Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency)

Varanasi
Lok Sabha Constituency
Narendra Modi at a rally in Varanasi
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

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Number of electorates (2019)	Party		MLA
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

Election	Member	Party
1952 (Two-member seat)	Raghunath Singh (Central Banaras District)		Indian National Congress
	Tribhuvan Narayan Singh (Banaras East)
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

Vote share of Winning candidates
2019			63.62%
2014			56.37%
2009			30.52%
2004			32.68%
1999			33.95%
1998			42.98%
1996			44.62%
1991			41.10%
1989			62.31%

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	[[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

2014 Indian general elections: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

2009 Indian general elections: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

2004 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

1999 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

1998 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

1996 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

1991 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

1989 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

• Varanasi district
• Varanasi (Mayoral Constituency)
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

External links

• Varanasi lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details
• Varanasi Lok Sabha - Result University

Lok Sabha
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