1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

The 1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was held in January 1983 for all 294 constituencies in Andhra Pradesh, India. The elections were conducted to elect the government in the state of Andhra Pradesh for the following five years. The TDP secured a huge majority winning 202 seats. The Indian National Congress secured only 60 seats. The election was held in January 1983 instead of August 1983 as scheduled. N. T. Rama Rao was sworn in as the 10th and the first non-Congress Chief Minister of the state on 9 January 1983 with ten cabinet ministers and five ministers of State.

1983 United Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

5 January 1983 (1983-01-05)
294 seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority
Registered	31,846,694
Turnout	21,560,642 (67.70%) 5.22%
Majority party Minority party   Leader N. T. Rama Rao Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Party TDP INC Leader's seat Gudivada and Tirupati Yemmiganur Last election Party did not exist 175 Seats won 201 60 Seat change new party 115 Popular vote 9,777,222 7,090,907 Percentage 46.30% 33.58% Swing new party 5.67%
Chief minister before election Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy INC Elected Chief minister N. T. Rama Rao TDP

Results

Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Telugu Desam Party	9,777,222	46.30	new party	201	new party
	Indian National Congress	7,090,907	33.58	5.67%	60	115
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	425,109	2.01	0.70%	5	3
	Communist Party of India	588,144	2.79	0.30%	4	2
	Bharatiya Janata Party	582,464	2.76	new party	3	new party
	Janata Party	203,478	0.96	27.89%	1	59
	Indian National Congress (Jagjivan)	119,372	0.57	new party	1	new party
	Lok Dal	193,880	0.92	new party	0	new party
	Indian Congress (Socialist)	44,288	0.21	new party	0	new party
	Independents	2,092,247	9.91	0.71%	19	4
Total		21,117,111	100.00	–	294
Valid votes		21,117,111	97.94
Invalid/blank votes		443,531	2.06
Total votes		21,560,642	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		31,846,694	67.70

List of Assembly constituencies and winners

No.	Constituency	Winner	Party
1	Icchapuram	Mandava Venkata Krishna Rao		TDP
2	Sompeta	Majji Narayana Rao		INC
3	Tekkali	Attada Janardhana Rao		TDP
4	Harishchandrapuram	Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu		TDP
5	Narasannapeta	Simma Prabhakara Rao		TDP
6	Pathapatnam	Tota Tulasida Naidu		TDP
7	Kothuru (ST)	Gopalarao Nimmaka		TDP
8	Naguru (ST)	Vijayaramaraju Sathrucherla		INC
9	Parvathipuram	Venkataraminaidu Mariserla		TDP
10	Salur (ST)	Boniya Rajaiah		TDP
11	Bobbili	Sambangi Venkata China Appalanaidu		TDP
12	Therlam	Jayaprakash Thendu		TDP
13	Vunukuru	Kimidi Kalavenkatarao		TDP
14	Palakonda (SC)	Syama Rao Gonipati		TDP
15	Amadalavalasa	Thammineni Seetharam		TDP
