Lower of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature
The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (ISO : Āndhra Pradēś Śāsana Sabha ) is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state , Andhra Pradesh .[1]
The Legislative Assembly consists of 175 members which are elected by adult universal suffrage under the first-past-the-post system. The duration of the Assembly is five years from the date appointed for its first meeting, unless it is decided to dissolve the Assembly sooner. The Legislative Assembly's main functions include legislation, overseeing of administration, passing the budget, and airing public grievances.[2]
The Legislative Assembly holds three sessions annually, one for Budget and the other for Monsoon and Winter sessions.[3]
The Legislative Assembly took up residence in the interim Legislative Assembly Building in Amaravati beginning from the 2016 Budget session. The new building has systems for automatic speech translation and automatic vote recording.[4]
History [ edit ] The Andhra Legislative Assembly[5] was constituted after the formation of Andhra State on 1 October 1953. When Andhra Pradesh was formed on 1 November 1956 by merging Andhra State with the Telugu-speaking areas of Hyderabad State , the 140 Members of the Andhra State Legislative Assembly and 105 Members representing the Telugu-speaking areas of Hyderabad State merged to form APLA. At the time of formation, the Legislature was unicameral with only an Assembly with 301 Members. The first meeting was held on 3 December 1956. Sri Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao and Palasa suryachandra rao were the first Speaker and the first Deputy Speaker , respectively.
With the formation of the Legislative Council on 1 July 1958, the Andhra Pradesh Legislature became bicameral and remained so until 1 June 1985 when the Legislative Council was dissolved on 31 May 1985 during the period of the Eighth Legislative Assembly and the State Legislature once again became unicameral.[2]
On 2 June 2014, the state of Andhra Pradesh was split to form the new state of Telangana . Andhra Pradesh was allocated 175 legislative seats with the remaining 119 allocated to Telangana Legislative Assembly .[6]
In the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election held on 11 April 2019,[7] the YSR Congress Party won 151 seats and the ruling Telugu Desam Party bagged 23 seats. Jana Sena Party won one seat.[8]
In the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election held on 13 May 2024, the National Democratic Alliance won a staggering number of 164 seats and the ruling YSR Congress Party just bagged 11 seats.[9]
Composition [ edit ] The current assembly is the sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh.
Presiding officers [ edit ] Members [ edit ] Electoral history [ edit ] List of the assemblies [ edit ] Members of Legislative Assembly [ edit ] District # Constituency Name Party Remarks Srikakulam 1 Ichchapuram Ashok Bendalam Telugu Desam Party 2 Palasa Gouthu Sireesha Telugu Desam Party 3 Tekkali Kinjarapu Atchannaidu Telugu Desam Party Minister of Agriculture, Co-operation, Marketing,Animal Husbandry and Fisheries development 4 Pathapatnam Mamidi Govinda Rao Telugu Desam Party 5 Srikakulam Gondu Shankar Telugu Desam Party 6 Amadalavalasa Koona Ravi Kumar Telugu Desam Party 7 Etcherla Nadukuditi Eswara Rao Bharatiya Janata Party 8 Narasannapeta Baggu Ramanamurthy Telugu Desam Party Vizianagaram 9 Rajam (SC) Kondru Murali Mohan Telugu Desam Party Parvathipuram Manyam 10 Palakonda (ST) Nimmaka Jaya Krishna Jana Sena Party 11 Kurupam (ST) Jagadeeswari Thoyaka Telugu Desam Party 12 Parvathipuram (SC) Bonela Vijaya Chandra Telugu Desam Party 13 Salur (ST) Gummidi Sandhyarani Telugu Desam Party Minister of Women & Child Welfare,Tribal Welfare