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                                   2019AndhraPradesh
                            Legislatve  Assembly                                           Elections



Assembly Elections are due to be held in Andhra Pradesh on 11th April 2019 to constitute the fifteenth Legislative Assembly. These elections are to be held con-currently with the Indian general election, 2019.



TeluguDesam Party chiefminister

N. Chandrababu Naidu,

Janasena party chief 
   
Pawan Kalyan

YSR Congress Party Chief

Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

are the main opponents.


Previous Assembly
In the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, the Telugu Desam Party led by former chief minister and opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu emerged as the single largest party with 103 seats while 88 were required for majority out of 175 seats for AP. Naidu was invited to form the government as part of the fourteenth Andhra Pradesh assembly by Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana E. S. L. Narasimhan. It was the first assembly in Andhra Pradesh after the bifurcation of the state into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Background
The TDP's withdrawal from the National Democratic Alliance in March 2018[2] following the disputes between the TDP and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regarding the Special Category Status (SCS) and has resulted in competition between the two parties. A few weeks later, the BJP announced that they will contest in all 175 assembly constituencies in the state.[3] Head of YSR Congress Party and leader of the opposition in the fourteenth assembly, Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy has been campaigning in the state since November 2017. As part of the campaign, Reddy had walked over 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) on foot, across the state as of Oct 2018.[4] Meanwhile, Pawan Kalyan's JSP had been gaining significant support in Uttarandhra (North Coastal Andhra Pradesh).[5][6]

Election Day

Andhra Pradesh
The election is going to be held in single phase on 11th April for 175 assembly and 25 parliamentary constituencies.