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Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 UP: PM Modi wins from Varanasi by 4,79,505 votes

Varanasi is one of the most high-profile constituencies in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who won the seat in 2014, is seeking re-election from 2019.

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Varanasi is one of the most high-profile constituencies in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who won the seat in 2014, is seeking re-election from 2019. He is up against Congress' Ajay Rai and SP's Shalini Yadav.

The constituency went to polls in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 19.

Election Results 2019

Follow live updates of Varanasi Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 here

19:59 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: NARENDRA MODI (BJP) - 674664 (63.62%), SHALINI YADAV (SP) - 195159 (18.4%), AJAY RAI (Congress) - 152548 (14.38%)

14:45 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: NARENDRA MODI (BJP) - 431773 (63.77%), SHALINI YADAV (SP)-132621 (19.59%), AJAY RAI (Congress) - 86376 (12.76%)

11:38 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: NARENDRA MODI- 215258-64.72%, SHALINI YADAV- 64721- 19.46%, AJAY RAI- 40400-12.15%

9:56 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: NARENDRA MODI - 47703, SHALINI YADAV - 21382, AJAY RAI - 10239

9:26 IST Thursday, 23 May 2019: NARENDRA MODI- 14387, SHALINI YADAV- 7088, AJAY RAI- 872

Constituency profile

One of the 80 parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi was represented by Dr Murli Manohar Joshi from 2009 to 2014 but he was asked by the party leadership to leave the seat for Modi. 

In 2014 election in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was pitted against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Congress' Ajay Rai. While Modi got over 5,81,000 votes, Kejriwal and Rai managed about 2,09,000 and 75,000 votes respectively.

The seat is a stronghold of the BJP with the party winning it for four consecutive terms from 1991 to 1999. While Shrish Chandra Dikshit emerged victorious in 1991, Shankar Prasad Jaiswal won in 1996, 1998 and 1999. Jaiswal was defeated by Rajesh Kumar Mishra of the Congress. The BJP won back the seat in 2009 when Dr Murli Manohar Joshi defeated mafia don Mukhtar Ansari by 18,000 votes. 

This election, the Samajwadi Party has nominated Shalini Yadav as the candidate for the SP-BSP-RLD alliance while the Congress has fielded former MLA Ajai Rai. 

Rai, a gangster-turned-politician, had unsuccessfully contested against Modi in 2014 and finished third in the contest after the BJP leader and Kejriwal. 

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: State Profile

In the last parliamentary elections in 2014, the BJP had won 71 seats in the state, securing 42.63 per cent of the votes. BJP ally Apna Dal bagged two more. The Samajwadi Party had won five seats with a vote share of 22.35 per cent. The BSP did not win any seat but secured 19.77 per cent votes. The Congress registered wins on two UP seats in 2014, bagging 7.53 per cent of the votes. 

UP is facing a triangular battle between the BJP, the Congress and BSP-SP-RLD alliance. Under the alliance's seat-sharing formula, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting on 38 Lok Sabha seats of the total 80 seats, Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party on 37 seats and the Chaudhary Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on three seats. The alliance has left two for Congress' Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi). 

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