Constituency
493. Varanasi
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-VARANASI
BJP 56.4%won by 36.1%AAP 20.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 36.1%.
- New challengerAam Aadmi Party (AAP) finished second with 20.3% — it did not contest here in 2009.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.7% of the vote between them, up from 58.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 15.7% to 58.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
17,66,487
Turnout
58.4%
Valid votes
10,30,685
Margin
3,71,784
36.07%
Candidates
43 contested · winner BJP- 1NARENDRA MODIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,81,02256.4%
- 2ARVIND KEJRIWALAam Aadmi Party · AAP2,09,23820.3%
- 3AJAY RAIIndian National Congress · INC75,6147.3%
- 4VIJAY PRAKASH JAISAWALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP60,5795.9%
- 5KAILASH CHAURASIYASamajwadi Party · SP45,2914.4%
- 6RAJESH BHARTI SURYAR · R4,3270.4%
- 7ARUNBSCP · BSCP3,6340.4%
- 8SARVESH KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND3,0230.3%
- 9BASEER KINNARIndependent · IND2,8500.3%
- 10INDIRA TIWARIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,6740.3%
- 11HIRALAL YADAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,4570.2%
- 12IFTEKHAR KURAISHIIndependent · IND2,3230.2%
- 13NARENDRA NATH DUBEY ADIGJSEP · JSEP2,2770.2%
- 14None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,0510.2%
- 15A.K. AGGARWALAGRJP · AGRJP2,0370.2%
- 16SHIVHARI AGARWALB · B2,0000.2%
- 17PRAMOD KUMARIndependent · IND1,8070.2%
- 18DEVI PRASAD NANDMADP · MADP1,7400.2%
- 19ABHIMANYU SINGH PATELBMUP · BMUP1,6440.2%
- 20JOHNSON THOMASIndependent · IND1,5240.1%
- 21SANTOSH KUMARRVMP · RVMP1,4340.1%
- 22RAM LAKHAN GUPTAJan Asra Party · JAP1,3760.1%
- 23RAJENDRA PRASAD (GARIB DAS)Independent · IND1,3670.1%
- 24PRAKASH PRASADIndependent · IND1,3610.1%
- 25NARENDRA BAHADUR SINGHIndependent · IND1,3060.1%
- 26HEMANT KUMAR YADAVIndian National League · INL1,2020.1%
- 27BACHCHAN PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND1,1920.1%
- 28BACHCHELALLPSP · LPSP1,1720.1%
- 29GHANSHYAMIndependent · IND1,1510.1%
- 30OM GURU CHARAN DAS ALIAS VIMAL KUMAR SINGHS · S1,1440.1%
- 31PRABHAT KUMARIndependent · IND1,0890.1%
- 32MANOJ KUMAR CHAUBEYIndependent · IND1,0740.1%
- 33RAVINDRA KUMARIndependent · IND1,0120.1%
- 34LALLANM · M9970.1%
- 35AHMED SOHEL SIDDIQUIIndependent · IND9370.1%
- 36USMANR · R8780.1%
- 37HARI LALR · R8380.1%
- 38RAJIV KUMAR MISHRAIndependent · IND6770.1%
- 39SATYAPRAKASH SRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND5990.1%
- 40MAHENDRA MISHRAIndependent · IND5730.1%
- 41SATISH SHANKAR JAYASWALIndependent · IND4590.0%
- 42RAMPYARE SINGHIndependent · IND4230.0%
- 43SHIV KUMAR SHAHIndependent · IND3120.0%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AAP swing
- +5.5%
- BJP share
- 30.5% → 56.4%
- AAP share
- 0.0% → 20.3%
- Turnout
- 42.6% → 58.4%