Palasa Assembly constituency

Palasa Assembly constituency is a constituency in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh that elects representatives to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in India. It is one of the seven assembly segments of Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency.

Gouthu Sireesha is the current MLA, having won the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Telugu Desam Party. As of 2019, there are a total of 204,109 electors in the constituency.[needs update] The constituency was established in 2008, as per the Delimitation Orders (2008).

Mandals

The three mandals that form the assembly constituency.

2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Palasa (2,22,378)
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Gouthu Sireesha	101,560	45.67	16.48
	YSRCP	Seediri Appalaraju	61,210	27.53	9.51
		Remaining	2,503	1.12	1.08
	NOTA	None of the above	2,762	1.24	0.23
Turnout	1,68,035	75.56	2.69
Registered electors	2,22,378
Majority	40,350	18.14
	TDP gain from YSRCP	Swing

2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Palasa (2,06,799)
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Gouthu Sireesha	60,356	29.19	7.29
	YSRCP	Seediri Appalaraju	76,603	37.04	9.73
	JSP	Kotha Purnachandra Rao	6,133	2.97	New
		Remaining	4,555	2.2	4.56
	NOTA	None of the above	3,044	1.47	1.09
Turnout	1,50,691	72.87	0.96
Registered electors	2,06,799
Majority	16,247	7.85
	YSRCP gain from TDP	Swing

2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Palasa
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TDP	Syam Sunder Sivaji Gouthu	69,658	36.48
	YSRCP	Baburao Vajja	52,133	27.31	New
	INC	Nageswara Rao Vanka	1,863	0.98
		Remaining	12,912	6.76
	NOTA	None of the above	728	0.38
Turnout	1,37,294	71.91
Registered electors	1,90,925
Majority	17,525	9.17
	TDP gain from INC	Swing

2009 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Palasa
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Juttu Jagannaikulu	47,931	40.5
	TDP	Syam Sunder Sivaji Gouthu	41,117	34.8
	PRP	Nageswara Rao Vanka	22,213	18.8	New
Majority	6,814	5.8
Turnout	118,288	73.7
	INC win (new seat)