Amethi Amethi is a city situated in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a major town of the Amethi district, in the Faizabad division. The Hanumangarhi temple is located in the heart of the town. Amethi was the 72 nd district of Uttar Pradesh w ...

Lok Sabha constituency is in the state of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 195 ...

in India. It covers the entire Amethi district and was created in 1967. The seat has almost always been held by the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

(INC), save for a half-dozen years in the late 1970s and late 1990s.

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held the seat for the longest period, from 2004 to 2019, and the seat had also been held by his mother, father, and uncle. Its first

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(MP) was Vidya Dhar Bajpai of INC, who was reelected in 1971. In the 1977 election, Ravindra Pratap Singh of the

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became its MP. Singh was defeated in 1980 by

Sanjay Gandhi Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 23 June 1980) was an Indian politician and the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. He was a member of parliament, Lok Sabha and the Nehru–Gandhi family. During his lifetime, he was widely expected ...

of the INC. He died in a plane crash later that year, and a 1981

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was won by his brother,

Rajiv Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to beco ...

. Gandhi represented the constituency until 1991, when he was

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by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The by-election held that year was won by

Satish Sharma Satish C. Sharma (11 October 1947 – 17 February 2021) was an Indian politician. He represented the Indian National Congress party, and was a former member of the Union Cabinet in the Government of India. Sharma's political career was boosted ...

of the INC, who was reelected in 1996. Sanjay Singh of the

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(BJP) defeated Sharma in the 1998 election. The wife of Rajiv Gandhi,

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, then represented the constituency from 1999 to 2004. She was succeeded by her son

. Amethi has thus been represented by four members of the

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. However, this safe congress bastion was breached by

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in 2019 general elections.

Vidhan Sabha segments

Presently, Amethi Lok Sabha constituency comprises five

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(legislative assembly) segments: Tiloi,

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Jagdishpur Jagdishpur is a nagar panchayat town of the district Bhojpur of the state of Bihar in eastern India. It was the capital of the eponymous Jagdishpur estate, ruled by Rajputs of the Ujjainiya clan. One of its rulers, Kunwar Singh, was a major f ...

, Gauriganj and

. This constituency is surrounded by Bara Banki and

Faizabad Faizabad (Hindustani pronunciation: ɛːzaːbaːd is a city situated near the southern banks of Saryu river in Ayodhya district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The area of this Faizabad region is administered by Ayodhya Municipal Corpo ...

in the north,

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to the west, Sultanpur to the east and Pratapgarh to the south.

Members of Lok Sabha

^ by-poll

Election results

General election 1967

Vidya Dhar Bajpai of the INC won the first election in 1967 and became Amethi's first MP. , , , ,

General election 1971

Bajpai held the seat and represented the constituency in the

Fifth Lok Sabha List of Members of the 5th Lok Sabha, ( 15 March 1971 — 18 January 1977) elected February–March 1971.The term of the House was extended two times by one year at a time. However, the House was dissolved after having been in existence for a ...

General election 1977

Ravindra Pratap Singh of the

represented the constituency in the

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General election 1980

of the INC won the election, but he died in a plane crash later in the year forcing a by-election in 1981.

By-election 1981

, Sanjay's brother, won the by-election and represented the constituency in the Seventh Lok Sabha.

General election 1984

Rajiv Gandhi held the seat and represented the constituency in the Eighth Lok Sabha. He was challenged by his sister-in-law

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General election 1989

Rajiv Gandhi won a third term in the election and represented the constituency in the Ninth Lok Sabha. He was challenged by Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of

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General election 1991

Rajiv Gandhi won the election, but he was

on 21 May 1991 a few days after the polling in Amethi and even before other rounds of polling were completed. 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.

By-election 1991

of the INC won the election and represented the constituency in the Ninth Lok Sabha.

General election 1996

Satish Sharma held the seat and represented the constituency in the

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General election 1998

Sanjay Singh of the BJP won the election and represented the constituency in the Eleventh Lok Sabha.

General election 1999

, the wife of Rajiv Gandhi, won the election and represented the constituency in the

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General election 2004

, Sonia Gandhi's son, won the seat and represented the constituency in the Fourteenth Lok Sabha.

General election 2009

Rahul Gandhi held the seat and represented the constituency in the Fifteenth Lok Sabha.

General election 2014

Rahul Gandhi won a third term as MP in the Sixteenth Lok Sabha.

General election 2019

Smriti Irani from the

won in the Seventeenth Lok Sabha.

External links

Amethi Lok Sabha Election Results - From 1971 to Today

References

{{Coord, 26.16, 81.81, display=title Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh Amethi district