GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014
1951/1952:
Varanasi then as Banaras District (Central)
in the Election Commission records
Total
poll percentage - 45.19% (
Winner: Raghunath
Singh – Indian National Congress - 48.48% votes
Runner-up:
Vishwanath Sharma – Socialist Party – 24.28% votes
1957
Winner: Raghunath
Singh – Indian National Congress – 54.39% votes
Runner-up:
Sheomangal Ram – Independent – 24.55% votes
Total
poll percentage - 62.67%
1962
Winner: Raghunath
Singh – Indian National Congress – 40% votes
Runner-up:
Raghuvira – Jana Sangh – 22.46% votes
Total
poll percentage – 63.28%
1967
Winner: Satya
Narain Singh – Communist Party of India (Marxist) - 37.55% votes
Runner-up:
R. Singh - Indian National Congress - 31.10% votes
Total
poll percentage - 59.42%
1971
Winner: Raja
Ram Shastri – Indian National Congress - 46.97% votes
Runner-up:
Kamla Prasad Singh – Bharatiya Jana Sangh - 17.92% votes
Total
poll percentage - 55.48%
1977
Winner: Chandra
Shekhar – Bhartiya Lok Dal - 66.22% votes
Runner-up:
Raja Ram Shastri – Indian National Congress - 17.42% votes
Total
poll percentage – 55.83%
1980
Winner: Kamalapati
Tripathi – Indian National Congress (Indira) - 36.91%
Runner-up:
Raj Narain - JNP(S) - Janta Party (Secular) - 29.84% votes
Other
notable candidate: Om Prakash – Janta Party
(JNP) - 23.54% votes
Total
poll percentage – 53.66%
1984
(BJP starts making mark in the city.)
Winner: Shyam
Lal Yadav – Indian National Congress - 41.58%
Runner-up:
Udal – Communist Party of India
- 15.93%
Total
poll percentage - 54.94%
Other
notable candidates:
Atahar
Jamal Lari – Janta Party (JNP) - 13.67% votes
Om Prakash Singh – Bhartiya Janata Party - 12.74% votes
1989
(Poll percentage down curve (sub-50%) begins.)
Winner: Anil
Shastri – Janta Dal - 62.31% votes
Runner-up:
Shyam Lal Yadav – INC - 22.44% votes
Total
poll percentage - 42.64%
1991
(BJP starts its winning stint.)
Winner: Shreesh Chandra Dixit – Bhartiya Janata Party -
41.10% votes
Runner-up: Raj Kishore – Communist Party of India
(Marxist) - 32.18% votes
Other notable candidate: Lok Pati Tripathi – Indian National
Congress – 12.66% votes
Total poll percentage - 44.79%
1996
Winner: Shankar Prasad Jaiswal – Bhartiya Janata
Party - 44.62% votes
Runner-up: Raj Kishore – Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- 26.72% votes
Other notable candidate (for Congress’ abysmally low vote
share: Doodh Nath Chaturvedi – Indian National Congress – 4.01% votes
Total poll percentage - 40.58%
1998
Winner:
Shankar Prasad Jaiswal – Bhartiya Janata Party - 42.98% votes
Runner-up:
Deena Nath Singh Yadav – Communist Party of India (Marxist) - 19.42%
Other
notable candidate (Sonia Gandhi’s Hindi teacher): Dr. Ratnakar Pandey – Indian
National Congress - 9.95% votes
Total poll percentage - 47.18%
1999
Winner: Shankar
Prasad Jaiswal – Bhartiya Janata Party - 33.95% votes
Runner-up:
Rajesh Mishra – Indian National Congress - 25.48% votes
Other
notable candidate: Prof. Dipal Malik – Communist Party of India – 1.25% votes
Total poll percentage - 45.02%
2004
(Congress wins Varanasi
after 20 years.)
Winner: Rajesh
Mishra – Indian National Congress - 32.68% votes
Runner-up:
Shankar Prasad Jaiswal – Bhartiya Janata Party - 23.61% votes
Total poll percentage - 48.15%
2009
(BJP wins back the constituency somehow, not a convincing win.)
Murli
Manohar Joshi – Bhartiya Janata Party - 30.52% votes
Mukhtar
Ansari – Bahujan Samaj Party - 27.94% votes
Other
notable candidates:
Ajai Rai
– Samajwadi Party - 18.61% votes
Rajesh
Mishra – Indian National Congress - 9.98% votes
Total poll percentage - 42.61%
2014
(Varanasi
becomes the moist prestigious parliamentary constituency of the Lok Sabha
election 2014 with Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal in the fray.)
Total poll percentage – 55.34% (Provisional)
Major candidates:
Narendra Modi: Bhartiya Janata Party
Arvind Kejriwal: Aam Aadmi Party
Ajai Rai: Indian National Congress
Kailash Chaurasiya: Samajwadi Party
Vijay Prakash Jaiswal: Bahujan Samaj Party
(Poll outcome is to be declared on May 16.)
GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014 RESOURCES