16	Srikakulam	Thangi Satyanarayana		TDP
17	Etcherla (SC)	Kavali Prathibha Bharathi		TDP
18	Cheepurupalli	Tripurana Venkata Ratnam		TDP
19	Gajapathinagaram	Jampana Satyanarayana Raju		TDP
20	Vizianagaram	Ashok Gajapathi Raju		TDP
21	Sathivada	Sambasivaraju Penumatsa		INC
22	Bhogapuram	Pathivada Narayana Swamy Naidu		TDP
23	Bheemunipatnam	Ananda Gajapathi Raju Pusapati		TDP
24	Visakhapatnam-I	Madhavi Grandhi		TDP
25	Visakhapatnam-II	Vasudevarao Eswarapu		TDP
26	Pendurthi	Appalanarasimham Patakamsetti		TDP
27	Uttarapalli	Kolla Appalamaidu		TDP
28	Srungavarapukota (ST)	Dukku Labudu Bariki		TDP
29	Paderu (ST)	Tammarba Chitti Naidu		INC
30	Madugula	Reddy Satyanarayana		TDP
31	Chodavaram	Gumuru Yerru Naidu		TDP
32	Anakapalli	Raja Kanna Babu		TDP
33	Parawada	Applaneidu Palia		TDP
34	Elamanchili	K. K. V. Satyanarayana Raju		TDP
35	Payakaraopeta (SC)	Sumana Gantela		TDP
36	Narsipatnam	Ayyanna Patrudu Chintakayala		TDP
37	Chintapalli (ST)	Korabu Venkataratnam		TDP
38	Yellavaram (ST)	Jogarao Chinnam		TDP
39	Burugupudi	Pendurthi Sambasiva Rao		TDP
40	Rajahmundry	Gorantala Buchaiah Chowdary		TDP
41	Kadiam	Girajala Venkataswamy Naidu		TDP
42	Jaggampeta	Thota Subbarao		TDP
43	Peddapuram	Balasu Ramarao		TDP
44	Prathipadu	Mudragada Padma Nabham		TDP
45	Tuni	Yanamala Ramakrishnudu		TDP
46	Pithapuram	Nageswara Rao Venna		TDP
47	Sampara	Thirumani Styalinga Nayakar		TDP
48	Kakinada	Gopala Krishna Murthy		TDP
49	Tallarevu	Chikkala Ramachandra Rao		TDP
50	Anaparthy	Nallamilli Moola Reddy		TDP
51	Ramachandrapuram	Ramachandra Raju Sri Raja Kakarlapudi		TDP
52	Alamuru	Narayanamurthy Valluri		TDP
53	Mummidivaram (SC)	Valtati Rajaskkubai		TDP
54	Allavaram (SC)	Jogeswara Venkata Buchi Maheswara Rao Aithabathula		TDP
55	Amalapuram	Satyanarayana Rao		TDP
56	Kothapeta	Chirla Somasundara Reddy		TDP
57	Nagaram (SC)	Undru Krishna Rao		TDP
58	Razole	Alluri Venkata Suryanarayana Raju		TDP
59	Narasapur	Venkataramajogayya Chegondi		TDP
60	Palacole	Allu Venkata Satyanarayana		TDP
61	Achanta (SC)	Kota Bhaskararao		TDP
62	Bhimavaram	Venkata Narasimha Raju Penumatcha		TDP
63	Undi	Kalidindi Ramachandra Raju		TDP
64	Penugonda	Pratti Manema		TDP
65	Tanuku	Chitturi Venkareswara Rao		TDP
66	Attili	Vegesna Kankadurga Venkata Satyanarayana Raju		TDP
67	Tadepalligudem	Anjaneulu Eli		TDP
68	Ungutur	Srinivasa Rao Kantamani		TDP
69	Dendulur	Garapati Sambasiva Rao		TDP
70	Eluru	Chennakesavulu Rangarao		TDP
71	Gopalpuram (SC)	Karupati Vivekananda		TDP
72	Kovvur	Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao		TDP
73	Polavaram (ST)	Modiam Lakshmana Rao		TDP
74	Chintalapudi	Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao		IND
75	Jaggayyapet	Akkinemi Lokeswara Rao		TDP
76	Nandigama	Vasantha Nagesawararao		TDP
77	Vijayawada West	Jayaraju B. S.		TDP
78	Vijayawada East	Adusumilli Jaiprakasha Rao		TDP
79	Kankipadu	Devineni Rajasekhar		TDP
