| 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 | |
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| Incumbent | |
| Party |  Indian National Congress |
| Elected year | 2024 |
Amethi is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) constituencies in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.[1] This constituency covers the entire Amethi district and was created in 1967.[2] Like its neighbouring constituency Rae Bareli, it is considered to be a bastion of the Indian National Congress. Its first member of parliament (MP) was Vidya Dhar Bajpai of the Indian 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 the Janata Party became its MP. Singh was defeated in 1980 by Sanjay Gandhi of the INC. Later the same year, Gandhi died in a plane crash.[3] This forced a by election in 1981 which was won by his brother, Rajiv Gandhi.[4] Gandhi went on to represent this constituency until 1991, when he was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).[5][6][7] The subsequent by election held the same year was won by Satish Sharma of the INC. Sharma was re-elected in 1996. Sanjaya Sinh of the Bharatiya 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 the Nehru–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's Smriti Irani.[11] Irani was defeated in 2024 by a margin of over 1.67 lakh votes by Kishori Lal Sharma of the Indian National Congress.[12]
Most Successful parties from Amethi Lok Sabha
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- ^ "Amethi: Gandhis to face first real fight". Hindustan Times. 4 May 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Three attempts were made to kill Sanjay Gandhi: WikiLeaks". The Times of India. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Assassination in India; Rajiv Gandhi: A Son Who Won, Lost and Tried a Comeback". The New York Times. 22 May 1991. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Sharma, Rajeev (20 February 2014). "LTTE's messages show why Rajiv Gandhi's murder should be re-probed (Part-1)". Firstpost. Network 18. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "1991: Bomb kills India's former leader Rajiv Gandhi". BBC News. 21 May 1991. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Seven convicted over Rajiv Gandhi assassination set to be freed". The Guardian. 19 February 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "An Amethi first in 10 years for Sonia". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 19 April 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Does polls verdict signal decline of Gandhi dynasty?". The Hindustan Times. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Rahul Will Lose Heavily in Amethi: Kumar Vishwas". The New Indian Express. 18 March 2014. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Sharma, Swati (24 May 2019). "Election Results 2019: Smriti Irani Defeats Rahul Gandhi In Amethi, And Twitter Can't Even..." NDTV. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "Amethi Election Results 2024 Live Updates: Congress's Kishori Lal Sharma defeats BJP's Smriti Irani with 1.67 lakh vote margin". The Times of India. 4 June 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 22 June 2024.