Vizianagaram 14 Bobbili R. S. V. K. K. Ranga Rao Telugu Desam Party 15 Cheepurupalli Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao Telugu Desam Party 16 Gajapathinagaram Kondapalli Srinivas Telugu Desam Party Minister of MSME,SERP,NRI Empowerment and Relations 17 Nellimarla Lokam Naga Madhavi Jana Sena Party 18 Vizianagaram Pusapati Aditi Vijayalakshmi Telugu Desam Party 19 Srungavarapukota Kolla Lalitha Kumari Telugu Desam Party Visakhapatnam 20 Bhimili Ganta Srinivasa Rao Telugu Desam Party 21 Visakhapatnam East Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu Telugu Desam Party 22 Visakhapatnam South Vamsi Krishna Srinivasa Jana Sena Party 23 Visakhapatnam North Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju Bharatiya Janata Party 24 Visakhapatnam West P. G. V. R. Naidu Telugu Desam Party 25 Gajuwaka Palla Srinivasa Rao Telugu Desam Party Anakapalli 26 Chodavaram Kalidindi Suryana Naga Sanyasi Raju Telugu Desam Party 27 Madugula Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy Telugu Desam Party Alluri Sitharama Raju 28 Araku Valley (ST) Regam Matyalingam YSR Congress Party 29 Paderu (ST) Matsyarasa Visweswara Raju YSR Congress Party Anakapalli 30 Anakapalli Konathala Ramakrishna Jana Sena Party Visakhapatnam 31 Pendurthi Panchakarla Ramesh Babu Jana Sena Party Anakapalli 32 Yelamanchili Sundarapu Vijay Kumar Jana Sena Party 33 Payakaraopet (SC) Vangalapudi Anitha Telugu Desam Party Minister of Home & Disaster Management 34 Narsipatnam Chintakayala Ayyanna Patrudu Telugu Desam Party Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Kakinada 35 Tuni Yanamala Divya Telugu Desam Party 36 Prathipadu (Kakinada) Varupula Satyaprabha Telugu Desam Party 37 Pithapuram Pawan Kalyan Jana Sena Party Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh 38 Kakinada Rural Pantham Nanaji Jana Sena Party 39 Peddapuram Nimmakayala Chinarajappa Telugu Desam Party East Godavari 40 Anaparthy Nallamilli Ramakrishna Reddy Bharatiya Janata Party Kakinada 41 Kakinada City Vanamadi Venkateswara Rao Telugu Desam Party Konaseema 42 Ramachandrapuram Vasamsetti Subhash Telugu Desam Party Minister Labour,Boilers & Factories,Medical Insurance Services 43 Mummidivaram Datla Subbaraju Telugu Desam Party 44 Amalapuram (SC) Aithabathula Anandarao Telugu Desam Party 45 Razole (SC) Deva Varaprasad Jana Sena Party 46 Gannavaram (Konaseema) (SC) Giddi Satyanarayana Jana Sena Party 47 Kothapeta Bandaru Satyananda Rao Telugu Desam Party 48 Mandapeta V. Jogeswara Rao Telugu Desam Party East Godavari 49 Rajanagaram Bathula Balaramakrishna Jana Sena Party 50 Rajahmundry City Adireddy Srinivas Telugu Desam Party 51 Rajahmundry Rural Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary Telugu Desam Party Kakinada 52 Jaggampeta Jyothula Nehru Telugu Desam Party Alluri Sitharama Raju 53 Rampachodavaram (ST) Miriyala Sirisha Devi Telugu Desam Party East Godavari 54 Kovvur (SC) Muppidi Venkateswara Rao Telugu Desam Party 55 Nidadavole Kandula Durgesh Jana Sena Party Minister of Tourism & Culture, Cinematography West Godavari 56 Achanta Satyanarayana Pithani Telugu Desam Party 57 Palakollu Nimmala Rama Naidu Telugu Desam Party Minister of Water Resources Development (Irrigation) 58 Narasapuram Bommidi Narayana Nayakar Jana Sena Party 59 Bhimavaram Pulaparthi Ramanjaneyulu Jana Sena Party 60 Undi Raghu Rama Krishna Raju Telugu Desam Party 61 Tanuku Arimilli Radha Krishna Telugu Desam Party 62 Tadepalligudem Bolisetti Srinivas Jana Sena Party Eluru 63 Unguturu Dharmaraju Patsamatla Jana Sena Party 64 Denduluru Chintamaneni Prabhakar Telugu Desam Party 65 Eluru Radha Krishnayya Badeti Telugu Desam Party East Godavari 66 Gopalapuram (SC) Maddipati Venkata Raju Telugu Desam Party Eluru 67 Polavaram (ST) Chirri Balaraju Jana Sena Party 68 Chintalapudi (SC) Roshan Kumar Songa Telugu Desam Party NTR 69 