Amethi Lok Sabha Elections 2024
There are 80 Lok Sabha seats in Amethi. This constituency was created in the year 1967. Its first MP was Vidyadhar Bajpai of Congress, who was elected in 1967 and won his seat in the next election in 1971. In the 1977 general election, Ravindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party won from this seat and became the MP of Amethi. Then in 1980, Ravindra Pratap Singh was defeated by Sanjay Gandhi of Congress. Later that year, Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash, leading to a by-election for the seat in 1981, which was won by Sanjay Gandhi’s brother Rajiv Gandhi.
Amethi is the traditional seat of Congress
Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi represented the constituency from the Amethi seat until 1991, when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The by-election for the Amethi seat held in the same year was won by Satish Sharma of the Congress. achieved. ​​Satish Verma won again in 1996 and then in the 1998 elections, Sanjay Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated Sharma. Then late Rajiv Gandhi’s wife, Sonia Gandhi, continuously won the elections from this constituency from 1999 to 2004. After that Sonia and Rajiv’s son, Rahul Gandhi, won from Amethi seat in 2004 but Rahul Gandhi was defeated by BJP’s Smriti Irani in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Scenario of 2014 Lok Sabha elections
According to Election Commission data, there were 17,43,515 voters in the Amethi constituency during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Of these, 9,24,563 voters were male and 8,18,812 were female voters. 140 voters belonged to the third gender. There were 1,472 postal votes in the constituency. The number of service voters in Amethi in 2019 was 2,482 (2,390 were males and 92 were females).
past winners of amethi
Rahul Gandhi (Congress): 2009
Rahul Gandhi (Congress): 2004
Sonia Gandhi (Congress): 1999
Sanjay Singh (BJP): 1998
Satish Sharma (Congress): 1996
Satish Sharma (Congress): 1991 by-election
Rajiv Gandhi (Congress): 1991
Rajiv Gandhi (Congress): 1989
Rajiv Gandhi (Congress): 1984
Rajiv Gandhi (Congress): 1981 by-election
Sanjay Gandhi (Congress): 1980
Ravindra Pratap Singh (BLD): 1977
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