Rae Bareli (Lok Sabha constituency)

Rae Bareli
Rae Bareli
Lok Sabha Constituency
	Sonia Gandhi, current MP of Rae Bareli
Incumbent	Sonia Gandhi
Parliamentary Party	Indian National Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1952–present
Reservation	None
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly Constituencies	Bachhrawan; Harchandpur; Rae Bareli ; Sareni ; Unchahar

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Rae Bareli is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is considered a bastion of the Indian National Congress.

Vidhan Sabha segments[edit]

Presently, Rae Bareli comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These are:^[1]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
177	Bachhrawan	SC	Raebareli
179	Harchandpur	None	Raebareli
180	Rae Bareli	None	Raebareli
182	Sareni	None	Raebareli
183	Unchahar	None	Raebareli

Members of Lok Sabha[edit]

Election	Member
1952 (4 candidates elected)	B N Kureel Feroze Gandhi Vishambhar Dayal Swami Ramanand	All from Indian National Congress^[2]
1957 (2 candidates elected)	Baij Nath Kureel Feroze Gandhi (Died in 1960)	Both from Congress
1960 ^	R P Singh (bye-poll to replace Feroze Gandhi)	Indian National Congress
1962	R. P. Singh
1967	Indira Gandhi
1971	Indira Gandhi
1977	Raj Narain	Janata Party
1980	Indira Gandhi Retained Medak seat	Indian National Congress
1980 (bye-poll)	Arun Nehru
1984	Sheila Kaul
1989
1991
1996	Ashok Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Ashok Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Satish Sharma	Indian National Congress
2004	Sonia Gandhi Resigned on a technicality.
2006 by-poll	Sonia Gandhi (re-elected) ^[3]
2009	Sonia Gandhi
2014
2019

Election results[edit]

General Election 1957[edit]

Winner 1/2 Feroze Gandhi (INC) : 162,595 votes ^[4]
- - - defeated Nand Kishore (IND) : 133,342
- AND
Baij Nath Kureel (INC) : 126,318 votes
- - - defeated Chhote Lal (Jana Sangh) : 100,651

Bye-poll 1960[edit]

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

General Election 1971[edit]

1971 Indian general election: Rae Bareli^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Indira Nehru Gandhi	183,309	66.35%
	[[Samyukta Socialist Party\|Template:Samyukta Socialist Party/meta/shortname]]	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

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 1977[edit]

1977 Indian general election: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	[[Bharatiya Lok Dal\|Template:Bharatiya Lok Dal/meta/shortname]]	Raj Narain	1,77,719	53.51
	INC	Indira Gandhi	1,22,517	36.89
	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			3,32,122	52.48
	Bharatiya Lok Dal gain from INC		Swing

This time the incumbent Prime minister Indira Gandhi lost to her opponent, the only such instance to date until 2019.

General Election 1980[edit]

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[edit]

A.K.Nehru (Indira Congress) 176,456
Janeshwar Mishra (Charan Singh's JNP(S)) : 69,166
Details of some elections (1984 to 1991) missing from this page

General Election 1996[edit]

1996 Indian general election: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Ashok Singh	1,63,390	33.93
	JD	Ashok Singh	1,29,503	26.90
	BSP	Babulal Lodhi	1,19,422	24.80
	INC	Vikram Kaul	25,457	5.29
	Independent	Ravendra Bahadur Singh	8,752	1.82
Majority			33,887	7.03
Turnout			4,81,482	41.38
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

General Election 1998[edit]

1998 Indian general election: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Ashok Singh	2,37,204	36.15
	SP	Surendra Bahadur Singh	1,96,482	29.94
	BSP	Ramesh Kumar Maurya	1,30,342	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			6,56,147	56.04
	BJP hold		Swing

General Election 1999[edit]

1999 Indian general election: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Capt. Satish Sharma	2,24,202	32.76
	SP	Gajadhar Singh	1,50,653	22.01
	BSP	Anand Prakash Lodhi	1,37,775	20.13
	BJP	Arun Kumar Nehru	1,36,217	19.90
	AD	Babu Lal Kushwaha	8,058	1.18
	Independent	Arshad Ali Khan	7,466	1.09
Majority			73,549	10.75
Turnout			6,84,461	58.27
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

General Election 2004[edit]

2004 Indian general elections: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	3,78,107	58.75
	SP	Ashok Kumar Singh	1,28,342	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			2,49,765	38.81
Turnout			6,43,560	48.42
	INC hold		Swing

Bye-election 2006[edit]

By-election, 2006: Rae Bareli^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	4,74,891	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 2009[edit]

2009 Indian general elections: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	4,81,490	72.23	-8.26
	BSP	R. S. Kushwaha	1,09,325	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			3,72,165	55.83	-15.00
Turnout			6,66,648	48.33	+5.03
	INC hold		Swing	-8.26

General Election 2014[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Rae Bareli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sonia Gandhi	5,26,434	63.80	-8.43
	BJP	Ajay Agarwal	1,73,721	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			3,52,713	42.75	-13.08
Turnout			8,25,142	51.73	+3.40
	INC hold		Swing	-8.43

General Election 2019[edit]

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
	ABP(D)	Ashok Pratap Maurya Urf Shobhnath	9,459	0.99	+0.99
Majority			1,67,178	17.44	-25.31
Turnout			9,59,022	56.34	+4.61
	INC hold		Swing	-8.00

Notes[edit]

↑ "Information and Statistics-Parliamentary Constituencies-36-Rae Bareli". Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh website.
↑ http://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1951-election-results.html
↑ "Sonia Gandhi to face bypoll on May 8". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
↑ https://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1957-election-results.html
↑ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 1971 to the Fifth Lok Sabha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
↑ "Rae Bareli Lok Sabha". Elections.in. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
↑ "Sonia strides to victory with record margin". Rediff. 11 May 2006.

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

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

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

[2] ttp://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1951-election-results.html

[3] "Sonia Gandhi to face bypoll on May 8". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

[4] ttps://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1957-election-results.html

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

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

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

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