Raebareli and Amethi Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh witnessed a high-stakes battle for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the INDIA bloc, with both fielding their top leaders to take on each other.
Congress's Rahul Gandhi was in the fray in family bastion Raebareli, while BJP's Smriti Irani was seeking re-election from Amethi, where she defeated Rahul Gandhi in 2019
Raebareli and Amethi Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh witnessed a high-stakes battle for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the INDIA bloc, with both fielding their top leaders to take on each other.
Congress's Rahul Gandhi was in the fray in family bastion Raebareli, while BJP's Smriti Irani was seeking re-election from Amethi, where she defeated Rahul Gandhi in 2019.
Raebareli constituency is made up of five assembly constituency segments. These assemblies are in Bachhrawan, Harchandpur, Raebareli, Sareni, and Unchahar.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won the Raebareli seat by defeating BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh with a margin of 3,90,030 votes.
Amethi, a significant Parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, comprises five assembly constituency segments within the Chhatrapathi Shahuji Maharaj gar district, including Tiloi, Salon, Jagdishpur, Gauriganj, and Amthi.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha Election, the BJP nominated Smriti Irani, a trusted ally, while the Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi passed on his legacy to Kishori Lal.
The polling for the Amethi Parliamentary constituency took place on May 20, 2024.
Congress' Kishori Lal Sharma defeated BJP's Smriti Irani in Amethi by over 1.6 lakh votes.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Smriti Irani of the BJP secured victory with 4,67,598 votes, defeating the INC's Rahul Gandhi.
The margin of victory stood at 54,731 votes. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi of the Congress emerged victorious with 4,08,650 votes, while the BJP's Smriti Irani was the runner-up. The margin of victory in that election was 107,903 votes.