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Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency
Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency
Indian electoral constituency
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Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency (Template:Lang-hi) is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India. The city, one of the most ancient and holy places in Hinduism, is also known by the names Banaras and Kashi.

Vidhan Sabha Segments

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Number of electorates (2019)		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)^[1]	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" \|	Indian National Congress
1952 (Two-member seat)	Tribhuvan Narayan Singh (Banaras East) ^[2]
1957	Raghunath Singh
1962	Raghunath Singh
1967	Satya Narain Singh	style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color" \|	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1971	Rajaram Shastri	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" \|	Indian National Congress
1977	Chandra Shekhar	style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Lok Dal/meta/color" \|	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Kamalapati Tripathi	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress (I)/meta/color" \|	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1984	Shyamlal Yadav	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" \|	Indian National Congress
1989	Anil Shastri	style="background-color: Template:Janata Dal/meta/color" \|	Janata Dal
1991	Shrish Chandra Dikshit	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal
1998
1999
2004	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" \|	Indian National Congress
Major boundary changes
2009	Murli Manohar Joshi	rowspan="3"style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Narendra Modi
2019	Narendra Modi

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	Narendra Modi	6,74,664	63.62	+7.25
	SP	Shalini Yadav	1,95,159	18.40	−4.53
	INC	Ajay Rai	1,52,548	14.38	+7.04
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,037	0.38	+0.18
Majority			4,79,505	45.22	+9.15
Turnout			10,60,829	57.13	−1.22
	BJP hold		Swing	+5.89

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Varanasi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narendra Modi	5,81,022	56.37	+25.85
	AAP	Arvind Kejriwal	2,09,238	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			3,71,784	36.07	+33.49
Turnout			10,30,812	58.35	+15.74
	BJP hold		Swing	+25.85

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Varanasi^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi	2,03,122	30.52	+6.91
	BSP	Mukhtar Ansari	1,85,911	27.94	+18.54
	SP	Ajay Rai	1,23,874	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			6,65,490	42.61	+0.06
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+6.91

General election 2004

2004 Indian general election: Varanasi^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra	2,06,904	32.68	+7.20
	BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	1,49,468	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			6,33,077	42.55	−3.53
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	+8.77

General election 1999

1999 Indian general election: Varanasi^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	2,11,955	33.95
	INC	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	1,59,096	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			6,33,826	45.02
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 1998

1998 Indian general election: Varanasi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	2,77,232	42.98
	CPI(M)	Deena Nath Singh Yadav	1,25,286	19.42
	BSP	Dr. Awdhesh Singh	1,01,024	15.66
	AD	Rajdev Patel	65,529	10.16
	INC	Dr. Ratnakar Pandey	64,154	9.95
Majority			1,51,946	23.56
Turnout			6,45,044	46.46
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 1996

1996 Indian general election: Varanasi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	2,50,991	44.62
	CPI(M)	Raj Kishore	1,50,299	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			1,00,692	17.90
Turnout			5,62,564	39.60
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 1991

1991 Indian general election: Varanasi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Shrish Chandra Dikshit	1,86,333	41.10
	CPI(M)	Raj Kishore	1,45,894	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			4,53,402	43.30
	BJP gain from JD		Swing

General election 1989

1989 Indian general election: Varanasi
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD	Anil Shastri	2,68,196	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			1,71,603	39.87
Turnout			4,30,403	41.33
	JD gain from INC		Swing

External links

Varanasi lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

Varanasi Lok Sabha - Result University

Notes

^ 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.

Lok Sabha
Vacant since 2004 (Prime Minister in Rajya Sabha) Title last held by Lucknow	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 2014-present	Incumbent

25°19′N 82°59′E / 25.32°N 82.99°E / 25.32; 82.99

[1] ttps://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1951-election-results.html

[2] ttps://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1951-election-results.html

[3] "Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 169. Retrieved 30 April 2014.

[4] "Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the Fourteenth Lok Sabha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 319. Retrieved 30 April 2014.

[5] "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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Defunct	Balrampur Bilhaur Chail Dehradun Jalesar Ghatampur Hapur Khurja Padrauna Rasanehighat Saidpur Shahabad

v t e Varanasi division topics
General	Purvanchal Banaras Hindu University Varanasi Nagar Nigam
Mythology, history	2006 Varanasi bombings 2010 Varanasi bombing Jaunpur Sultanate
Districts	Chandauli Ghazipur Jaunpur Varanasi
Tehsils	Kerakat Jaunpur
Rivers, dams, lakes	Ganges Karmanasa Gomati
Transport	NH 2 Grand Trunk Road NH 29 NH 68 Howrah–Delhi main line Varanasi Junction railway station Jaunpur Junction Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport Malviya Bridge Shahi Bridge, Jaunpur
Lok Sabha constituencies	Chandauli Ghazipur Jaunpur Machhlishahr Varanasi
Vidhan Sabha constituencies	Kerakat Assembly constituency
See also	Cities and towns in Chandauli district Cities and towns in Ghazipur district Cities and towns in Jaunpur district Cities and towns in Varanasi district Villages in Chandauli district Villages in Ghazipur district Villages in Jaunpur district Villages in Varanasi district People from Chandauli People from Ghazipur People from Jaunpur district People from Varanasi
Other Divisions	Agra Aligarh Ayodhya Azamgarh Bareilly Basti Chitrakoot Devipatan Gorakhpur Jhansi Kanpur Lucknow Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Prayagraj Saharanpur