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Election Results 2019: TDP fortress Chittoor constituency under threat
The TDP had won the Chittoor seat the last six times
A reserved seat for Scheduled Castes candidates, Chittoor Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh used to be a Congress stronghold which won it 11 times since 1952 before the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) turned it into its own fortress with consecutive victories in the last six elections since 1996.
Naramalli Sivaprasad of the TDP who won the last two Lok Sabha elections from the constituency has been re-nominated to contest the seat for a third term. In 2014, he defeated YSRCP’s G Samanyakiran by 44,138 votes while Congress candidate B Rajagopal finished a humiliating third. In fact, after the initial counting N. Reddeppa of YSRCP is leading in the constittuency.
Chittoor is the home district of TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu.
The YSRCP has named N. Reddeppa from as its candidate for this constituency. Cheemala Rangappa is the Congress candidate while C. Punyamurthy will contest for the Bahujan Samaj Party which has an alliance with the Jana Sena Party. In fact, after the initial counting N. Reddeppa of YSRCP is leading in the constittuency.
This year, YSRCP and even Congress were betting big to dislodge TDP from its fortress amid reports that sitting MP Sivaprasad’ s popularity is on the wane with complaints that many works were left pending during his second tenure.
He has also been criticised for trivializing the issue of Andhra Pradesh’s Special Category Status in the Lok Sabha by showing up in Parliament in different avatars in the name of protest.
According to the 2011 census, out of a total population of 2031588, 77.64% is rural and 22.36% is urban population. The Scheduled castes (SC) and Scheduled tribes (ST) ratio is 21.67 and 3.14, respectively out of total population.
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Chittoor Lok Sabha constituency in numbers:
Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Chittoor (reserved)
State: Andhra Pradesh
Date of voting: April 11
2019 candidates: Jayaram Duggani (BJP), Dr. Cheemala Rangappa (Congress), Siva Prasad (TDP), Reddppa (YSRCP)
Sitting MP, Party: Naramalli Sivaprasad, TDP
Winning margin in 2014: 44,138 votes
Runner up name, party: G Samanyakiran, YSRCP
Number of voters in 2014: 1,452,141
Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 83
Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,582
Number of women voters: 728,145