80	Mylavaram	Nimmagadda Satyanarayana		TDP
81	Tiruvuru (SC)	Poornanand Miryala		TDP
82	Nuzvid	Kotagiri Hanumantha Rao		IND
83	Gannavaram	Ratnabose Musunnuru		TDP
84	Vuyyur	K. P. Reddaiah		INC
85	Gudivada	Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao		TDP
86	Mudinepalli	Pinnamaneni Koteswara Rao		INC
87	Kaikalur	Kanumuru Bapiraju		INC
88	Malleswaram	Ankem Prabhakararao		TDP
89	Bandar	Borra Venkataswami		TDP
90	Nidumolu (SC)	Govada Mallikharjuna Rao		TDP
91	Avanigadda	Venkata Krishna Rao Mandali		INC
92	Kuchinapudi	Mopidevi Nagabhushanam		TDP
93	Repalle	Yadla Venkata Rao		TDP
94	Vemuru	Nadendla Bhaskara Rao		TDP
95	Duggirala	Venkata Sivarama Krishna Reddy Mareddy		IND
96	Tenali	Annabathuni Satyanarayana		TDP
97	Ponnur	Dhulipalla Veeraiah Choudhry		TDP
98	Bapatla	C. V. Ramaraju		TDP
99	Prathipad	Makineni Peda Rathaiah		TDP
100	Guntur-I	Umaru Kanu Patanu		TDP
101	Guntur-II	Nissankararao Venkataratnam		TDP
102	Mangalagiri	Koteswara Rao		TDP
103	Tadikonda (SC)	J. R. Pushpa Raju		TDP
104	Sattenapalli	Nannapaneni Raja Kumari		TDP
105	Peddakurapadu	Viseswara Rao Allamsetti		TDP
106	Gurzala	Nagireddy Julakanti		TDP
107	Macherla	Korrapati Subbarao		TDP
108	Vinukonda	Gangieneni Venkateswara Rao		IND
109	Narasaraopet	Siva Prasada Rao Kodela		TDP
110	Chilakaluripet	Krishna Murthy Kaza		TDP
111	Chirala	Chimataq Sambu		TDP
112	Parchur	Daggubati Choudary		TDP
113	Martur	Gottipati Hanumantha Rao		TDP
114	Addanki	Bachina Chenchu Garataiah		TDP
115	Ongole	Panugupati Koteswara Rao		TDP
116	Santhanuthalapadu (SC)	Aareti Kotaiah		TDP
117	Kandukur	Adinarayana Reddy Manugunta		IND
118	Kanigiri	Mukku Kasi Reddy		TDP
119	Kondepi	Moorubhooyina Malakondaiah		TDP
120	Cumbum	Kamdula Nagarjuna Reddy		INC
121	Darsi	Katuri Narayana Swamy		TDP
122	Markapur	Narayana Reddy V. V.		TDP
123	Giddalur	Mudiyam Pirareddy		IND
124	Udayagiri	Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu		BJP
125	Kavali	Patallapalli Vengal Rao		TDP
126	Allur	Bezawada Papireddy		TDP
127	Kovur	Nallapareddy Sreenivasulu Reddy		TDP
128	Atmakur	Anam Venkata Reddy		TDP
129	Rapur	Adinarayana Reddy Mali Reddy		TDP
130	Nellore	Anam Ramanarayana Reddy		TDP
131	Sarvepalli	Pechala Reddy Chenna Reddy		TDP
132	Gudur (SC)	Jogi Masthanaiah		TDP
133	Sulurpet (SC)	Satti Prakasham		TDP
134	Venkatagiri	Chandrasekhara Reddy Nallareddi		TDP
135	Sri Kalahasti	Adduru Dasaradharami Reddy		TDP
136	Satyavedu (SC)	Manohar Talari		TDP
137	Nagari	E. V. Gopal Raju (Elavarti)		TDP
138	Puttur	Muddukrishnama Naidu, Gali		TDP
139	Vepanjeri (SC)	Talari Rudraiah		TDP
140	Chittoor	Jhansi Laxmi		TDP
141	Palmaner (SC)	Anjineyulu		TDP
142	Kuppam	N. Rangaswami Naidu		TDP
143	Punganur	Baggidi Gopal		TDP
144	Madanpalle	Ratahanda Narayana Reddy		NA
145	Thamballapalle	T. N. Srinivasa Reddy		IND
146	Vayalpad	Chinthala Surendra Reddy		TDP
147	Pileru	Challa Prabhakara Reddy		TDP
