Khammam Lok Sabha constituency

Khammam
TG-17
Khammam ; TG-17
Lok Sabha constituency
	Khammam Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Telangana
Assembly constituencies	Khammam; Palair; Madhira; Wyra; Sathupalle; Kothagudem; Aswaraopeta
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Ramasahayam Raghuram Reddy
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

Map of the Indian Loksabha constituency of Khammam, Telangana

Khammam Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 17 Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Parliament) constituencies in Telangana state in southern India.^[1]

Ramasahayam Raghuram Reddy of Indian National Congress is currently representing the constituency for First time.

Overview

Since its inception in 1952 Khammam seat is Congress strong hold where it has won 12 times various other political outfits like Communist Party of India, Telugu Desam Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and YSR Congress Party have won it during different general elections.

Assembly segments

Khammam presently comprises the following Legislative Assembly segments:^[1]

No	Name	District	Member
112	Khammam	Khammam	Thummala Nageswara Rao	INC	INC
113	Palair		Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy
114	Madhira (SC)		Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka
115	Wyra (ST)		Ramdas Maloth
116	Sathupalli (SC)		Matta Ragamayee
117	Kothagudem	Bhadradri Kothagudem	Kunamneni Sambasiva Rao	CPI
118	Aswaraopeta (ST)	Bhadradri Kothagudem	Jare Adinarayana	INC

Members of Parliament

Year	Member
Hyderabad State
1952	T. B. Vittal Rao	People's Democratic Front (Hyderabad)
Andhra Pradesh
1957	T. B. Vittal Rao	Communist Party of India
1962	T. Lakshmi Kantamma	Indian National Congress
1967
1971
1977	Jalagam Kondala Rao
1980	Jalagam Kondala Rao	Indian National Congress
1984	Jalagam Vengala Rao	Indian National Congress
1989	Jalagam Vengala Rao
1991	P. V. Rangaiah Naidu
1996	Tammineni Veerabhadram	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1998	Nadendla Bhaskara Rao	Indian National Congress
1999	Renuka Chowdhary
2004	Renuka Chowdhary
2009	Nama Nageswara Rao	Telugu Desam Party
Telangana
2014	Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy	YSR Congress Party
2019	Nama Nageswara Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
2024	Ramasahayam Raghuram Reddy	Indian National Congress

Election results

Vote share of Winning candidates

2024			61.29%
2019			49.78%
2014			35.68%
2009			45.39%
2004			50.63%
1999			35.85%
1998			40.30%
1996			42.82%
1991			44.20%
1989			49.68%
1984			44.70%
1980			42.13%
1977			51.30%
1971			36.94%
1967			53.12%
1962			49.78%
1957			44.27%
1952			53.82%

2024

2024 Indian general election: Khammam^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	R. Raghuram Reddy	766,929	61.29	26.25
	BRS	Nama Nageswara Rao	299,082	23.90	25.88
	BJP	Vinod Rao Tandra	118,636	9.48	7.68
	NOTA	None of the above	6,782	0.54	0.85
	BSP	Adv. Yerra Kaamesh	6,101	0.49
	IND	24 Independent Candidates	43,512	3.48
	OTH	7 Other Party Candidates	10,241	0.82
Majority			467,847	37.39	22.65
Turnout			1,251,283	76.67	1.37
	INC gain from TRS		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general election: Khammam^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TRS	Nama Nageswara Rao	567,459	49.78	42.25
	INC	Renuka Chowdhury	399,397	35.04
	CPI(M)	Boda Venkat	57,102	5.01
	BJP	Devaki Vasudeva Rao	20,488	1.80
	JSP	Narala Satyanarayana	19,315	1.69
	NOTA	None of the above	15,832	1.39	0.97
	IND	13 Independent Candidates	51,852	4.55
	OTH	5 Other Party Candidates	8,386	0.74
Majority			168,062	14.74	13.71
Turnout			1,139,848	75.30	6.90
	TRS gain from YSRCP		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	YSRCP	Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy	422,434	35.68
	TDP	Nama Nageswara Rao	410,230	34.65	10.74
	CPI	Kankanala Narayana	187,702	15.86
	TRS	Budan Baig Shaik	89,124	7.53
	JSP	Nagarjuna Cherukuru	5,002	0.42
	NOTA	None of the above	4,991	0.42
	BSP	Dodda Ram Babu	4,761	0.40	0.21
	PPOI	Medarametla Rama Rao	4,139	0.35	0.02
	IND	20 Independent Candidates	55,466	4.69
Majority			12,204	1.03	11.00
Turnout			1,183,849	82.20
	YSRCP gain from TDP		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Nama Nageswara Rao	469,368	45.39	5.40
	INC	Renuka Chowdhury	344,920	33.36	17.27
	PRP	Jalagam Hemamalini	131,135	12.68
	LSP	Jupelli Satyanarayana	12,143	1.17
	BJP	Kapilavai Ravinder	9,644	0.93
	BSP	Thondapu Venkateswara Rao	6,302	0.61
	PPOI	Manukonda Raghuram Prasad	3,868	0.37	0.63
	TPPP	Shaik Madar Saheb	3,036	0.29
	IND	5 Independent Candidates	53,593	5.18
Majority			124,448	12.03	1.39
Turnout
	TDP gain from INC		Swing

