Varanasi is a Lok Sabha / Parliamentary constituency in Poorvanchal of Uttar Pradesh and is located in North India. Varanasi Lok Sabha is reserved for General.
It is a Semi-Urban constituency with an approximate literacy rate of 77.01%. There are 17,96,930 voters of which 9,95,263 are male and 8,01,563 are female and 104 voters of the third gender.
Narendra Modi of BJP (alliance: NDA) won in this seat defeating AAP. BJP polled 5,81,022 of the total of 10,30,685 votes polled. BJP won the seat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Varanasi goes to the polls in the 7st phase of the 2019 General Elections to choose the 17th Lok Sabha on Sunday, May 19, 2019. The election results for the seat are scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2019.
The voter turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was 58.35%.
| Constituency Data (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. | 77 |
| Total Assembly Segments | 5 |
| Reservation for | General |
| Number of Voters | 17,66,487 |
| Number of Male Voters | 9,85,395 |
| Number of Female Voters | 7,81,000 |
| Results | 2014 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | BJP | BJP |
| Turnout % | 58.35% | 42.61% |
| Margin of Victory | 3,71,784 | 17,211 |
| Margin of Victory % | 36.07% | 2.59% |
| Results | 2014 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | BJP | BJP |
| Turnout % | 58.35% | 42.61% |
| Margin of Victory | 3,71,784 | 17,211 |
| Margin of Victory % | 36.07% | 2.59% |
| Party | Votes Polled | Votes % | CANDIDATE NAME |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | 674664 | 63.62% | Narendra ModiWinner |
| SP | 195159 | 18.40% | Shalini Yadav |
| INC | 152548 | 14.38% | Ajay |
| SBSP | 8892 | 0.84% | Surendra |
| NOTA | 4037 | 0.38% | Nota |
| JKP | 2758 | 0.26% | Anil Kumar Chaurasiya |
| IND | 2134 | 0.20% | Manohar Anandrao Patil |
| JHBP | 1914 | 0.18% | Heena Shahid |
| RMDP | 1771 | 0.17% | Dr. Shekh Siraj Baba |
| BRS | 1695 | 0.16% | Tribhuwan Sharma |
| MAP | 1606 | 0.15% | Premnath |
| IND | 1435 | 0.14% | Manav |
| AJP(I) | 1340 | 0.13% | Hari Bhai Patel |
| RAD | 1258 | 0.12% | Rajesh Bharati Surya |
| VISP | 1237 | 0.12% | Ramsharan |
| IND | 1097 | 0.10% | Sunil Kumar |
| BJKD | 907 | 0.09% | Dr. Rakesh Pratap |
| IND | 855 | 0.08% | Ateek Ahmad |
| ASCP | 838 | 0.08% | Brijendra Dutt Tripathi |
| IND | 798 | 0.08% | Sunnam Istari |
| IND | 657 | 0.06% | Ishwar Dayal |
| ALHP | 637 | 0.06% | Umesh Chandra Katiyar |
| BPHP | 555 | 0.05% | Amresh Mishra |
| IGP | 504 | 0.05% | Aashin U.S. |
| MARD | 499 | 0.05% | Ashutosh Kumar Pandey |
| IND | 350 | 0.03% | Manish Shrivastava |
| IND | 331 | 0.03% | Chandrika Prasad |
| KSBD | 0 | 0.00% | Sanjay Vishwakarma |
