What is the history of Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat?
Rae Bareli: Preparations for Lok Sabha elections 2024 are in full swing from all parties. This time there will be a new MP from Lok Sabha constituency 36-Rae Bareli. Because Sonia Gandhi, who has been elected several times in the past, will now be seen in the Rajya Sabha. There is speculation that Rahul Gandhi or Priyanka Gandhi will contest from this seat. There are six assembly seats in the district, Bachhrawan, Harchandpur, Rae Bareli, Sareni, Unchahar and Salon. All these are under the control of SP-BJP. Congress could not win a single seat in the 2022 assembly elections.
Which category has the highest number of voters?
Rae Bareli has the highest population of SC category (Dalit), Brahmin and Rajput voters. Here Brahmins are 11 percent, Thakurs are 9 percent, Yadavs are 7 percent, SC category is 34 percent. Whereas the number of Muslim voters is 6 percent. At the same time, Lodh-6, Kurmi-4 and other categories have a total population of 23 percent.
There were so many voters in 2019
Earlier in the Lok Sabha elections held in 2019, there were 779813 voters here, out of which 870954 were male and 779813 were female voters.
Who won the election in 2019
Rae Bareli has been a stronghold of Congress for many years. The Gandhi family has been contesting elections from this seat for a long time. Sonia Gandhi has been MP from this seat for a long time. In 2019, Congress candidate Sonia Gandhi defeated BJP’s Dinesh Singh by more than 1.5 lakh votes. Sonia got a total of 5,34,918.
Who won the election in 2014
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Sonia defeated BJP’s Ajay Agarwal by more than three and a half lakh votes. Sonia got about 63 percent votes i.e. 5,26,434 votes. BSP was at third place. SP had not fielded a candidate.
Sonia Gandhi has been winning continuously since 2004
Sonia Gandhi first contested elections in Rae Bareli in 2004 and kept winning elections continuously from then till 2019. SP was not fielding candidates in support of Sonia Gandhi. This time in 2024, Sonia Gandhi will not contest elections from Rae Bareli because now she has been elected to Rajya Sabha.
When were the elections held in the year 2014-2019?
Lok Sabha elections were held in Rae Bareli in 2019 in the fifth phase on 6 May. The Election Commission had conducted voting in seven phases. Whereas in 2014, the Lok Sabha elections were held here on 30 April.
When were the results released in 2014-19
In the year 2019, the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections took place on 23 May. The election results were declared in Rae Bareli on the same day. Whereas, in 2014 the results were declared on 16 May.
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