Amethi Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Congress's KL Sharma retains lead in Amethi constituency, Smriti Irani trailing by 23 thousand votes.

In Uttar Pradesh, the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, a stronghold of the Congress, is witnessing a heated contest this time. Smriti Irani, who resigned from the BJP, is contesting again in this constituency. He was contested by Kishori Lal Sharma from Congress. BSP has also given ticket to Nanhe Singh Chauhan to create a triangular contest. The fifth phase of polling for this constituency was held on May 20. A total of 54.34 percent votes were recorded here. In 2019 too, there was a tough competition between Congress and BJP in this constituency. Then, Smriti Irani, BJP, won the ticket with great difficulty. He got a total of 4 lakh 68 thousand votes. On the other hand, Rahul Gandhi who contested on behalf of the Congress got 4 lakh 13 thousand 394 votes and lost by a margin of 55 thousand votes. Live Updates: 10.59 AM: After the sixth phase, Kishori Lal Sharma's lead has increased to over 23428 votes. Kishori Lal Sharma got 82577 votes and Smriti Irani got 59149 votes. 10.18 AM: Kishori Lal Sharma of Congress is leading by 14997 votes. 10.09 AM: Kishori Lal Sharma is leading in Amethi by 10423 votes. 10.01 AM: Congress's Kishori Lal Sharma secured 31489 votes and Smriti Irani 21899 votes in Amethi constituency. Kishori Lal Sharma is leading by 9590 votes. 9.37 AM: Union Minister Smriti Irani is trailing by more than 3 thousand votes. 9.01 AM: Union Minister Smriti Irani is left behind. 8.00 AM: Counting of votes has also started in Amethi. Mandate 2014: In 2014 too there was competition between Rahul Gandhi and Smriti Irani. At that time, Rahul Gandhi had secured a total of 4 lakh 8 thousand votes as the Congress candidate. On the other hand, Smriti Irani who contested on behalf of BJP got a total of 3 lakh votes and lost by a margin of 1 lakh 7 thousand votes. In that election, BSP also gave ticket to Dharmendra Pratap Singh in this constituency, but he lost his deposit by getting only 57 thousand votes. A Congress stronghold, the constituency was part of the Sultanpur South parliamentary constituency before the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency three decades after independence. In 1962, Muzaffirgana Lok Sabha constituency was formed by amalgamating four assembly constituencies of Sultanpur district and one assembly constituency of Pratapgarh. Later in delimitation in 1972, two assembly constituencies of Rae Bareli district and three assembly constituencies of Sultanpur district were merged to form Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. The first election to this Lok Sabha constituency was held in 1977. At that time, Sanjay Gandhi contested the election on behalf of the Congress, but he lost the election to Rabindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party. In the 1980 Lok Sabha election, he contested again and won and reached Parliament. However, after his death in 1981, a by-election was held and the seat was won by Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi won four consecutive elections from this constituency. Later in the 1991 posthumous by-election, Satish Sharma of the Congress became the MP from this constituency and he retained his seat in the 1996 elections. However, in the 1998 elections, Sanjay Singh wrested this seat from the Congress on a BJP ticket. Sonia Gandhi, who had contested from this constituency in the 1999 elections, vacated the constituency for Rahul Gandhi after winning the election from here. After that, Rahul Gandhi won the 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections from here. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Smriti Irani wrested this seat from Rahul Gandhi on behalf of BJP. Sarath Yadav also contested this Lok Sabha seat in 1981 on behalf of Lokthalam. Although he lost the election to Rajiv Gandhi.