After 17 general elections since its formation in 1951, the Chittoor Lok Sabha constituency remains one of the most backward areas in the country. Making it an SC-Reserved constituency in 2009 or the trifurcation of the 103-year-old Chittoor district in 2022 has not changed the fate of the people here.
Of the 17 general elections from 1952 till 2019, the Chittoor Lok Sabha seat was wrested by the Indian National Congress nine times, the Telugu Desam Party seven times and the YSR Congress Party once.
The last time the Congress won from here was in 1991, after losing to the Telugu Desam Party for the first time in the previous election in 1984, which was the debut of N.T. Rama Rao’s TDP in the general elections.
