Kovvur Assembly constituency
Kovvur is a Scheduled Castes and [Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Caste] reserved constituency in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Rajahmundry [Lok Sabha constituency].
Muppidi [Venkateswara Rao] is the current Member of [Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA] of the constituency, having won the 2024 [Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election] from Telugu Desam Party. As of 2019, there are a total of 176,409 electors in the constituency. The constituency was established in 1951, as per the Delimitation Orders .
History
It is considered a stronghold of TDP, which won all the election battles here since its inception in 1983 except in 1999 when congress won with sufficient majority. Currently, Taneti Vanita is the present Kovvur constituency's MLA, who won 2019 Assembly elections against Vangalapudi Anitha with a majority of 25,248 votes.Mandals
The three mandals that form the assembly constituency are:| Mandal |
| Kovvur |
| Chagallu, [West Godavari district|Chagallu] |
| Tallapudi |