The battle for the Machilipatnam Lok Sabha (LS) seat is going to be between the businessman-turned-politician Vallabhaneni Balashowry of the Jana Sena Party (JSP) and the YSR Congress Party’s (YSRCP) Simhadri Chandrasekhara Rao, an accomplished surgical oncologist based in Hyderabad.
Once a stronghold of the Congress, the constituency has been dominated by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) since the 1984 general elections. Of the nine elections held since then, the TDP won five times and the Congress thrice. The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) won the election held in 2019.
