Established in the year 1952, Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency is a constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha seats, and Varanasi is one of them. And as of 2024, there are 1854542 registered voters in the parliamentary constituency. Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)) is the current MP for the constituency. In the 2024 Indian General Election Narendra Modi won the Lok Sabha seat by defeating Ajay Rai of the Indian National Congress(INC).
List of MPs from Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency (Uttar Pradesh)
Here is the list of all MPs who got elected from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency to the Indian Parliament.
Year | Member | Party |
2024 | Narendra Modi | Bharatiya Janata Party |
2019 | Narendra Modi | Bharatiya Janata Party |
2014 | Narendra Modi | Bharatiya Janata Party |
2009 | Murli Manohar Joshi | Bharatiya Janata Party |
2004 | Rajesh Kumar Mishra | Indian National Congress |
1999 | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | Bharatiya Janata Party |
1998 | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | Bharatiya Janata Party |
1996 | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | Bharatiya Janata Party |
1991 | Shrish Chandra Dikshit | Bharatiya Janata Party |
1989 | Anil Shastri | Janata Dal |
1984 | Shyamlal Yadav | Indian National Congress |
1980 | Kamalapati Tripathi | Indian National Congress |
1977 | Chandra Shekhar | Janata Party |
1971 | Rajaram Shastri | Indian National Congress |
1967 | Satya Narain Singh | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
1962 | Raghunath Singh | Indian National Congress |
1957 | Raghunath Singh | Indian National Congress |
1952 | Raghunath Singh | Indian National Congress |
1952 | Tribhuvan Narain Singh | Indian National Congress |
Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency Election Result 2024
In the 2024 Varanasi Lok Sabha election, a total of 1,130,143 voters cast their vote, and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Narendra Modi won the election and became MP from the seat. This is the third consecutive time Modi has won the election.
Party | Candidate | Votes |
BJP | Narendra Modi | 612,970 |
INC | Ajay Rai | 460,457 |
BSP | Athar Jamal Lari | 33,766 |
NOTA | None of the Above | 8,938 |
Turnout | 1,130,143 |
Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency Election Result 2019
In the 2019 Varanasi Lok Sabha election a total of 1,060,829 voters cast their vote, and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Narendra Modi won the election and became MP from the seat. This is the second time Modi won the election.
Party | Candidate | Votes |
BJP | Narendra Modi | 674,664 |
SP | Shalini Yadav | 195,159 |
INC | Ajay Rai | 152,548 |
NOTA | None of the Above | 4,037 |
Turnout | 1,060,829 |
Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency Election Result 2014
In the 2014 Varanasi Lok Sabha election a total of 1,030,812 voters cast their vote, and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Narendra Modi won the election and became MP from the seat.
Party | Candidate | Votes |
BJP | Narendra Modi | 581,022 |
AAP | Arvind Kejriwal | 209,238 |
INC | Ajay Rai | 75,614 |
BSP | Vijay Prakash Jaiswal | 60,579 |
SP | Kailash Chaurasiya | 45,291 |
AITC | Indira Tiwari | 2,674 |
NOTA | None of the above | 2,051 |
Turnout | 1,030,812 |
Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency Election Result 2009
In the 2009 Varanasi Lok Sabha election a total of 665,490 voters cast their vote, and Bharatiya Janata Party Party candidate Murli Manohar Joshi won the election and became MP from the seat.
Party | Candidate | Votes |
BJP | Murli Manohar Joshi | 203,122 |
BSP | Mukhtar Ansari | 185,911 |
SP | Ajay Rai | 123,874 |
INC | Rajesh Kumar Mishra | 66,386 |
AD | Vijay Prakash Jaiswal | 65,912 |
Turnout | 665,490 |
Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency Election Result 2004
In the 2004 Varanasi Lok Sabha election a total of 633,077 voters cast their vote, and Indian National Congress candidate Rajesh Kumar Mishra won the election and became MP from the seat.
Party | Candidate | Votes |
INC | Rajesh Kumar Mishra | 206,904 |
BJP | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | 149,468 |
AD | Atahar Jamal Lari | 93,228 |
BSP | Amir Chand Patel | 59,518 |
SP | Anjana Prakash | 59,104 |
Independent | Shailendra Kumar | 28,533 |
Turnout | 633,077 |
Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency Election Result 1999
In the 1999 Varanasi Lok Sabha election a total of 633,826 voters cast their vote, and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Shankar Prasad Jaiswal won the election and became MP from the seat.
Party | Candidate | Votes |
BJP | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | 211,955 |
INC | Rajesh Kumar Mishra | 159,096 |
AD | Niranjan Rajbhar | 83,282 |
SP | Salman Bashar | 78,442 |
BSP | Babu Lal Patel | 75,059 |
Turnout | 633,826 |