Tiruvuru (SC) Kolikapudi Srinivasa Rao Telugu Desam Party Eluru 70 Nuzvid Kolusu Parthasarathy Telugu Desam Party Minister of Housing, Information & Public Relations Krishna 71 Gannavaram (Krishna) Yarlagadda Venkata Rao Telugu Desam Party 72 Gudivada Venigandla Ramu Telugu Desam Party Eluru 73 Kaikalur Kamineni Srinivas Bharatiya Janata Party Krishna 74 Pedana Kagitha Krishna Prasad Telugu Desam Party 75 Machilipatnam Kollu Ravindra Telugu Desam Party Minister of Mines & Geology, Excise 76 Avanigadda Mandali Buddha Prasad Jana Sena Party 77 Pamarru (SC) Kumar Raja Varla Telugu Desam Party 78 Penamaluru Bode Prasad Telugu Desam Party NTR 79 Vijayawada West Sujana Chowdary Bharatiya Janata Party 80 Vijayawada Central Bonda Umamaheswara Rao Telugu Desam Party 81 Vijayawada East Gadde Ramamohan Telugu Desam Party 82 Mylavaram Vasantha Krishna Prasad Telugu Desam Party 83 Nandigama (SC) Tangirala Sowmya Telugu Desam Party 84 Jaggayyapeta Rajagopal Sreeram Telugu Desam Party Palnadu 85 Pedakurapadu Bhashyam Praveen Telugu Desam Party Guntur 86 Tadikonda (SC) Tenali Sravan Kumar Telugu Desam Party 87 Mangalagiri Nara Lokesh Telugu Desam Party Minister of Human Resources Development (Education) , Information Technology , Electronics & Communication , Real Time Governance 88 Ponnuru Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar Telugu Desam Party Bapatla 89 Vemuru (SC) Nakka Ananda Babu Telugu Desam Party 90 Repalle Anagani Satya Prasad Telugu Desam Party Minister of Revenue, Registration & Stamps Guntur 91 Tenali Nadendla Manohar Jana Sena Party Minister of Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs Bapatla 92 Bapatla Vegesana Narendra Varma Raju Telugu Desam Party Guntur 93 Prathipadu (Guntur) (SC) Burla Ramanjaneyulu Telugu Desam Party 94 Guntur West Galla Madhavi Telugu Desam Party 95 Guntur East Mohammed Naseer Ahmed Telugu Desam Party Palnadu 96 Chilakaluripet Prathipati Pulla Rao Telugu Desam Party 97 Narasaraopet Chadalavada Aravind Babu Telugu Desam Party 98 Sattenapalle Kanna Lakshminarayana Telugu Desam Party 99 Vinukonda G. V. Anjaneyulu Telugu Desam Party 100 Gurazala Yarapathineni Srinivasa Rao Telugu Desam Party 101 Macherla Julakanti Brahmananda Reddy Telugu Desam Party Prakasam 102 Yerragondapalem (SC) Tatiparthi Chandra Sekhar YSR Congress Party 103 Darsi Buchepalli Siva Prasad Reddy YSR Congress Party Bapatla 104 Parchur Yeluri Sambasiva Rao Telugu Desam Party 105 Addanki Gottipati Ravi Kumar Telugu Desam Party Minister of Energy 106 Chirala Maduluri Mala Kondaiah Telugu Desam Party Prakasam 107 Santhanuthalapadu (SC) B.N.Vijay Kumar Telugu Desam Party 108 Ongole Damacharla Janardhana Rao Telugu Desam Party Nellore 109 Kandukur Inturi Nageswara Rao Telugu Desam Party Prakasam 110 Kondapi (SC) Dola Sree Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy Telugu Desam Party Minister of Social Welfare, Disabled & Senior Citizen Welfare, Affairs of Sachivalayam & Village Volunteer 111 Markapuram Kandula Narayana Reddy Telugu Desam Party 112 Giddalur Ashok Reddy Muthumula Telugu Desam Party 113 Kanigiri Dr. Mukku Ugra Narasimha Reddy Telugu Desam Party Nellore 114 Kavali Dagumati Venkata Krishna Reddy Telugu Desam Party 115 Atmakur Anam Ramanarayana Reddy Telugu Desam Party Minister of Endowments 116 Kovur Vemireddy Prashanti Reddy Telugu Desam Party 117 Nellore City Ponguru Narayana Telugu Desam Party Minister of Urban Development & Municipal Administration 118 Nellore Rural Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy Telugu Desam Party 119 Sarvepalli Somireddy Chandra Mohan Reddy Telugu Desam Party Tirupati 120 Gudur (SC) Pasim Sunil Kumar Telugu Desam Party 121 Sullurpeta (SC) Nelavala Vijayasree Telugu Desam Party 122 Venkatagiri Kurugondla Ramakrishna Telugu Desam Party Nellore 123 Udayagiri Kakarla Suresh Telugu Desam Party Kadapa 124 