2019 Adhra Pradesh Lok Sabha and Assembly Elections - Polling kicks today for the 25 LS seats and 175 assembly seats Thursday April 11,2019

This is the first general election in the state after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014

There are over 3.93 crore voters, of whom 10 lakh are first-timers.

They will exercise their franchise in 46,120 polling stations.

In Andhra Pradesh, 2,118 candidates are in the fray for the 175 Assembly seats, while 319 contenders are testing their luck for 25 parliamentary seats.


In Andhra Pradesh, strong anti-incumbency, caste and corruption are the major factors that could determine the outcome of the elections to Lok Sabha and the state assembly as over 3.93 crore voters will exercise their franchise.

Incumbent Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party chief and CM N Chandrababu Naidu will be seeking election from Kuppam, while his son Nara Lokesh is making his electoral debut from Mangalagiri.

YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy, an aspirant for the CM's post, is fighting from his family's pocket borough Pulivendula.

Chief Minister of Telangana K. Chandrashekar Rao gets his finger marked with indelible ink after casting his vote during the first phase of general elections at Medak district in Telangana

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president KT Rama Rao and his wife show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote during the first phase of the general elections, at Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad

TDP President and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his family members show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote during the first phase of the general elections, in Amaravati.