Rae Bareli UP Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voting date, results, candidates, main parties, and schedule 

UP Lok Sabha Election 2024 - a file photo of Priyanka Gandhi with Rahul Gandhi- (Photo-PTI)

The Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency, situated in Uttar Pradesh (UP), comprises five Vidhan Sabha seats: Bachhrawan, Harchandpur, Rae Bareli, Sareni, and Unchahar. Rae Bareli holds a significant place in India's political landscape, with a rich history of prominent leaders like Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, and Feroz Gandhi.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi announced that she would not contest Rae Bareli. The Congress finally announced that her son and the party’s purported Prime Ministerial candidate, Rahul Gandhi, would stand as their Lok Sabha candidate from Rae Bareli.

Rahul Gandhi is already a sitting Member of Parliament for Kerala's Wayanad constituency and will contest from Rae Bareli as well, making it his second candidacy in the same election.

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Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has nominated three-time Member of the Legislative Assembly and former Congress member Dinesh Pratap Singh as its Lok Sabha candidate from the constituency.

Singh, who has won the UP Vidhan Sabha elections twice on a Congress ticket and once on the BJP's, contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli but finished as the runner-up to Sonia Gandhi.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), contesting all Lok Sabha seats in UP independently in the 2024 General elections, has named Thakur Prasad Yadav as its candidate from Rae Bareli. Yadav, who unsuccessfully contested the UP Vidhan Sabha elections in 2017 and 2022, will make his debut in the lower house of Parliament with this candidacy.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Rae Bareli witnessed a closely contested battle. Sonia Gandhi secured victory yet again, defeating Dinesh Pratap Singh by 167,178 votes, reaffirming her stronghold in the constituency.

Voting in Rae Bareli will take place on May 20 in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, while counting will be held on June 4.