Badvel (SC) Dasari Sudha YSR Congress Party Annamayya 125 Rajampet Akepati Amarnath Reddy YSR Congress Party Kadapa 126 Kadapa Reddeppagari Madhavi Telugu Desam Party Annamayya 127 Kodur (SC) Arava Sreedhar Jana Sena Party 128 Rayachoti Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy Telugu Desam Party Minister of Transport, Youth & Sports Kadapa 129 Pulivendula Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy YSR Congress Party 130 Kamalapuram Putha Krishna Chaitanya Reddy Telugu Desam Party 131 Jammalamadugu C. Adinarayana Reddy Bharatiya Janata Party 132 Proddatur Nandyala Varada Rajulu Reddy Telugu Desam Party 133 Mydukur Putta Sudhakar Yadav Telugu Desam Party Nandyal 134 Allagadda Bhuma Akhila Priya Telugu Desam Party 135 Srisailam Budda Rajasekhar Reddy Telugu Desam Party 136 Nandikotkur (SC) G. Jayasurya Telugu Desam Party Kurnool 137 Kurnool T. G. Bharath Telugu Desam Party Minister of Industries & Commerce, Food Processing 138 Panyam Gowru Charitha Reddy Telugu Desam Party Nandyal 139 Nandyal N. M. D. Farooq Telugu Desam Party Minister of Law & Justice, Minority Welfare 140 Banaganapalle B. C. Janardhan Reddy Telugu Desam Party Minister of Roads & Buildings, Infrastructure & Investments 141 Dhone Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy Telugu Desam Party Kurnool 142 Pattikonda K.E. Shyam Kumar Telugu Desam Party 143 Kodumur (SC) Boggula Dastagiri Telugu Desam Party 144 Yemmiganur B. Jayanageswara Reddy Telugu Desam Party 145 Mantralayam Y Balanagi Reddy YSR Congress Party 146 Adoni Dr. Partha Sarathi Valmiki Bharatiya Janata Party 147 Alur B. Virupakshi YSR Congress Party Anantapur 148 Rayadurg Kalava Srinivasulu Telugu Desam Party 149 Uravakonda Payyavula Keshav Telugu Desam Party Minister of Finance, Planning, Commercial Taxes & Legislative Affairs 150 Guntakal Gummanur Jayaram Telugu Desam Party 151 Tadipatri Ashmit Reddy J.C Telugu Desam Party 152 Singanamala (SC) Bandaru Sravani Sree Telugu Desam Party 153 Anantapur Urban Daggupati Prasad Telugu Desam Party 154 Kalyandurg Amilineni Surendra Babu Telugu Desam Party 155 Raptadu Paritala Sunitha Telugu Desam Party Sri Sathya Sai 156 Madakasira (SC) M.S. Raju Telugu Desam Party 157 Hindupur Nandamuri Balakrishna Telugu Desam Party 158 Penukonda S. Savitha Telugu Desam Party Minister of B.C. Welfare, Economically Weaker Sections Welfare, Handlooms & Textiles 159 Puttaparthi Palle Sindhura Reddy Telugu Desam Party 160 Dharmavaram Satya Kumar Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Medical Education 161 Kadiri Kandikunta Venkata Prasad Telugu Desam Party Annamayya 162 Thamballapalle Peddireddy Dwarakanatha Reddy YSR Congress Party 163 Pileru N. Kishore Kumar Reddy Telugu Desam Party 164 Madanapalle M. Shajahan Basha Telugu Desam Party Chittoor 165 Punganur Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy YSR Congress Party Tirupati 166 Chandragiri Pullivarthi Venkata Mani Prasad (Nani) Telugu Desam Party 167 Tirupati Arani Srinivasulu Jana Sena Party 168 Srikalahasti Bojjala Venkata Sudhir Reddy Telugu Desam Party 169 Satyavedu (SC) Adimulam Koneti Telugu Desam Party Chittoor 170 Nagari Gali Bhanu Prakash Telugu Desam Party 171 Gangadhara Nellore (SC) Dr V M Thomas Telugu Desam Party 172 Chittoor Gurajala Jagan Mohan Telugu Desam Party 173 Puthalapattu (SC) K. Murali Mohan Telugu Desam Party 174 Palamaner N. Amarnath Reddy Telugu Desam Party 175 Kuppam N. Chandrababu Naidu Telugu Desam Party Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] See also [ edit ] ^ No official opposition because no political party obtained at least 10% of the seats in the assembly ^ did not contest and extended it's support to the National Democratic Alliance ^ No official opposition because no political party obtained at least 10% of the seats in the following assembly election References [ edit ]