Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency

Rae Bareli
UP-36
Rae Bareli ; UP-36
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Bachhrawan; Harchandpur; Rae Bareli ; Sareni ; Unchahar
Established	1952–present
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Rahul Gandhi
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Sonia Gandhi; Indian National Congress

Rae Bareli is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is considered to be a bastion of the Indian National Congress. First Member of Parliament was Baijnath Kureel. From 1967 to 1977, the seat was held by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and from 2004 until her appointment to the Rajya Sabha in 2024, by Sonia Gandhi.

Most Successful parties from Raebareli Lok Sabha

INC (18 Times) (85.71%)

BJP (2 Times) (9.52%)

Janata Party (1 time) (4.76%)

Demographics and assembly segments

The constituency has an electorate of 9.59 lakhs in 2019 of which nearly 30% belongs to Scheduled Castes, 12% Muslims,16% Yadavs.^[1]

Presently, Rae Bareli comprises five Assembly (legislative assembly) segments. These are:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member
177	Bachhrawan (SC)	Raebareli	Shyam Sunder	Samajwadi Party	Indian National Congress
179	Harchandpur		Rahul Rajput	Samajwadi Party	Indian National Congress
180	Rae Bareli		Aditi Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	Indian National Congress
182	Sareni		Devendra Pratap Singh	Samajwadi Party	Indian National Congress
183	Unchahar		Manoj Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party	Indian National Congress

Members of Lok Sabha

Year	Member
1952	Feroze Gandhi	Indian National Congress^[3]
1957	Feroze Gandhi
1960^	R P Singh
1962	Baijnath Kureel
1967	Indira Gandhi
1971	Indira Gandhi
1977	Raj Narain	Janata Party
1980	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
1980^	Arun Nehru
1984	Arun Nehru
1989	Sheila Kaul
1991	Sheila Kaul
1996	Ashok Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Ashok Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Satish Sharma	Indian National Congress
2004	Sonia Gandhi
2006^
2009
2014
2019
2024	Rahul Gandhi

^By-Poll

Election results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Rae Bareli^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rahul Gandhi	687,649	66.17	10.37
	BJP	Dinesh Pratap Singh	297,619	28.64	9.72
	BSP	Thakur Prasad Yadav	21,624	2.08	2.08
	NOTA	None of the above	7,872	0.76	0.31
Majority			390,030	37.61	20.17
Turnout			10,369,97	58.04	1.70
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	534,918	55.80	−8.00
	BJP	Dinesh Pratap Singh	367,740	38.36	+17.31
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,252	1.07	+0.41
Majority			167,178	17.44	−25.39
Turnout			959,022	56.34	+4.61
	INC hold		Swing	-8.00

General Election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	526,434	63.80	−8.43
	BJP	Ajay Agarwal	173,721	21.05	+17.23
	BSP	Pravesh Singh	63,633	7.71	−8.69
	AAP	Archana Srivastava	10,383	1.26	N/A
	IND.	Shakil Ahamad	7,914	0.96	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	5,409	0.66	N/A
Majority			352,713	42.75	−13.08
Turnout			825,142	51.73	+3.40
	INC hold		Swing	-8.43

General Election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	481,490	72.23	+8.26
	BSP	R. S. Kushwaha	109,325	16.40	N/A
	BJP	R. B. Singh	25,444	3.82	+0.49
	AD	Anil Kumar Maurya	12,321	1.85	N/A
	IND.	Hori Lal	10,073	1.51	N/A
Majority			372,165	55.83	−15.00
Turnout			666,648	48.33	+5.03
	INC hold		Swing	-8.26

General Election 2004

2004 Indian general elections: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	378,107	58.75
	SP	Ashok Kumar Singh	128,342	19.94
	BSP	Rajesh Yadav	57,543	8.94
	BJP	Girish Narayan Panday	31,290	4.86
	Independent	Hori Lal	15,160	2.36
	AD	Indra Pal Singh	9,969	1.55
Majority			249,765	38.81
Turnout			643,560	48.42
	INC hold		Swing

By-election 2006

By-election, 2006: Rae Bareli^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	474,891	80.49
	SP	Raj Kumar	57,003	9.66
	BJP	Vinay Katiyar	19,657	3.33
	RJP	Deepa	8,336	1.41
	Independent	Sunder Lal	6,780	1.15
Majority			4,17,888	70.83
Turnout			5,90,033	43.30
	INC hold		Swing

General Election 1999

1999 Indian general election: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Capt. Satish Sharma	224,202	32.76
	SP	Gajadhar Singh	150,653	22.01
	BSP	Anand Prakash Lodhi	137,775	20.13
	BJP	Arun Kumar Nehru	136,217	19.90
	AD	Babu Lal Kushwaha	8,058	1.18
	Independent	Arshad Ali Khan	7,466	1.09
Majority			73,549	10.75
Turnout			684,461	58.27
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