148	Chandragiri	Venkatarama Naidu Medasani		TDP
149	Tirupathi	N. T. Rama Rao		TDP
150	Kodur (SC)	Srinivasulu Settipalli		TDP
151	Rajampet	Konduru Prabhavthamma		INC
152	Rayachoty	Palakondrayudu Sugavasi		IND
153	Lakkireddipalli	Rajagopal Reddy		TDP
154	Cuddapah	Ramamuni Reddy S.		TDP
155	Badvel	Veerareddy Bijivemula		ICJ
156	Mydukur	Ravindrareddi Duggireddi Laxmi Reddigari		INC
157	Proddatur	Mallela Ramanareddy		TDP
158	Jammalamadugu	Ponnapureddy Sivareddy		TDP
159	Kamalapuram	Vaddamani Venkata Reddy		TDP
160	Pulivendla	Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy		INC
161	Kadiri	Shakeer		TDP
162	Nallamada	K. Ramachandra Reddy		TDP
163	Gorantla	Kessana V.		TDP
164	Hindupur	P. Ranganayakulu		TDP
165	Madakasira	Y. C. Thimma Reddy		INC
166	Penukonda	S. Ramachandra Reddy		TDP
167	Kalyandrug (SC)	T. C. Mareppa		TDP
168	Rayadrug	P. Venngopal Reddy		IND
169	Uravakonda	Bheema Reddy Y.		TDP
170	Gooty	Pathi Rajagopalu		TDP
171	Singanamala (SC)	P. Gurumurthy		TDP
172	Anantapur	D. Narayanaswamy		TDP
173	Dhamavaram	G. Nagi Reddy		TDP
174	Tadpatri	Mutyala Kesava Reddy		TDP
175	Alur (SC)	K. Basappa		TDP
176	Adoni	N. Prakash Jain		TDP
177	Yemmiganur	Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy		INC
178	Kodumur (SC)	Muniswamy		INC
179	Kurnool	Rambhoopal Choudary V.		INC
180	Pattikonda	Thamma Reddy M.		INC
181	Dhone	K. E. Krishna Murthy		TDP
182	Koilkuntla	Narasimha Reddy B.		TDP
183	Allagadda	S. V. Subba Reddi		TDP
184	Panyam	Challa Ramakrishna Reddy		TDP
185	Nandikotkur	Byreddy Seshasayana Reddy		IND
186	Nandyal	M. Sanjeeva Reddy		TDP
187	Atmakur	Vengala Reddy (Budda)		TDP
188	Achampet (SC)	Mahendranath Puttapaga		TDP
189	Nagarkurnool	V. N. Goud		INC
190	Kalwakurthi	S. Jaipal Reddy		JP
191	Shadnagar (SC)	Shankar Rao		INC
192	Jadcherla	Krishna Reddy		TDP
193	Mahbubnagar	P. Chandra Shekar		TDP
194	Wanaparthy	Balakistaiah		TDP
195	Kollapur	Venkateswar Rao Kotha		INC
196	Alampur	Rajini Babu		TDP
197	Gadwal	D. K. Samarasimha Reddy		INC
198	Amarchinta	Ismailu Mohammad		TDP
199	Makthal	G. Narasimhulu Naidu		INC
200	Kodangal	Gurunath Reddy		INC
201	Tandur	M. Manik Rao		INC
202	Vicarabad (SC)	K. R. Krishna Swamy		INC
203	Pargi	Ahmed Shareef (S/O Abdul Gani)		INC
204	Chevella	Konda Lakxhma Reddy		INC
205	Ibrahimpatnam (SC)	A. G. Krishna		INC
206	Musheerabad	S. Rajeswar		TDP
207	Himayatnagar	G. Narayana Rao (Goud)		TDP
208	Sanathnagar	Katragadda Prasuna		TDP
209	Secunderabad	M. Krishna Rao		TDP
210	Khairatabad	M. Ramchander Rao		TDP
211	Secunderabad Cantonment	N. A. Krishna		TDP
212	Malakpet	Indrasena Reddy		BJP
213	Asafnagar	Afzal Shareef		IND
214	Maharajgunj	P. Rama Swamy		TDP
215	Karwan	Baqer Agha		IND
216	Yakutpura	Khaja Abu Sayeed		IND
217	Chandrayangutta	Mohd. Amanullah Khan		IND
218	Charminar	Sultan Salahuddin Owasi		IND
219	Medchal	Uma Venkatarama Reddy		INC
220	Siddipet	Ananthula Madan Mohan		INC
221	Dommat	Aireni Lingaiah		INC
