[10] Gandhi held the seat till the 2019 election when he was defeated by a margin of 55,000 votes by the BJP's Smriti Irani.

[11] Irani was defeated in 2024 by a margin of over 1.67 lakh votes by Kishori Lal Sharma of the Indian National Congress.

This constituency is surrounded by Bara Banki and Faizabad in the north, Rae Bareli to the west, Sultanpur to the east and Pratapgarh to the south.

[8] Sanjaya Sinh of the BJP won the election and represented the constituency in the Twelfth Lok Sabha.

[7][25] Rajiv Gandhi won a third term in the election and represented the constituency in the Ninth Lok Sabha.

[27] Rajiv Gandhi, Sanjay's brother, won the by-election and represented the constituency in the Seventh Lok Sabha.

[3] Ravindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party represented the constituency in the Sixth Lok Sabha.