Rae Bareli Election Results 2024: Will this Congress bastion prove lucky for Rahul Gandhi?

Rae Bareli Election Results 2024: Rae Bareli is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies of 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 is not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST).

Date of polls

Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli constituency went to polls in the fifth phase on May 20 along with the other 13 constituencies of the state.

Voting attendance

Turnout in 2024 was 58.12% compared to 58.2% in 2019 and 51.4% in 2014.

Date of results

The result for Rae Bareli will be declared on June 4 along with the other 542 parliamentary constituencies of the country.

Main parties and candidates

Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are the main parties in the constituency. Rahul Gandhi, who contested from Wayanad in Kerala, is also contesting from Rae Bareli, a Nehru-Gandhi family pocket constituency 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 by-poll) in a row by a margin of 1,67,178 votes. She was polled with 5,34,918 votes with a vote share of 55.78%. She defeated BJP leader Dinesh Pratap Singh who secured 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 the by-poll. She was polled with 5,26,434 votes with a vote share of 63.80%. BJP candidate Ajay Agrawal got 1,73,721 votes (21.05%) and was second. 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 came fourth with 10,383 votes (1.26%).