Kurnool Assembly constituency

Kurnool
Kurnool
Constituency No. 137 for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Location of Kurnool Assembly constituency within Andhra Pradesh
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Kurnool
LS constituency	Kurnool
Established	1951
Total electors	258,815
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent T. G. Bharath
Party	TDP
Elected year	2024

Kurnool Assembly constituency is a constituency in Kurnool 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 Kurnool Lok Sabha constituency.

T. G. Bharath is the current MLA of the constituency, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party.^[2] As of 25 April 2024, there are a total of 258,815 electors in the constituency.^[3] The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders (1951).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member
1952	Damodaram Sanjivayya	Indian National Congress
1955	Mahaboob Ali Khan	Indian National Congress
1962	T.K.R. Sarma	Independent
1967	K. E. Madanna	Indian National Congress
1972	P. Rahiman Khan
1978	Mohammad Ibrahim Khan
1983	V. Rama Bhupal Chowdry	Telugu Desam Party
1985	V. Rama Bhupal Chowdry	Indian National Congress
1989	V. Rama Bhupal Chowdry	Indian National Congress
1994	M. Abdul Gafoor	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1999	T. G. Venkatesh	Telugu Desam Party
2004	M. Abdul Gafoor	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2009	T. G. Venkatesh	Indian National Congress
2014	Somula Venkat Mohan Reddy	YSR Congress Party
2019	Abdul Hafeez Khan	YSR Congress Party
2024	T. G. Bharath	Telugu Desam Party

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Kurnool^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	D. Sanjeevayya	24,526	19.06%	19.06%
	INC	Sankara Reddi, N.	23,467	18.23%	18.23%
	Independent	Venkata Reddi, K.	20,643	16.04%
	Independent	Sankarayya, S.	19,286	14.98%
	Socialist	Ramachandra Sarma, Darnam	19,019	14.78%
	Independent	Anjanayya	7,698	5.98%
	KMPP	Nagappa, S.	5,038	3.91%
	KLP	Issaq, A. R.	4,725	3.67%
	KLP	Hussainappa M	4,306	3.35%
Margin of victory			1,059	0.82%
Turnout			1,28,708	84.96%
Registered electors			1,51,490
	INC win (new seat)

2004 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kurnool
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	M. Abdul Gafoor	54,125	39.06	16.78
	TDP	T. G. Venkatesh	51,652	37.27	−6.45
	Independent	D. Vishnuvardhan Reddy	26,104	18.84
Majority			2,473	1.69
Turnout			135,876	53.13	−3.19
	CPI(M) gain from TDP		Swing

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kurnool
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	T. G. Venkatesh	68,467	61.28	24.01
	CPI(M)	M. Abdul Gafoor	24,400	21.84	−17.22
	PRP	Yennam Rajasekhar Reddy	12,013	10.75
Majority			44,067	39.44
Turnout			111,726	52.82	−0.31
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kurnool
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	S. V. Mohan Reddy	57,962	40.18
	TDP	T. G. Venkatesh	54,483	37.77
Majority			3,479	2.41
Turnout			144,245	63.34	10.52
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kurnool
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	YSRCP	Abdul Hafeez Khan	72,819	47.70
	TDP	T. G. Bharath	67,466	44.19
Majority			5,353	3.51
Turnout			1,52,659
	YSRCP hold		Swing

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Kurnool
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	TDP	T. G. Bharath	91,690	51.34
	YSRCP	A. Md. Imtiaz	72,814	40.77
	INC	Shaik Jelani Basha	9,022	5.05
	NOTA	None Of The Above	718	0.4
Majority			18,876	10.57
Turnout			1,78,863
	TDP gain from YSRCP		Swing

^ "Sitting and previous MLAs from Kurnool Assembly Constituency". Infobase. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
^ "Assembly Election 2024". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^ "Electors Summary" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.