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

Kadapa (formerly known as Cuddapah) is one of 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and was dominated by the Communist Party of India in the 1960s before becoming a Congress bastion.

Kadapa registered 77.75 percent voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election 2019, a gain of 1.68 percent from 2014. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1568388 while 1219461 came out to exercise their franchise. While in 2014, the constituency registered 76.07 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1342226 while 1021074 voted.

The first phase of voting in 25 constituencies of Andhra Pradesh ended on April 1. The fate of 17 candidates contesting from Kadapa will be decided on May 23 when counting of votes takes place and the result is declared.

Andhra Pradesh constituencies: All you need to know

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Yeduguri Sandinti Avinash Reddy	Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
2	Chadipirala Adi Narayana Reddy	Telugu Desam
3	Gundlakunta Sreeramulu	Indian National Congress
4	Gujjula Eswaraiah	Communist Party of India
5	Sri Rama Chandra Singareddy	Bharatiya Janata Party
6	Ameen Peeran Shaik	Ambedkar National Congress
7	Lakshmi Reddy Putha	Rajyadhikara Party
8	Pedakala Varalakshmi	Pyramid Party of India
9	Chadipirala Siva Narayana Reddy	Navarang Congress Party
10	Siva Chandra Reddy Komma	Anna YSR Congress Party
11	Chadipiralla Siva Narayana Reddy	Independent
12	Gona Purushottam Reddy	Independent
13	Jakku Chenna Krishna Reddy	Independent
14	Gujjula Eswaraiah	Communist Party of India
15	Nyamatulla Shaik	Independent
16	Peddireddy Showry Subhash Reddy	Independent
17	Venu Gopal Rachineni	Rashtriya Praja Congress (Secular)

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, YSRCP's Avinash Reddy strolled home to an easy win by managing 55.95 percent of the total votes. He defeated TDP's Reddeppagari Srinivasa Reddy by a massive margin of 1,90,323 votes.

Kadapa (formerly known as Cuddapah) is one of 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and was dominated by the Communist Party of India in the 1960s before becoming a Congress bastion. 

From the Lok Sabha election in 1977 till 2009, Congress was indeed the political force to reckon with and managed to win nine out of 10 times. YS Rajashekhar Reddy (YSR), the two-time CM of Andhra Pradesh, ensured that his dominance in Kadapa was quite unchallenged as he secured wins in 1989, 1991, 1996 and 1998.

His younger brother, YS Vivekananda Reddy, took over from where YSR left off and secured wins in 1999 and 2004. YSR's son - Jagan Mohan Reddy - carried forward the family legacy on behalf of Congress before splitting and forming YSRCP.