Varanasi Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

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Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

The Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency of Uttar Pradesh state is currently held by Narendra Modi of BJP. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Narendra Modi beat Arvind Kejriwal of AAP by receiving 56.40 per cent of the votes cast in this constituency.

Varanasi is one of the constituencies in 80-seat Uttar Pradesh. As per the estimates of 2011 census, out of total 2251773 population 34.54% is rural and 65.46% is urban population. The Scheduled castes (SC) and Scheduled tribes (ST) ratio is 10.13 and 0.74, respectively out of total population. As per the voter list of 2017, there are 1775890 electorates and 1718 polling stations in this constituency. Voter turnout in the 2014 Parliamentary election was 58.35% where as it was 42.61% in 2009 Parliamentary Election. The BJP, the BSP, the INC and the SP got 56.37%, 5.88%, 7.34% and 4.39% votes respectively in 2014-parliamentary election while 30.52%, 27.94%, 9.98% and 18.61% in 2009-parliamentary election respectively. Narendra Modi (BJP) is the present Lok Sabha MP of Varanasi Parliamentary Constituency - Lok Sabha.

This year, as many as 101 people have filed nomination from Varanasi parliamentary seat, from where PM Modi is a candidate. A total of 102 people, including farmers, Tej Bahadur Yadav and 25 turmeric farmers among others are in fray. Around a dozen people have filed nominations from the little known political parties.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 - Candidate Wise

Parliamentary Constituency	Candidate	Party	EVM Votes	Migrant Votes	Postal Votes	Total Votes	% of Votes	Status
Varanasi	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party	673453	0	1211	674664	63.62	Winner
Varanasi	Shalini Yadav	Samajwadi Party	194763	0	396	195159	18.4	2nd Runner-up
Varanasi	Ajay Rai	Indian National Congress	152456	0	92	152548	14.38	3rd Runner-up
Varanasi	Surendra Rajbhar	Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party	8890	0	2	8892	0.84	4th Runner-up
Varanasi	NOTA	None Of The Above	4019	0	18	4037	0.38	5th Runner-up
Varanasi	Anil Kumar Chaurasiya	Janhit Kisan Party	2756	0	2	2758	0.26	6th Runner-up
Varanasi	Manohar Anandrao Patil	Independent	2134	0	0	2134	0.2	7th Runner-up
Varanasi	Heena Shahid	Janhit Bharat Party	1914	0	0	1914	0.18	8th Runner-up
Varanasi	Dr. Shekh Siraj Baba	Rashtriya Matadata Party	1771	0	0	1771	0.17	9th Runner-up
Varanasi	Tirbhuwan Sharma	Bharatiya Rashtravadi Samanta Party	1694	0	1	1695	0.16	10th Runner-up
Varanasi	Advocate Prem Nath Sharma	Moulik Adhikar Party	1603	0	3	1606	0.15	11th Runner-up
Varanasi	Maanav	Independent	1434	0	1	1435	0.14	12th Runner-up
Varanasi	Hari Bhai Patel	Aam Janta Party (India)	1339	0	1	1340	0.13	13th Runner-up
Varanasi	Rajesh Bharti Surya	Rashtriya Ambedkar Dal	1257	0	1	1258	0.12	14th Runner-up
Varanasi	Ramsharan	Vikas Insaf Party	1236	0	1	1237	0.12	15th Runner-up
Varanasi	Sunil Kumar	Independent	1097	0	0	1097	0.1	16th Runner-up
Varanasi	Dr. Rakesh Pratap	Bharatiya Jan Kranti Dal (Democratic)	907	0	0	907	0.09	17th Runner-up
Varanasi	Ateek Ahmad	Independent	854	0	1	855	0.08	18th Runner-up
Varanasi	Brajendra Dutt Tripathi	Adarshwaadi Congress Party	838	0	0	838	0.08	19th Runner-up
Varanasi	Sunnam Istari	Independent	798	0	0	798	0.08	20th Runner-up
Varanasi	Ishwar Dayal Singh Seth	Independent	657	0	0	657	0.06	21th Runner-up
Varanasi	Umesh Chandra Katiyar	Al-Hind Party	637	0	0	637	0.06	22th Runner-up
Varanasi	Amresh Mishra	Bharat Prabhat Party	555	0	0	555	0.05	23th Runner-up
Varanasi	Aashin U. S.	Indian Gandhiyan Party	503	0	1	504	0.05	24th Runner-up
Varanasi	Ashutosh Kumar Pandey	Mera Adhikaar Rashtriya Dal	498	0	1	499	0.05	25th Runner-up
Varanasi	Manish Shrivastava	Independent	350	0	0	350	0.03	26th Runner-up
Varanasi	Chandrika Prasad	Independent	331	0	0	331	0.03	27th Runner-up

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner/Current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	77	Varanasi	GEN	Narendra Modi	M	BJP	581022	Arvind Kejriwal	M	AAP	209238
2009	77	Varanasi	GEN	Joshi,Dr. Murli Manohar	M	BJP	203122	Mukhtar Ansari	M	BSP	185911
2004	48	Varanasi	GEN	Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra	M	INC	206904	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	M	BJP	149468
1999	52	Varanasi	GEN	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	M	BJP	211955	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	M	INC	159096
1998	52	Varanasi	GEN	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	M	BJP	277232	Deena Nath Singh Yadav	M	CPM	125286
1996	52	Varanasi	GEN	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	M	BJP	250991	Raj Kishore	M	CPM	150299
1991	52	Varanasi	GEN	Sheesh Chandra Dixit	M	BJP	186333	Raj Kishore	M	CPM	145894
1989	52	Varanasi	GEN	Anil Shastri	M	JD	268196	Shyam Lal Yadav	M	INC	96593
1984	52	Varanasi	GEN	Shyam Lal Yadava	M	INC	153076	Udal	M	CPI	58646
1980	52	Varanasi	GEN	Kamalapati	M	INC(I)	129063	Raj Narain	M	JNP(S)	104328
1977	52	Varanasi	GEN	Chandra Shekher	M	BLD	233194	Raja Ram	M	INC	61340
1971	52	Varanasi	GEN	Raja Ram Shastri	M	INC	138789	Kamla Prasad Singh	M	BJS	52941
1967	52	Varanasi	GEN	S. N. Singh	M	CPM	105784	R. Singh	M	INC	87617
1962	52	Varanasi	GEN	Raghunath Singh	M	INC	104682	Raghuvira	M	JS	58775
1957	39	Varanasi	GEN	Raghunath Singh	M	INC	131087	Sheomangal Ram (Sc)	M	IND	59161

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Varanasi Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Varanasi parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Rohaniya	Varanasi North	Varanasi South
Varanasi Cantt.	Sevapuri