2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
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All 175 seats in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
88 seats needed for a majority
Registered39,405,937
Turnout31,680,063 (80.39%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Shri Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.jpg
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Leader Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy N. Chandrababu Naidu Pawan Kalyan
Party YSRCP TDP JSP
Alliance – – JSP+
Leader since 2011 1995 2014
Leader's seat Pulivendla (won) Kuppam (won) Bhimavaram (lost),
Gajuwaka (lost)
Last election 67 seats, 44.60%[1] 102 seats, 44.90%[1] Party did not contest
Seats won 151 23 1
Seat change Increase 84 Decrease 79 Increase 1
Popular vote 15,688,569 12,304,668 1,736,811
Percentage 49.95% 39.17% 5.53%
Swing Increase 5.35% Decrease 5.73% New party
Chief Minister before election

N. Chandrababu Naidu
TDP

Chief Minister after election

Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
YSRCP

The 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election were held in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 2019 for constituting the fifteenth legislative assembly in the state. They were held alongside the 2019 Indian general election.[2]

The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) won the election in a landslide, winning 151 of the 175 seats, with the incumbent Telugu Desam Party (TDP) winning 23. The Jana Sena Party (JSP) entered the legislature with one seat, while the Indian National Congress (INC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) failed to win any seats.

Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was unanimously voted as legislature leader of the YSRCP, and was invited to form the government by the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, E. S. L. Narasimhan. This was the second assembly in Andhra Pradesh after the bifurcation of the state into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

  1. ^ a b "IndiaVotes AC: Party-wise performance for 2014". IndiaVotes. Archived from the original on 4 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  2. ^ Desk, India com News (29 April 2019). "Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election 2019: Everything You Need to Know About The CM Race". India.com. Retrieved 6 June 2019.