2004

2004 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Renuka Chowdhury	518,047	50.63	14.78
	TDP	Nama Nageswara Rao	409,159	39.99	5.06
	IND	Aruna Chandra	50,619	4.95
	IND	Burra Venkanna	14,552	1.42
	PPOI	Nalajala Saroja	10,255	1.00
	IND	Padiga Yerraiah	8,316	0.81
	IND	Nama Naik Islavath	5,899	0.58
	MRS	Pittala Venkata Narasaiah Mudira	3,345	0.33
	IND	Banoth Somla Naik	2,985	0.29
Majority			108,888	10.64	9.72
Turnout			1,023,177	78.79	1.61
	INC hold		Swing

1999

1999 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Renuka Chowdhury	328,596	35.85	4.45
	TDP	Baby Swarna Kumari Maddineni	320,198	34.93
	CPI(M)	Guguloth Dharma	184,422	20.12	18.89
	IND	Aruna Chandra	52,971	5.78
	MCPI(S)	Matte Gurumurthy	15,129	1.65
	AJBP	G. Muralidhar	2,779	0.30
	IND	Eda Seshagiri Rao	2,029	0.22
	JD(S)	Gopagani Shankar Rao	1,997	0.22
	IND	5 Independent Candidates	8,450	0.92
Majority			8,398	0.92	0.37
Turnout			948,088	77.18	2.53
	INC hold		Swing

1998

1998 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. Bhaskara Rao	363,747	40.30	4.71
	CPI(M)	Tammineni Veerabhadram	352,083	39.01	3.81
	BJP	Dharavath Ravinder Naik	117,926	13.07	9.78
	IND	Aruna Chandra	55,624	6.16
	IND	4 Independent Candidates	13,116	1.45
Majority			11,664	1.29	5.94
Turnout			917,369	74.65	2.01
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1996

1996 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Tammineni Veerabhadram	374,675	42.82	0.55
	INC	P. V. Rangayya Naidu	311,384	35.59	8.61
	NTDP	Koneru Nageswara Rao	75,072	8.58
	IND	Sadineni Venkateswarlu	45,749	5.23
	BJP	Jayachandra Reddy Reddyvari	28,823	3.29	1.49
	AIIC(T)	Khadaar Ali Sayyad	1,467	0.17
	IND	22 Independent Candidates	37,831	4.33
Majority			63,291	7.23	6.40
Turnout			895,441	72.64	2.46
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

1991

1991 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	P. V. Rangayya Naidu	316,186	44.20	5.48
	CPI(M)	Tammineni Veerabhadram	310,268	43.37	1.27
	IND	Gaddam Venkatramayya	45,999	6.43
	BJP	Ali Khadar Sayyad	12,852	1.80
	JP	Arvapalli Vidya Sagar	2,596	0.36
	BSP	Suryanarayana Jamgeti	1,208	0.17
	IND	12 Independent Candidates	26,319	3.68
Majority			5,918	0.83	6.75
Turnout			732,650	70.18	8.20
	INC hold		Swing

1989

1989 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Jalagam Vengala Rao	388,461	49.68	4.98
	CPI(M)	Y. Radhakrishna Murthy	329,209	42.10	21.79
	IND	Gaddam Venkatramalah	49,862	6.38
	IND	Padiga Yerraiah	7,493	0.96
	IND	Gandhuri Lalaiah	6,908	0.88
Majority			59,252	7.58	8.09
Turnout			813,657	78.38	3.11
	INC hold		Swing

1984

1984 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Jalagam Vengala Rao	261,056	44.70	2.57
	CPI	Nallamala Prasad Rao	169,557	29.04
	CPI(M)	Parsa Satyanarayana	118,609	20.31	1.00
	IND	Kandala Narsimha Reddy	30,126	5.16
	IND	Chinthirala Joga Rao	3,725	0.64
	IND	Banoth Laxma Nayak	895	0.15
Majority			91,499	15.67	4.29
Turnout			596,809	75.27	5.26
	INC hold		Swing

