Gudivada (Assembly constituency)


Gudivada Assembly constituency is a constituency in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, representing the state legislative assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Machilipatnam, along with Gannavaram, Pedana, Machilipatnam, Avanigadda, Pamarru SC and Penamaluru.Katari Eswar Kumar is the youngest cabinet minister of combined states who represented Gudivada.Katari's father late Katari Satyam Garu was known for his charishma in state politics as he was one of the veteran Congress leaders.Even Indira Gandhiji used to praise Katari Satyam Garu and named him as Ukku Katari.He contested against actor turned politician Sr NTR and lost by 1800 votes. Both Katari and Kodali were having good relationship as Guru-Sishyas. Ex-Minister Katari Eswar Kumar is one of the veteran politicians of Andhra Pradesh.He contested and won for the first time in 1989 against Raavi Sobhanadri Chowdary.Upon his victory he got his place in chenna reddy cabinet as minister. He contested as independent in 1999 and bagged 19000 votes where Nandamuri Hari Krishna lost his deposits in the same election. He has a huge name and fame among weaker sections and has huge yadav community following. He is carrying his father Late Shri Katari Satyanarayana's legacy who worked as Municipal Chairman once and as MLA for twice and also donated high worth lands for government purposes. He is known as BC leader.Eswar Katari had studied M.Com and was very loyal to democracy and rules. Even existing MLA Kodali Nani treats Katari as his "Guru"'Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao'' is the present MLA of the constituency, who won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from YSR Congress Party., there a total of 208,305 electors in the constituency.
Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao of YSR Congress Party is currently representing the constituency.

Mandals

The three mandals that forms the assembly constituency are:
S.NoMandal Name
1Gudlavalleru
2Gudivada
3Nandivada

Member of Legislative Assembly

Election results

Assembly Elections 2004

Assembly Elections 2009

Assembly elections 2014

Assembly Elections 2019