Amethi UP-37
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Amethi Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Tiloi Salon Jagdishpur Gauriganj Amethi
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Kishori Lal Sharma
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

Amethi is one of the 80Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) constituencies in the Indian state ofUttar Pradesh.^[1] This constituency covers the entireAmethi district and was created in 1967.^[2] Like its neighbouring constituencyRae Bareli, it is considered to be a bastion of theIndian National Congress. Its firstmember of parliament (MP) wasVidya Dhar Bajpai of theIndian National Congress (INC) who was elected in 1967 and held his seat in the next election in 1971. In the 1977 election,Ravindra Pratap Singh of theJanata Party became its MP. Singh was defeated in 1980 bySanjay Gandhi of the INC. Later the same year, Gandhi died in a plane crash.^[3] This forced aby election in 1981 which was won by his brother,Rajiv Gandhi.^[4] Gandhi went on to represent this constituency until 1991, when he wasassassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).^[5][6][7] The subsequent by election held the same year was won bySatish Sharma of the INC. Sharma was re-elected in 1996.Sanjaya Sinh of theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated Sharma in the 1998 election. The widow of Rajiv Gandhi,Sonia Gandhi represented this constituency from 1999 to 2004.^[8] Her son,Rahul Gandhi, was elected in 2004.^[9] He was the fourth MP from theNehru–Gandhi family since 1980 to represent the seat.^[10] Gandhi held the seat till the 2019 election when he was defeated by a margin of 55,000 votes by the BJP'sSmriti Irani.^[11] Irani was defeated in 2024 by a margin of over 1.67 lakh votes byKishori Lal Sharma of theIndian National Congress.^[12]

Presently, Amethi Lok Sabha constituency comprises fiveVidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:Tiloi,Salon,Jagdishpur,Gauriganj andAmethi. This constituency is surrounded byBara Banki andFaizabad in the north,Rae Bareli to the west,Sultanpur to the east andPratapgarh to the south.^[13]

Kishori Lal Sharma from theINC won in the18th Lok Sabha defeating theUnion MinisterSmriti Irani^[14][15]

2024 Indian general election:Amethi^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kishori Lal Sharma	539,288	54.99	11.03
	BJP	Smriti Irani	3,72,032	37.94	11.70
	BSP	Nanhe Singh Chauhan	34,534	3.52	3.52
	NOTA	None of the above	9,383	0.96	0.54
Majority			1,67,196	16.52	10.67
Turnout			9,80,671	54.60	0.52
Registered electors			17,96,098
	INCgain fromBJP		Swing	0.26

Smriti Irani from theBJP won in theSeventeenth Lok Sabha.^[17]

2019 Indian general election:Amethi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Smriti Irani	468,514	49.71	15.33
	INC	Rahul Gandhi	413,394	43.84	2.85
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,940	0.42	0.22
Margin of victory			55,120	5.85	6.48
Turnout			9,42,956	54.08	+1.69
	BJPgain fromINC		Swing	3.00

Rahul Gandhi won a third term as MP in theSixteenth Lok Sabha.^[9]

2014 Indian general election:Amethi^[18][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rahul Gandhi	408,651	46.71	25.07
	BJP	Smriti Irani	300,748	34.38	28.57
	BSP	Dharmendra Pratap Singh	57,716	6.60	7.94
	AAP	Dr. Kumar Vishvas	25,527	2.92	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,784	0.20	N/A
Margin of victory			1,07,903	12.33	32.83
Turnout			8,74,872	52.39	7.22
	INChold		Swing	26.82

Rahul Gandhi held the seat and represented the constituency in theFifteenth Lok Sabha.^[20]

Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi's son, won the seat and represented the constituency in theFourteenth Lok Sabha.^[9][21]

Sonia Gandhi, the wife of Rajiv Gandhi, won the election and represented the constituency in theThirteenth Lok Sabha.^[8]

Sanjaya Sinh of the BJP won the election and represented the constituency in theTwelfth Lok Sabha.^[23]

Satish Sharma held the seat and represented the constituency in theEleventh Lok Sabha.^[24]

Satish Sharma of the INC won the election and represented the constituency in theTenth Lok Sabha.^[25]

Rajiv Gandhi won the election, but he wasassassinated on 21 May 1991 a few days after the polling in Amethi and even before other rounds of polling were completed. The election process was postponed for a few days and votes were eventually counted in June 1991. He was declared winner after his death, but a bye-election had to be called.^[7][26]

Rajiv Gandhi won a third term in the election and represented the constituency in theNinth Lok Sabha. He was challenged byRajmohan Gandhi, grandson ofMahatma Gandhi.^[27]

Rajiv Gandhi held the seat and represented the constituency in theEighth Lok Sabha. He defeated his sister-in-lawManeka Gandhi by a margin of 314,878 votes or 72.17%, the highest till now for a sitting prime minister.^[28][29]

Rajiv Gandhi, Sanjay's brother, won the by-election and represented the constituency in theSeventh Lok Sabha.^[4][25]

Sanjay Gandhi of the INC won the election. He died in a plane crash later in the year, forcing a by-election in 1981.^[3]

Ravindra Pratap Singh of theJanata Party represented the constituency in theSixth Lok Sabha.^[31]

Bajpai held the seat and represented the constituency in theFifth Lok Sabha.^[32]

1971 Indian general election:Amethi^[32]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vidya Dhar Bajpai	96,312	62.13	26.32
	ABJS	Gokul Prasad Pathak	21,335	13.76	19.98
	INC(O)	Wast Nabvi	19,051	12.29	N/A
	Bharatiya Kranti Dal	Kailash Nath Singh	11,787	7.60	N/A
	RRP	Basudev Shastri	6,541	4.22	N/A
Margin of victory			74,977	48.37	46.30
Turnout			160,395	30.05	7.29
	INChold		Swing	26.32

Vidya Dhar Bajpai of the INC won the first election in 1967 and became Amethi's first MP.^[33]

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