Constituency
464. Varanasi
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-VARANASI
INC 32.7%won by 9.1%BJP 23.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 25.5% to 32.7% of the vote here (+7.2%).
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,87,696
Turnout
42.5%
Valid votes
6,33,077
Margin
57,436
9.07%
Candidates
18 contested · winner INC- 1DR. RAJESH KUMAR MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC2,06,90432.7%
- 2SHANKAR PRASAD JAISWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,49,46823.6%
- 3ATAHAR JAMAL LARIApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD93,22814.7%
- 4AMIR CHAND PATELBahujan Samaj Party · BSP59,5189.4%
- 5ANJANA PRAKASHSamajwadi Party · SP59,1049.3%
- 6SHALENDRA KUMAR ALIAS \EX DY. S.P\Independent · IND28,5334.5%
- 7KANHAYASuheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party · SBSP7,5501.2%
- 8DR. HEERA LAL YADAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,3791.0%
- 9RAM PRASAD BAVLAIndependent · IND5,8780.9%
- 10SURESH SINGH ALIAS SURESHIndependent · IND2,7330.4%
- 11NARENDRA NATH DUBEY ADIGIndependent · IND2,4770.4%
- 12DINESH CHANDRA PANDEYPMSP · PMSP2,1100.3%
- 13DEV RAJIndependent · IND2,0910.3%
- 14RAMJIIndependent · IND2,0060.3%
- 15KAMAL CHANDGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP1,8240.3%
- 16KHAGENDRA NATH PANDEYIndependent · IND1,2970.2%
- 17GANESH RAMIndependent · IND1,0690.2%
- 18LALJI RAMPTSS · PTSS9080.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +17.5%
- INC share
- 25.5% → 32.7%
- BJP share
- 33.9% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- 44.4% → 42.5%