1980

1980 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC(I)	Jalagam Kondala Rao	201,559	42.13	9.17
	INC(U)	Upendraiah Samineni	106,076	22.17
	CPI(M)	Y. Radhakrishna Murthy	101,959	21.31	8.85
	IND	Maddi China Venkat Reddy	32,378	6.77
	IND	B. Lakshmi Naik	12,840	2.68
	IND	K. Ram Mohan Rao	12,181	2.55
	IND	Kama John	5,007	1.05
	IND	Anuapurna Visalaksi Aluri	3,807	0.80
	IND	Lingala Jamalaiah	2,643	0.55
Majority			95,483	19.96	1.18
Turnout			491,008	70.01	0.37
	INC(I) hold		Swing

1977

1977 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Jalagam Kondala Rao	208,617	51.30	14.36
	CPI(M)	Y. Radhakrishna Murthy	122,628	30.16	5.50
	CPI	Nallamala Prasada Rao	72,530	17.84
	IND	K. I. Vidya Sagar	2,868	0.71
Majority			85,989	21.14	16.73
Turnout			419,829	70.38	0.24
	INC hold		Swing

1971

1971 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Lakshmi Kantamma	137,830	36.94	16.18
	TPS	Chekuri Kasaiah	121,369	32.53
	CPI(M)	Manchikanti Ram Kishan Rao	92,012	24.66	1.03
	IND	Kama John	12,333	3.31
	TEC	Kannekanti Sreenivas Rao	5,313	1.42
	INC(O)	Gogineni Satyanarayana Rao	4,246	1.14
Majority			16,461	4.41	25.08
Turnout			381,802	70.14	8.72
	INC hold		Swing

1967

1967 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Lakshmi Kantamma	200,534	53.12	3.34
	CPI(M)	M. K. Rao	89,206	23.63
	CPI	R. Janakiramayya	67,068	17.76	28.35
	ABJS	M. Narasimharao	20,730	5.49
Majority			111,328	29.49	25.82
Turnout			392,684	78.86	3.61
	INC hold		Swing

1962

1962 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Lakshmi Kantamma	163,806	49.78	7.81
	CPI	T. B. Vittal Rao	151,746	46.11
	IND	Golla Venkateswarlu	13,529	4.11
Majority			12,060	3.67	1.37
Turnout			339,103	75.25	11.28
	INC gain from PDF		Swing

1957

1957 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PDF	T. B. Vittal Rao	106,627	44.27	9.55
	INC	Kolipak Kishan Rao	101,090	41.97	26.77
	IND	P. Veeriah	23,842	9.90
	IND	Kondapalli Srinivasa Rao	9,278	3.85
Majority			5,537	2.30	36.32
Turnout			240,837	63.97	10.89
	PDF hold		Swing

1952

1951–52 Indian general election: Khammam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PDF	T. B. Vittal Rao	101,223	53.82
	INC	Gadiurm Krishna Reddy	28,591	15.20
	IND	K. Saayanarayana Rao	16,360	8.70
	Socialist	Devulopalli Ramanuja Rao	15,527	8.26
	IND	Ram Kishore	13,332	7.09
	IND	R. Shankarayya	13,031	6.93
Majority			72,632	38.62
Turnout			188,064	53.08
	PDF win (new seat)

Trivia

Jalagam Vengala Rao, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh represented the constituency in Eighth and Ninth Lok Sabha respectively.
Nadendla Bhaskara Rao, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh represented the constituency in Twelfth Lok Sabha.

References

1 2 "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 30.
↑ The New Indian Express (5 June 2024). "Bizman Raghuram helps Congress secure historic win in Khammam". Archived from the original on 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
↑ EENADU (30 April 2024). "అత్యధిక మెజార్టీ నామాదే" (in Telugu). Archived from the original on 30 April 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2024.

External links

Khammam lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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[ceo-1] 1 2 "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 30.

[Bizman_Raghuram_helps_Congress_secure_historic_win_in_Khammam-2] The New Indian Express (5 June 2024). "Bizman Raghuram helps Congress secure historic win in Khammam". Archived from the original on 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.

[అత్యధిక_మెజార్టీ_నామాదే-3] EENADU (30 April 2024). "అత్యధిక మెజార్టీ నామాదే" (in Telugu). Archived from the original on 30 April 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2024.

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