Amaravati, April 8: Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh will take place in a single phase on April 11. The 175-member assembly will go for polls along with the Lok Sabha elections 2019. The main contest will be between Chandrababu Naidu led Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Jagan Mohan Reddy's Yuvajana Sramika Rythu (YSR) Congress.  In 2014, the YSR Congress had won only Prathipadu assembly seat, while Polavaram, Ponnur, and Prathipadu (SC) seats were cliched by the TDP. However, Pithapuram assembly seat was won by an independent candidate S.V.S.N. Varma. Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Phase I: List of States And Constituencies Voting On April 11.

The last date of filing nomination for the seats was March 25. The scrutiny of nominations papers was done on March 26. Meanwhile, the last date of withdrawal of candidature was March 28. The counting of votes will take place on May 23. Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections 2019 Schedule: Voting on April 11, Result On May 23.

Pithapuram, Polavaram, Ponnur, Prathipadu and Prathipadu_SC Assembly Elections 2019: List of candidates- 

Seat No. Constituency Names TDP YSRC Congress BJP
116 Pithapuram S.V.S.N. VARMA Dorababu Pendem Medidi Venkata Srinivasa Rao Billakurthi Rameswara Reddy
117 Polavaram Boragam Srinivasulu Tellam Bala Raju Kanithi Rama Chandra Sekhar Boragam Venkata Lakshmi
118 Ponnur Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar Venkatroshaiah Kilari Jakka Naga Srinivasa Vara Prasad Cheedepudi Bala Vijaya Bhaskaraa Reddy
119 Prathipadu Varupula Raja Sri Purnachandra Prasad Parvatha Ummidi Venkatrao Chilukuri Ram Kumar
120 Prathipadu_sc Dokka Manikya Varaprasada Rao Mekathoti Sucharitha Korivi. Vinay Kumar Dara Ambedkar

Results of Assembly Elections 2014:

Seat No. Constituency Names Candidate Name Party
116 Pithapuram S.V.S.N. Varma IND
117 Polavaram (ST) Modiyam Srinivasa Rao TDP
118 Ponnur Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar TDP
119 Prathipadu Varupula Subbarao YSRC
120 Prathipadu_sc Ravela Kishore Babu TDP

In 2014, the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election took place on  April 30 and May 7, 2014, to elect members to the legislatures of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The results were declared on May 16, 2014. The TDP led by N. Chandrababu Naidu won a majority of 102 seats out of the total 175 seats in Andhra Pradesh. Meanwhile, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) led by K. Chandrasekhar Rao won in the new state of Telangana.

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