General Election 1998

1998 Indian general election: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Ashok Singh	237,204	36.15
	SP	Surendra Bahadur Singh	196,482	29.94
	BSP	Ramesh Kumar Maurya	130,342	19.86
	INC	Deepa Kaul	49,615	7.56
	Independent	Ram Kishore	18,787	2.86
	JD	Ram Harsh Verma	12,106	1.85
Majority			40,722	6.21
Turnout			656,147	56.04
	BJP hold		Swing

General Election 1996

1996 Indian general election: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Ashok Singh	163,390	33.93
	JD	Ashok Singh	129,503	26.90
	BSP	Babulal Lodhi	119,422	24.80
	INC	Vikram Kaul	25,457	5.29
	Independent	Ravendra Bahadur Singh	8,752	1.82
Majority			33,887	7.03
Turnout			481,482	41.38
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 1980

Indira Gandhi (Congress) : 2,23,903
Vijayaraje Scindia (Janata Party) : 50,249

Gandhi was also elected from Medak. She retained her seat in Medak and resigned from Rae Bareli.

By-poll in 1980

Arun Nehru INC : 176,456
Janeshwar Mishra JNP(S) : 69,166
Details of some elections (1984 to 1991) missing from this page

General Election 1977

1977 Indian general election: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Raj Narain	177,719	53.51	*New*
	INC	Indira Gandhi	122,517	36.89	29.46
	Independent	P. Nallathampy Terah	9,311	2.80
	Independent	Kamal Ahamad Khan	7,467	2.25
	Independent	Krishna Prasad	4,083	1.23
Majority			55,202	16.62
Turnout			332,122	52.48
	JP gain from INC		Swing

This time the incumbent Prime minister Indira Gandhi lost to her opponent, the only such instance to date.

General Election 1971

1971 Indian general election: Rae Bareli^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Indira Gandhi	183,309	66.35%
	SSP	Raj Narain	71,499	25.88%
	Independent	Swami Adwaita Nand	16,627	6.02%
	Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)	Rameshwar Dutta Manav	4,839	1.75%
Majority			111,810	39.26%
Turnout			284,752	55.22%
Registered electors			515,711
	INC hold		Swing

Gandhi's election was annulled by the Allahabad High Court in June 1975 on a technicality, but the Supreme Court of India overturned the decision following an amendment to the constitution.

General Election 1957

Winner 1/2 Feroze Gandhi (INC) : 162,595 votes ^[9]
- - - defeated Nand Kishore (IND) : 133,342
- AND
Baij Nath Kureel (INC) : 126,318 votes
- - - defeated Chhote Lal (Jana Sangh) : 100,651

By-poll 1960

R.P. Singh (INC) : 104,840 votes
N.B. Singh (JS) : 62,809

Notes

^ Kumar, Mayank (17 May 2024). "Priyanka leads Congress bid to protect its Rae Bareli bastion, eyeing a bigger victory margin with SP on its side". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
^ "Information and Statistics-Parliamentary Constituencies-36-Rae Bareli". Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh website.
^ "1951 India General (1st Lok Sabha) Elections Results".
^ The Hindu (4 June 2024). "Rahul Gandhi wins Rae Bareli LS seat by over 3.9 lakh votes". Archived from the original on 4 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
^ "2024 Raebareli Loksabha Election Result". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 4 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
^ "Rae Bareli Lok Sabha". Elections.in. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
^ "Sonia strides to victory with record margin". Rediff. 11 May 2006.
^ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 1971 to the Fifth Lok Sabha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
^ "1957 India General (2nd Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

Lok Sabha
Vacant since 1966 (Prime Minister in Rajya Sabha) Title last held by Sabarkantha	Constituency represented by the prime minister 1967–1977	Succeeded by Surat

26°14′N 81°15′E / 26.23°N 81.25°E / 26.23; 81.25

[1] Kumar, Mayank (17 May 2024). "Priyanka leads Congress bid to protect its Rae Bareli bastion, eyeing a bigger victory margin with SP on its side". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 20 May 2024.

[2] "Information and Statistics-Parliamentary Constituencies-36-Rae Bareli". Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh website.

[3] "1951 India General (1st Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

[Rahul_Gandhi_wins_Rae_Bareli_LS_seat_by_over_3.9_lakh_votes-4] The Hindu (4 June 2024). "Rahul Gandhi wins Rae Bareli LS seat by over 3.9 lakh votes". Archived from the original on 4 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

[2024_Raebareli_Loksabha_Election_Result-5] "2024 Raebareli Loksabha Election Result". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 4 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

[6] "Rae Bareli Lok Sabha". Elections.in. Retrieved 21 May 2014.

[7] "Sonia strides to victory with record margin". Rediff. 11 May 2006.

[8] "Statistical Report on General Elections, 1971 to the Fifth Lok Sabha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 9 September 2021.

[9] "1957 India General (2nd Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

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