Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency)
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Varanasi | |
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Lok Sabha Constituency | |
Incumbent | Narendra Modi |
Parliamentary Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Elected Year | 2019 |
Constituency Details | |
Established | 1952–present |
Reservation | General |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
Total Electors | 1,854,540 |
Former MP | Murli Manohar Joshi |
Most Successful Party | BJP (7 times) |
Assembly Constituencies | Rohaniya Varanasi North Varanasi South Varanasi Cantt. Sevapuri |
Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency (Hindi: वाराणसी लोकसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India. Narendra Modi has been twice elected from this constituency to become the prime minister of India.
Vidhan Sabha Segments[edit]
Constituency number | Name | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | District | Number of electorates (2019) | Party | MLA | |
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387 | Rohaniya | None | Varanasi | 3,91,609 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Surendra Narayan Singh | |
388 | Varanasi North | None | Varanasi | 4,04,345 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Ravindra Jaiswal | |
389 | Varanasi South | None | Varanasi | 2,96,592 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Neelkanth Tiwari | |
390 | Varanasi Cantt. | None | Varanasi | 4,32,293 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Saurabh Srivastava | |
391 | Sevapuri | None | Varanasi | 3,31,952 | Apna Dal (Sonelal) | Neel Ratan Singh Patel | |
Total: | 18,56,791 |
Members of Lok Sabha[edit]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1952 (Two-member seat) |
Raghunath Singh (Central Banaras District)[1] | Indian National Congress | |
Tribhuvan Narayan Singh (Banaras East) [2] | |||
1957 | Raghunath Singh | ||
1962 | |||
1967 | Satya Narain Singh | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
1971 | Rajaram Shastri | Indian National Congress | |
1977 | Chandra Shekhar | Bharatiya Lok Dal | |
1980 | Kamalapati Tripathi | Indian National Congress | |
1984 | Shyamlal Yadav | Indian National Congress | |
1989 | Anil Shastri | Janata Dal | |
1991 | Shrish Chandra Dikshit | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1996 | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | ||
1998 | |||
1999 | |||
2004 | Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra | ||
2009 | Murli Manohar Joshi | ||
2014 | Narendra Modi (Prime Minister) | ||
2019 |
Election results[edit]
General election 2019[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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[[BJP|Template:BJP/meta/shortname]] | Narendra Modi (PM Candidate) | 674,664 | 63.62 | +7.25 | |
SP | Shalini Yadav | 195,159 | 18.40 | +14.01 | |
INC | Ajay Rai | 152,548 | 14.38 | +7.04 | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 4,037 | 0.38 | +0.18 | |
Majority | 479,505 | 45.22 | +9.15 | ||
Turnout | 1,060,829 | 57.13 | -1.22 | ||
[[BJP|Template:BJP/meta/shortname]] hold | Swing | +7.25 |
General election 2014[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Narendra Modi (PM Candidate) | 581,022 | 56.37 | +25.85 | |
AAP | Arvind Kejriwal | 209,238 | 20.30 | New | |
INC | Ajay Rai | 75,614 | 7.34 | -2.64 | |
BSP | Vijay Prakash Jaiswal | 60,579 | 5.88 | -22.06 | |
SP | Kailash Chaurasiya | 45,291 | 4.39 | -14.22 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 2,051 | 0.20 | New | |
Majority | 371,784 | 36.07 | +33.49 | ||
Turnout | 1,030,812 | 58.35 | +15.74 | ||
BJP hold | Swing | +25.85 |
General election 2009[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi | 203,122 | 30.52 | +6.91 | |
BSP | Mukhtar Ansari | 185,911 | 27.94 | +18.54 | |
SP | Ajay Rai | 123,874 | 18.61 | +9.27 | |
INC | Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra | 66,386 | 9.98 | -22.70 | |
AD | Vijay Prakash Jaiswal | 65,912 | 9.90 | -4.83 | |
Majority | 17,211 | 2.58 | -6.49 | ||
Turnout | 665,490 | 42.61 | +0.06 | ||
BJP gain from INC | Swing | +6.91 |
General election 2004[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra | 206,904 | 32.68 | +7.20 | |
BJP | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | 149,468 | 23.61 | -10.34 | |
AD | Atahar Jamal Lari | 93,228 | 14.73 | +1.39 | |
BSP | Amir Chand Patel | 59,518 | 9.40 | -2.62 | |
SP | Anjana Prakash | 59,104 | 9.34 | -3.24 | |
Independent | Shailendra Kumar | 28,533 | 4.50 | N/A | |
Majority | 57,436 | 9.07 | +0.60 | ||
Turnout | 633,077 | 42.55 | -3.53 | ||
INC gain from BJP | Swing | +8.77 |
General election 1999[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | 211,955 | 33.95 | ||
INC | Rajesh Kumar Mishra | 159,096 | 25.48 | ||
AD | Niranjan Rajbhar | 83,282 | 13.34 | ||
SP | Salman Bashar | 78,442 | 12.56 | ||
BSP | Babu Lal Patel | 75,059 | 12.02 | ||
Majority | 52,859 | 8.47 | |||
Turnout | 633,826 | 45.02 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
General election 1998[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | 277,232 | 42.98 | ||
CPI (M) | Deena Nath Singh Yadav | 125,286 | 19.42 | ||
BSP | Dr. Awdhesh Singh | 101,024 | 15.66 | ||
AD | Rajdev Patel | 65,529 | 10.16 | ||
INC | Dr. Ratnakar Pandey | 64,154 | 9.95 | ||
Majority | 151,946 | 23.56 | |||
Turnout | 645,044 | 46.46 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
General election 1996[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | 250,991 | 44.62 | ||
CPI (M) | Raj Kishore | 150,299 | 26.72 | ||
BSP | Kamala Rajbhar | 70,316 | 12.50 | ||
AD | Rajdev Patel | 26,797 | 4.76 | ||
INC | Doodh Nath Chaturvedi | 22,579 | 4.01 | ||
AIIC(T) | Rudra Prasad Singh | 7,615 | 1.35 | ||
Majority | 100,692 | 17.90 | |||
Turnout | 562,564 | 39.60 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
General election 1991[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Shrish Chandra Dikshit | 186,333 | 41.10 | ||
CPI (M) | Raj Kishore | 145,894 | 32.18 | ||
INC | Lok Pati Tripathi | 57,415 | 12.66 | ||
BSP | Kashi Nath Yadav | 32,861 | 7.25 | ||
JP | Shiv Devnarain Roy | 10,190 | 2.25 | ||
Majority | 40,439 | 8.92 | |||
Turnout | 453,402 | 43.30 | |||
BJP gain from JD | Swing |
General election 1989[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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JD | Anil Shastri | 268,196 | 62.31 | ||
INC | Shyamlal Yadav | 96,593 | 22.44 | ||
BSP | Ganga Ram Gwal | 32,574 | 7.57 | ||
Independent | Ram Das | 12,420 | 2.89 | ||
DDP | Ram Murat | 3,111 | 0.72 | ||
Majority | 171,603 | 39.87 | |||
Turnout | 430,403 | 41.33 | |||
JD gain from INC | Swing |
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ https://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1951-election-results.html
- ↑ https://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1951-election-results.html
- ↑ "Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 169. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the Fourteenth Lok Sabha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 319. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Elections, 1999 to the Thirteenth Lok Sabha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 246. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
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