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{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency
| name = Kurupam
| state = [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| district = [[Vizianagaram district|Vizianagaram]]
| electorate = 183,830
| year = 2019
| reserved = [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|ST]]
| mla = [[Pushpasreevani Pamula]]
| party = [[YSR Congress Party]]
| parl_name = [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
}}

'''Kurupam Assembly constituency''' is an [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|ST]] reserved constituency in [[Vizianagaram district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]], representing the [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly|state legislative assembly]] in [[India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ceoandhra.nic.in/ceoap_new/ceo/documents/Electors_Summary%20_25.03.2019.pdf|title=Electors Summary|date=25 May 2019|website=Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref> It is one of the seven assembly segments of [[Araku (Lok Sabha constituency)|Araku]] [[Araku (ST) (Lok Sabha constituency)|(ST)]] (Lok Sabha constituency), along with [[Palakonda (ST)(Assembly constituency)|Palakonda]], [[Parvathipuram (SC) (Assembly constituency)|Parvathipuram]], [[Salur (Assembly constituency)|Salur]], [[Araku Valley (ST)(Assembly constituency)|Araku Valley (ST)]], [[Paderu (ST) (Assembly constituency)|Paderu (ST)]] and [[Rampachodavaram (ST)(Assembly constituency)|Rampachodavaram]].<ref name="constituencies">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|title=Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008|date=17 December 2018|website=The Election Commission of India|pages=16, 30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003220916/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|archive-date=3 October 2018|url-status=dead|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref>

[[Pushpasreevani Pamula]] is the current [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of the constituency, who won the [[2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]] from [[YSR Congress Party]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Assembly Election 2019 |url=http://results.eci.gov.in/ac/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS011.htm |website=Election Commission of India |access-date=24 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524074223/http://results.eci.gov.in/ac/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS011.htm |archive-date=24 May 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{As of|2019|03|25}}, there a total of 183,830 electors in the constituency.<ref name="electors">{{cite web|url=http://ceoandhra.nic.in/ceoap_new/ceo/documents/Electors_Summary%20_25.03.2019.pdf|title=Electors Summary|date=25 May 2019|website=Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref>

== Mandals ==
The five [[Tehsil|mandals]] that forms the assembly constituency are:<ref name="constituencies" />

{{srn}}
{|class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers static-row-header-hash"
!Mandal
|-
| [[Kurupam]]
|-
| Gummalakshmipuram
|-
| [[Jiyyammavalasa]]
|-
| [[Komarada]]
|-
| [[Garugubilli]]
|}

== Members of Legislative Assembly Naguru ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Member
! colspan="2" | Political party
|-
| 1955
| Addakula Lakshmu Naidu
| {{Full party name with color|Independent politician}}
|-
| 1962
| Addakula Lakshmu Naidu
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1967
| Sri Satrucharla Prathap Rudra Raju
| {{Full party name with color|Swatantra Party}}
|-
| 1972
| Vyricherla Chandra Chudamani Deo
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1978
| Satrucharla Vijaya Rama Raju
| {{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
| 1983
| Satrucharla Vijaya Rama Raju
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1985
| Satrucharla Vijaya Rama Raju
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1989
| Satrucharla Chandrasekhara Raju
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 1994
| Nimmaka Jaya Raju
| {{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|-
| 1999
| Satrucharla Vijaya Rama Raju
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 2004
| Kolaka Lakshmana Murthy
| {{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|}

== Members of Legislative Assembly Kurupam ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Member
! colspan="2" | Political party
|-
| 2009
| Veera Vara Todarmal Janardhan Thatraj
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
| 2014
| [[Pushpasreevani Pamula]]
| {{Full party name with color|YSR Congress Party}}
|-
| 2019
| [[Pushpasreevani Pamula]]
| {{Full party name with color|YSR Congress Party}}
|}

== Election results ==
=== Assembly Elections 2009 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2009 Andhra Pradesh state assembly elections]]: Kurupam}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Janardhan Thatraj Veeravaratodramala
|votes = 48,493
|percentage = 41.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Praja Rajyam Party
|candidate = Nimmaka Jayaraju
|votes = 33,440
|percentage = 28.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Kolaka Laxmana Murthy
|votes = 23,707
|percentage = 20.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Nimmaka Vasudeva Rao
|votes = 4,471
|percentage = 3.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Puvvala Saraswathi
|votes = 2,584
|percentage = 2.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 15,053
|percentage = 12.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,17,104
|percentage = 72.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box new seat win|
|winner = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== Assembly Elections 2014 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Kurupam}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = YSR Congress Party
|candidate = [[Pushpasreevani Pamula]]
|votes = 55,435
|percentage = 42.3
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Telugu Desam Party
|candidate = Janardhan Thatraj Veeravaratodramala
|votes = 36,532
|percentage = 27.7
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Jayaraju Nimmaka
|votes = 26,044
|percentage = 19.9
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Kolaka Laxmana Murthy
|votes = 5,689
|percentage = 4.3
|change = {{decrease}}16.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Palaka Ranjith Kumar
|votes = 2,626
|percentage = 2.0
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Erramilli Indrasena Vardhan
|votes = 2,594
|percentage = 2.0
|change = {{decrease}}39.4
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 19,083
|percentage = 14.3
|change = {{increase}}1.4
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,33,254
|percentage = 75.7
|change = {{increase}}3.7
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = YSR Congress Party
|loser = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== Assembly Elections 2019 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: Kurupam}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = YSR Congress Party
|candidate = [[Pushpasreevani Pamula]]
|votes = 74,527
|percentage = 53.7
|change = {{increase}}11.4
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Telugu Desam Party
|candidate = Janardhan Thatraj Veeravaratodramala
|votes = 47,925
|percentage = 34.6
|change = {{increase}}6.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Avinash Kumar Kolaka
|votes = 8,605
|percentage = 6.2
|change = {{increase}}1.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Nimmaka Jayaraju
|votes = 4,204
|percentage = 3.0
|change = ''New''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = Nimmaka Simhachalam
|votes = 2,204
|percentage = 1.6
|change = {{decrease}}0.4
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 26,602
|percentage = 19.2
|change = {{increase}}4.9
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,38,723
|percentage = 77.8
|change = {{increase}}2.1
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = YSR Congress Party
|swing = {{increase}}2.25
}}
{{Election box end}}

== See also ==
* [[List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Vizianagaram district]]

Kurupam Assembly constituency - Revision history

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