Vemsoor

Vemsoor
Mandal
Country India
StateTelangana
DistrictKhammam
MandalVemsoor
Languages
 • OfficialTelugu
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
507164
Telephone code08761
Vehicle registrationTS 04
Nearest citySathupalli
Lok Sabha constituencyKhammam
Vidhan Sabha constituencyVemsoor (1952-1972)
Vidhan Sabha constituencySathupalli (from 1978)
Climatetropical (Köppen)

Vemsoor(Telugu: వేంసూరు) is a village and mandal in Khammam district of Telangana, India and falls under Kalluru revenue division.[1] The majority of the Vemsoor region is agrarian. Most of the people are farmers, peasants and daily laborers. The predominant crops grown in this region are rice, corn, tomatoes, red chilies, vegetables, mangoes, cashew etc. As a mandal headquarters it has several mandal administrative offices. It also has an Andhra bank branch.

Election history

Up to 1948, Hyderabad State was a princely state after merging in Indian union on 17 September 1948 and named Hyderabad State in the first election in India in 1952. Vemsoor was an assembly constituency from 1951 to 1978. In 1967, Jalagam Vengal Rao won assembly elections second time from Vemsoor and in 1968 he became State Home Minister in the state government headed by Kasu Brahmananda Reddy and also he became chief minister from same constituency.

The following are election results of the Vemsoor assembly constituency from 1952 to 1972:

1952

1 Kandimalla Ramakrishna Rao M IND 16092 44.43% Won
2 Jalagam Vengala Rao M IND 15543 42.92% Lost
3 Bommakanti Satyanarayana Rao M INC 4580 12.65% Lost

ELECTORS : 51987 VOTERS : 36215 POLL PERCENTAGE : 69.66% VALID VOTES 36215

1957

1 Jalagam Kondal Rao M INC 24680 56.79% Won
2 Vattikonda Nageswara Rao M PDF 16943 38.99% Lost
3 K. Srinivasa Rao M IND 1834 4.22% Lost

ELECTORS : 57461 VOTERS : 43457 POLL PERCENTAGE : 75.63% VALID VOTES 43457

1962

1 Jalagam Vengala Rao M INC 36436 64.78% Won
2 Vattikonda Nageswara Rao M CPI 17853 31.74% Lost
3 Poranki Venkat Raju M IND 1960 3.48% Lost

ELECTORS : 67732 VOTERS : 57794 POLL PERCENTAGE : 85.33% VALID VOTES 56249

1967

1 Jalagam Vengala Rao M INC 37595 70.66% Won
2 Morampudi Venkaiah M IND 13220 24.85% Lost
3 P. V. Raju M IND 2391 4.49% Lost

ELECTORS : 69466 VOTERS : 55617 POLL PERCENTAGE : 80.06% VALID VOTES : 53206

1972

1 Jalagam Vengala Rao M INC 47173 80.24% Won
2 Ravi Veera Venkaiah M IND 9101 15.48% Lost
3 Poranki Venkat Raju M IND 2518 4.28% Lost

ELECTORS : 85233 VOTERS : 60378 POLL PERCENTAGE : 70.84% VALID VOTES : 58792

Demographics

  • Total population: 42,908 in 10,337 households
  • Male population: 21,845
  • Female population: 21,063
  • Children under 6 years of age: 5,220 (Boys - 2,683 and Girls - 2,537)
  • Total literates: 22,079
  • Vemsoor has facilities including a government hospital, a police station and a revenue office.

References

  1. ^ "RDO /Muncipal Commisioners/Tehsildars | Khammam District | India". Retrieved 7 June 2023.


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