Rae Bareli (Assembly constituency)

Rae Bareli (रायबरेली) is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Rae Bareli in the Rae Bareli district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Rae Bareli
Constituency
DistrictRae Bareli
StateUttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created2017
PartyIndependent
MLAAditi Singh
ReservationNone

Rae Bareli is one of five assembly constituencies in the Rae Bareli (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 180 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Aditi Singh who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Lagislative Elections, as Congress candidate, defeating Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Shabaj Khan by a margin of more than 90,000 votes.[1] In May 2020, Aditi Singh was suspended from Congress Party for indiscipline amidst rumours that she was getting close to BJP. [2]

Vidhan Sabha Members
SI No. Year Name Party
1. 1993 Akhilesh Kumar Singh Indian National Congress
2. 1996 Akhilesh Kumar Singh Indian National Congress
3. 2002 Akhilesh Kumar Singh Indian National Congress
4. 2007 Akhilesh Kumar Singh Independent
5. 2012 Akhilesh Kumar Singh Peace Party of India
6. 2017 Aditi Singh
    Suspended from INC in 2020.		 Indian National Congress

Election Results

2012 Elections
  • Akhilesh Kumar Singh (Peace Party) : 75,588 votes.
  • Kumari Ram Pratap Yadav (SP) : 46,094 votes.

2017 Elections
  • Aditi Singh (Congress) : 128,319 ( 62.95%) votes
  • Mhd Shahbaz Khan (BSP) : 39,156 (19.21%) votes
  • Anita Srivastava (BJP) : 28,821 (14.14%) votes

References
  1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/congress-suspends-aditi-singh-from-womens-wing-after-raebareli-mla-slammed-party-for-fraud/594972
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