Raebareli Lok Sabha Election Result: Rahul Gandhi Secures Congress Stronghold By Huge Margin
Raebareli has been a stronghold of the Congress since the first Lok Sabha election, and it has won 16 times from this seat.
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Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won the Raebareli Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, with 6,87,649 votes, as per the latest data from the Election Commission of India. He was fighting Bharatiya Janata Party's Dinesh Pratap Singh, who was trailing at 2,97,619 votes. Gandhi won with a comfortable margin of 3,90,030 votes.
Raebareli has been a stronghold of the Congress since the first Lok Sabha election, and it has won 16 times from this seat, which went for polling in the fifth phase and saw a voter turnout of 56.26%. In the 2019 elections, the constituency saw a 56.34% elector turnout.
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Sonia Gandhi, who has represented the seat since 2004, defeated Singh by 1.67 lakh votes in 2019. She received 55.8% of the vote, while Singh received 38.36%.
There were speculations that Rahul Gandhi would fight from Amethi, where he lost to the BJP's Smriti Irani last time, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would contest from Raebareli, but the Congress finally decided to field him from the seat that was vacated by his mother.
Other key battles in the state include PM Modi contesting from Varanasi, where he won 6,12,970 votes. Smriti Irani conceded defeat to Kishori Lal Sharma by 1,67,196 votes in Amethi, the Congress stronghold that she managed to wrest control of in the 2019 elections. Mainpuri saw SP's Dimple Yadav take over the seat vacated by Mulayam Singh with a comfortable margin of 66,081 votes against BJP's Thakur Jayvir Singh. In Ayodhya, BJP candidate Lallu Singh is currently (at 7:30 p.m.) lagging behind Awadesh Prasad of Samajwadi Party who is in the lead with a narrow margin of 54,567 seats.
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