Vijaywada Lok Sabha constituency of Andhra Pradesh: Full list of candidates, polling dates

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Vijaywada Lok Sabha constituency of Andhra Pradesh.

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Vijaywada is one of 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in Andhra Pradesh. Congress and TDP have almost always swapped powers in Lok Sabha elections here since 1984.

Vijaywada registered 77.14 percent voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election 2019, a gain of 3.68 percent from 2014. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1652662 while 1274904 came out to exercise their franchise. While in 2014, the constituency registered 73.46     percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1468813 while 1079044 voted.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	DILEEP KILARU	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	SRINIVAS KESINENI	Telugu Desam
3	NARAHARISETTY NARASIMHA RAO	Indian National Congress
4	Prasad Veera Potluri	Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
5	ANDUKURI VIJAYA BHASKAR	India Praja Bandhu Party
6	LURTHU MERI DAILA	Mundadugu Praja Party
7	SIVA PRASAD PADALA	Navarang Congress Party
8	MUTTAMASETTY LAKSHMANA SIVA PRASAD BABU	Janasena Party
9	MADABATHULA CHANDRA SEKHAR	Pyramid Party of India
10	RIYAZ DADA MIYA SHAIK	Indian Union Muslim League
11	Anil Kumar Maddineni	Independent
12	GANDHI DHANEKULA	Independent
13	Nandini Nallaghatla	Independent
14	Bolisetty Hari Babu	Independent
15	MOHAMMAD ISHAQ	Independent

The Congress party was absolutely humiliated in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Avinash Devineni managed to secure only 39,751 or 3.33 per cent of the votes and Congress was relegated to a distant third. It was TDP's Kesineni Srinivas who crossed the finish line first with 592,696 votes, ahead of YSRCP's Konery Rajendra Prasad.

Much would depend on how the over 15 lakh voters here favour.