222	Gajwel (SC)	Allam Sailu		TDP
223	Narsapur	Jagannath Rao C.		INC
224	Sangareddy	P. Ramchandra Reddy		IND
225	Zahirabad	M. Baga Reddy		INC
226	Narayankhed	M. Venkata Reddy		TDP
227	Medak	Karnam Ramchandra Rao		TDP
228	Ramayampet	T. Anjaiah		INC
229	Andole (SC)	Hadkar Laxmanjee		INC
230	Balkonda	G. Madhusidhan Reddy		TDP
231	Armoor	Shanigaram Santosh Reddy		INC
232	Kamareddy	Parsi Gangaiah		TDP
233	Yellareddy	Kishan Reddy		TDP
234	Jukkal (SC)	Gangaram		INC
235	Banswada	Kishan Singh		TDP
236	Bodhan	D. Sambasiva Rao		TDP
237	Nizamabad	D. Satyanarayana		TDP
238	Dichpalli	Mandava M. J. Thomas Chowdary		TDP
239	Mudhole	Gaddenna		INC
240	Nirmal	Aindla Bheema Reddy		TDP
241	Boath (ST)	Kasiram Marsakota		INC
242	Adilabad	Chilkuri Vaman Reddy		IND
243	Khanapur (ST)	Ambajee		INC
244	Asifabad (SC)	Gunda Mallesh		CPI
245	Luxettipet	Madavarapu Murali Manohar Rao		TDP
246	Sirpur	K. V. Narayan Rao		TDP
247	Chinnur (SC)	Sothuku Sanjeev Rao		TDP
248	Manthani	Duddilla Sripada Rao		INC
249	Peddapalli	Gone Prakash Rao		TDP
250	Mydaram (SC)	Mathangi Narsaiah		TDP
251	Huzurabad	Kotha Raji Reddy		TDP
252	Kamalapur	Madadi Ramachandra Reddy		INC
253	Indurthi	Lakshmikanth Rao Bopparaju		INC
254	Karimnagar	K. Murtunjayam		TDP
255	Choppadandi	Gurram Madhava Reddy		TDP
256	Jagtial	Jeevan Reddy Tatiparithi		TDP
257	Buggaram	Kadakuntla Gangaram		INC
258	Metpalli	Vardineni Venkateswar Rao		INC
259	Sircilla	Vachidi Mohan Reddy		TDP
260	Narella (SC)	Pati Rajan		INC
261	Cheriyal	Raji Reddy Nimma		TDP
262	Jangaon	Laxma Reddy Rondla		TDP
263	Chennur	Nemeragommula Yethiraja Rao		INC
264	Dornakal	Ramasahayam Surender Reddy		INC
265	Mahbubabad	Janarreddy Janardhan Reddy		INC
266	Narsampet	Omkar Maddikayala		CPI(M)
267	Wardhannapet	Jagannadham Macherla		INC
268	Ghanpur (SC)	Goka Ramaswamy		INC
269	Warangal	Bandaru Nagabhushan Rao		TDP
270	Hanamkonda	Sangam Reddy Satyanarayana		TDP
271	Shyampet	Chandupatla Janga Reddy		BJP
272	Parkal (SC)	Sammaiah Bochu		INC
273	Mulug (ST)	Porika Jagan Naik		INC
274	Bhadrachalam (ST)	Yerraiah Reddi Murla		CPI (M)
275	Burgampahad (ST)	Vooke Abbiah		CPI
276	Kothagudem	Nageswara Rao Koneru		TDP
277	Sathupalli	Jalagam Prasada Rac		INC
278	Madhira	Seelam Siddha Reddy		INC
279	Palair (SC)	Bheemapaka Bhupathi Rao		CPI
280	Khammam	Manchikanti Ramkrishna Rao		CPI (M)
281	Shujatnagar	Mohd. Rajabali		CPI
282	Yellandu (ST)	Narasaiah Gummadi		IND
283	Tungaturthi	Swarajyam Mallu		CPI (M)
284	Suryapet (SC)	Eda Deviah		TDP
285	Kodad	Veerapalli Laxminarayana Rao		TDP
286	Miryalguda	Sreenivasa Rao Chankilam		INC
287	Chalakurthi	Kunduru Jana Reddy		TDP
288	Nakrekal	Narra Raghava Reddy		CPI (M)
289	Nalgonda	Gutha Mohan Reddy		IND
290	Ramannapet	Papaiah Kommu		INC
291	Alair (SC)	Mothkupalli Narsimhulu		TDP
292	Bhongir	Kommidi Narasimha Reddy		INC
293	Mungode	Goverdhan Reddy Palvai		INC
294	Deverkonda (ST)	D. Ravindra Naik		INC