Rae Bareli Election Results 2024: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi registered a massive victory in Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 3,90,030 votes. He garnered 6,87,649 votes against BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 2,97,619 votes. Rae Bareli is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. The state has 80 parliamentary seats. The Rae Bareli seat comprises five Assembly segments including Bachhrawan, Harchandpur, Rae Bareli, Sareni and Unchahar. The constituency is a general seat and not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). As per early trends Congress' Rahul Gandhi leads in this Congress bastion.
Date of polls
The Rae Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh went to polls in the fifth phase on May 20 along with the other 13 constituencies of the state.
Voter turnout
The voter turnout in 2024 was recorded as 58.12 per cent as against 58.2% in 2019 and 51.4% in 2014.
Main parties and candidates
The Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are the main parties in the constituency. Rahul Gandhi, who has contested from Wayanad in Kerala, is also in the fight for Rae Bareli, a Nehru-Gandhi family pocket borough represented by his mother Sonia Gandhi since 2004. The BJP has fielded UP minister Dinesh Pratap Singh.
What happened in 2014 and 2019?
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi won the seat for the fifth time (including a bypoll) in a row with a margin of 1,67,178 votes. She was polled 5,34,918 votes with a vote share of 55.78%. She defeated BJP leader Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 3,67,740 votes (38.35%). The total number of valid votes polled was 9,58,556.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi won the seat for the fourth time including a bypoll. She was polled 5,26,434 votes with a vote share of 63.80%. BJP candidate Ajay Agrawal got 1,73,721 votes (21.05%) and was the runner-up. Gandhi defeated Agrawal by a margin of 3,52,713 votes. The total number of valid votes polled in this constituency was 8,25,136. BSP candidate Pravesh Singh came third with 63,633 votes (7.71%) and Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Archana Srivastava was in the fourth position with 10,383 votes (1.26%).
