diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.cpp
@@ -950,7 +950,16 @@
 
   Attribute src = operands[0];
   Attribute pos = operands[1];
-  if (!src || !pos)
+
+  // We could not fold if the position is not constant.
+  if (!pos)
+    return {};
+
+  // fold extractelement (splat X) -> X
+  if (auto splat = getVector().getDefiningOp<vector::SplatOp>())
+    return splat.getInput();
+
+  if (!src)
     return {};
 
   auto srcElements = src.cast<DenseElementsAttr>().getValues<Attribute>();
diff --git a/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir b/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/canonicalize.mlir
@@ -1397,3 +1397,13 @@
   %1 = vector.extractelement %v[%i : i32] : vector<4xi32>
   return %1 : i32
 }
+
+// CHECK-LABEL: func @extract_element_splat_fold
+//  CHECK-SAME: (%[[ARG:.+]]: i32)
+//       CHECK:   return %[[ARG]]
+func @extract_element_splat_fold(%a : i32) -> i32 {
+  %v = vector.splat %a : vector<4xi32>
+  %i = arith.constant 2 : i32
+  %1 = vector.extractelement %v[%i : i32] : vector<4xi32>
+  return %1 : i32
+}