98,789	81.05
Registered electors			121,878
	INC hold		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election, 2004". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b "The Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1976". Election Commission of India. 1 December 1976. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
^ "The Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1951". Election Commission of India. 23 August 1951. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
^ "Seventh Amendment". Indiacode.nic.in. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.