Amethi Lok Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh: Full list of candidates, polling dates

It's a topsy-turvy battle in Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. Bharatiya Janata Party's Smriti Irani and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi are in a neck and neck battle in the state with the two leaders taking turns to be in the lead in the 2019 Lok Sabha election results. Smriti is leading by a margin of over 18000 votes against Rahul Gandhi. Read live updates of Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha election results here.

Amethi had registered 54.05 per cent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 1.61 per cent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1741033 while the total voter turnout is 940947. While in 2014, the constituency registered 52.44 per cent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1668423 while the total voter's turnout was 874865.

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The Amethi Lok Sabha Constituency has a total of five assembly segments - Tiloi, Salon,  Jagdishpur, Gauriganj and Amethi.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Amethi Lok Sabha Constituency of Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha constituencies: All you need to know

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Rahul Gandhi	Indian National Congress
2	Smriti Irani	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Afajal Varis	Bahujan Mukti Party
4	Gopal Swaroop Gandhi	Kisan Majdoor Berojgar Sangh
5	Durgesh Singh	Bharat Prabhat Party
6	Nathu Ram	Janvadi Party(Socialist)
7	Prem Shankar	Moulik Adhikar Party
8	Pankaj Ramkumar Sing	Akhand Rashtrawadi Party
9	Bas Deo Maurya	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star
10	Ram Milan	Rashtriya Apna Dal
11	Ram Sidh Yadav	Manavtawadi Samaj Party
12	Shatrunjai Pratap Singh	Lok Gathbandhan Party
13	SHIV Nandan Singh	Bharatiya Sampuran Krantikari Party
14	Gopal Prasad	Independent
15	Dinesh Kumar	Independent
16	Dhurv lal	Independent
17	Bhagwandeen	Independent
18	Ram Sajiwan	Independent
19	Lal Babu	Independent
20	Vipin Yadav	Independent
21	Shiv Kumar	Independent
22	Dr. U.P. Shivananda	Independent
23	Saritha S. Nair	Independent
24	Suresh Kumar Shukla	Independent
25	Mo. Hasan Lahari	Independent
26	Harun Rasheed	Independent
27	Hemant Kumar	Independent

Also read: Amethi Lok Sabha constituency

The election here was conducted on May 6, 2019, as per the Phase V schedule announced by the Election Commission of India. The results would be declared on May 23.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Munda received 408,651 votes and defeated BJP candidate Smriti Irani who got 300,748 votes.