Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency

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.

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

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	Party		2024 Lead
177	Bachhrawan (SC)	Raebareli	Shyam Sunder Bharti		Samajwadi Party		Indian National Congress
179	Harchandpur		Rahul Lodhi 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 Kumar Pandey		Samajwadi Party		Indian National Congress

Members of Lok Sabha

Year	Member	Party
1952	Feroze Gandhi		Indian National Congress[3]
1957
1960^	R P Singh
1962	Baijnath Kureel
1967	Indira Gandhi
1971
1977	Raj Narain		Janata Party
1980	Indira Gandhi		Indian National Congress
1980^	Arun Nehru
1984
1989	Sheila Kaul
1991
1996	Ashok Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
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(K)	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(K)	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(K)	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

1980 Indian general election: Rae Bareli

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Indira Gandhi	223,903	58.27%
	JP	Vijayaraje Scindia	50,249	12.58%
	JP(S)	Mahipal Singh	48,353	13.08%
Majority			173,654	45.19%
Turnout			384,249	56.68%
Registered electors			699,064
	INC hold		Swing

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

See also

• Amethi Lok Sabha constituency
• Raebareli district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha