Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency

This article is about Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, one of 80 parliamentary constituencies in state of Uttar Pradesh. For others, see List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha.

Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Uttar Pradesh state in India.^[1] Narendra Modi has been elected thrice from this constituency to become the Prime Minister of India. His party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is the most successful in Varanasi, having won a total of 8 terms since the constituency was established in 1952.

Varanasi UP-77
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Assembly constituencies	Rohaniya Varanasi North Varanasi South Varanasi Cantt. Sevapuri
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Murli Manohar Joshi,   BJP

Vidhan Sabha segments

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 Lead
387	Rohaniya	Varanasi	Sunil Patel		Apna Dal (Sonelal)		Bharatiya Janata Party
388	Varanasi North		Ravindra Jaiswal		Bharatiya Janata Party
389	Varanasi South		Neelkanth Tiwari
390	Varanasi Cantonment		Saurabh Srivastava
391	Sevapuri		Neel Ratan Singh Patel

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952	Raghunath Singh[a][2]		Indian National Congress
	Tribhuvan Narain Singh[b][3]
1957	Raghunath Singh
1962
1967	Satya Narain Singh		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1971	Rajaram Shastri		Indian National Congress
1977	Chandra Shekhar		Janata Party
1980	Kamalapati Tripathi		Indian National Congress (I)
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	Rajesh Kumar Mishra		Indian National Congress
2009	Murli Manohar Joshi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Narendra Modi
2019
2024

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Varanasi^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narendra Modi	612,970	54.24	9.38
	INC	Ajay Rai	460,457	40.74	26.36
	BSP	Athar Jamal Lari	33,766	2.99	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,938	1.53	0.37
Majority			152,513	13.50	31.72
Turnout			1,130,143	56.57	0.56
Registered electors			1,997,578
	BJP hold		Swing	17.87

Detailed Results at: https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/ConstituencywiseS2477.htm

(#): Joint candidate of SP and INC

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narendra Modi	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
Registered electors			1,856,868
	BJP hold		Swing	7.25

Joined Candidate From SP and BSP.

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narendra Modi	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
	AITC	Indira Tiwari	2,674	0.26	New
	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
Registered electors			1,767,486
	BJP hold		Swing	25.85

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Varanasi^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	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	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	66,386	9.98	22.70
	AD(K)	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^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	206,904	32.68	7.20
	BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	149,468	23.61	10.34
	AD(K)	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^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	211,955	33.95	9.03
	INC	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	159,096	25.48	15.53
	AD(K)	Niranjan Rajbhar	83,282	13.34	3.18
	SP	Salman Bashar	78,442	12.56	N/A
	BSP	Babu Lal Patel	75,059	12.02	3.64
Majority			52,859	8.47	15.09
Turnout			633,826	45.02	1.44
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 1998

1998 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	277,232	42.98	0.36
	CPI(M)	Deena Nath Singh Yadav	125,286	19.42	7.30
	BSP	Dr. Awdhesh Singh	101,024	15.66	3.16
	AD(K)	Rajdev Patel	65,529	10.16	5.40
	INC	Dr. Ratnakar Pandey	64,154	9.95	5.94
Majority			151,946	23.56	5.66
Turnout			645,044	46.46	6.86
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 1996

1996 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	250,991	44.62	3.52
	CPI(M)	Raj Kishore	150,299	26.72	5.46
	BSP	Kamala Rajbhar	70,316	12.50	5.25
	AD(K)	Rajdev Patel	26,797	4.76	New
	INC	Doodh Nath Chaturvedi	22,579	4.01	8.65
	AIIC(T)	Rudra Prasad Singh	7,615	1.35	New
Majority			100,692	17.90	8.98
Turnout			562,564	39.60	3.70
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 1991

1991 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shrish Chandra Dikshit	186,333	41.10	N/A
	CPI(M)	Raj Kishore	145,894	32.18	N/A
	INC	Lok Pati Tripathi	57,415	12.66	9.78
	BSP	Kashi Nath Yadav	32,861	7.25	0.32
	JP	Shiv Devnarain Roy	10,190	2.25	N/A
Majority			40,439	8.92	30.95
Turnout			453,402	43.30	1.97
	BJP gain from JD		Swing

General election 1989

1989 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Anil Shastri	268,196	62.31	New
	INC	Shyamlal Yadav	96,593	22.44	19.14
	BSP	Ganga Ram Gwal	32,574	7.57	N/A
	Independent	Ram Das	12,420	2.89	N/A
	DDP	Ram Murat	3,111	0.72	N/A
Majority			171,603	39.87	14.22
Turnout			430,403	41.33	13.61
	JD gain from INC		Swing

General election 1984

1984 Indian general election: Varanasi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shyamlal Yadav	153,076	41.58	−−−
	CPI(M)	Udal	58,646	15.93	−−−
	JP	Atahar Jamal Lari	50,329	13.67	−−−
	BJP	Om Prakash Singh	46,904	12.74	−−−
	Lokdal	Gauri Shankar	40,281	10.94	−−−
Majority			94,430	25.65
Turnout			368,112	54.94
	INC hold		Swing

See also

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