Varanasi Election Results 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won from his Varanasi constiuency by over 1,52,513 votes. He was polled 6,12,970 votes against Congress' Ajay Rai who got 4,60,457 votes.
Varanasi is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. The state has 80 parliamentary seats. The Varanasi seat comprises five Assembly segments including Rohaniya, Varanasi North, Varanasi South, Varanasi Cantt and Sevapuri. The constituency is a general seat and not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). Varanasi, where polling took on the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha election on June 1, is expected to witness a one-sided contest with Prime Minister Narendra Modi contesting against Congress' state unit president Ajay Rai and the BSP's Athar Jamal Lari. Of the 144 Lok Sabha poll candidates in this phase, 134 are men and 10 women candidates. There are 11 general category and two SC reserved seats.
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Date of polls and result
Polling in Varanasi took place on the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha election on June 1.
Voter turnout
In 2024 the voter turnout was recorded at 56.49% as against 58.37% in 2019 and 58.2% in 2014.
Main parties and candidates
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) are the main parties in the constituency. The Congress has fielded its state unit president Ajay Rai from the seat and the BSP has nominated Athar Jamal Lari. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been representing the constituency since 2014.
What happened in 2014 and 2019
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Prime Minister and BJP candidate Narendra Modi won the Varanasi seat with a margin of 4,79,505 votes. He was polled 6,74,664 votes with a vote share of 63.60%. He defeated Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Shalini Yadav who got 1,95,159 votes (18.40%). Congress party's Ajay Rai stood third with 1,52,548 votes (14.38%). The total number of valid votes polled was 10,60,476.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Narendra Modi contested on a BJP ticket from the Varanasi constituency for the first time and won the seat. He was polled 5,81,022 votes with a vote share of 56.37%. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Arvind Kejriwal got 2,09,238 votes (20.30%) and was the runner-up. Narendra Modi defeated Kejriwal by a margin of 3,71,784 votes. The total number of valid votes polled in this constituency was 10,30,685. Congress candidate Ajay Rai came third with 75,614 votes (7.34%) and SP candidate Kailash Chaurasiya was in the fourth position with 45,291 votes (4.39%).
