| He won the MLA seat from Sarkhej in four consecutive elections: 1997, 1998, 2002, and 2007. |
| He previously worked as a stockbroker and in the co-operative banks of Ahmedabad. |
| He first met Narendra Modi in 1982 in the Ahmedabad RSS circles. |
| In 2002, he was assigned major portfolios by Narendra Modi, including Home, Parliamentary Affairs, and Law and Justice after Modi formed the government in Gujarat. |
| He served as the president of the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank (ADCB) in 2000. |
| He has a passion for chess and served as the president of the Gujarat Chess Association. |
| He joined the BJP in 1986, a year before Narendra Modi joined the party. |
| He managed the election campaigns of Lal Krishna Advani in 1991, Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996, and Narendra Modi in 2014. |
| His son, Jay Shah, is an engineer from Nirma University and holds the position of joint secretary at the Gujarat Chess Association. |
| In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, he set a new victory margin record by winning the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha Constituency in Gujarat with a lead of 5,57,014 votes. |
| During the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, L. K. Advani had won the same seat with a margin of 4,83,121 votes. |
| On December 9, 2019, the US commission on international religious freedom called for American sanctions against Home Minister Amit Shah and Indian leadership if the "religious criterion" in the Citizens Amendment Bill was passed by Parliament. |
| During the 2023 Lok Sabha no-confidence motion debate on August 9, Amit Shah broke Lal Bahadur Shastri's 2-hour 12-minute record from 1965 by speaking for 2 hours and 13 minutes. |
| In June 2024, a viral video allegedly showed Amit Shah scolding Tamilisai Soundararajan at Chandrababu Naidu's oath-taking ceremony, though Soundararajan later clarified that Shah was offering political advice. |
