Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Varanasi #48GEN
Won
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra
INC Indian National CongressMargin
57,436 9.1 pp
votes
over Shankar Prasad Jaiswal (BJP)
The contest
Electors14,87,696
Votes polled6,33,729
Turnout42.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors8.18 L55.0% of electorate
Female electors6.69 L45.0% of electorate
Sex ratio
818females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra | INC | 2,06,904 | 32.60% | |
| 2 | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | BJP | 1,49,468 | 23.60% | |
| 3 | Atahar Jamal Lari | AD | 93,228 | 14.70% | |
| 4 | Amir Chand Patel | BSP | 59,518 | 9.40% | |
| 5 | Anjana Prakash | SP | 59,104 | 9.30% | |
| 6 | Shalendra Kumar Alias "ex Dy. S.P" | IND | 28,533 | 4.50% | |
| 7 | Kanhaya | SBSP | 7,550 | 1.20% | |
| 8 | Dr. Heera Lal Yadav | CPIM | 6,379 | 1.00% | |
| 9 | Ram Prasad Bavla | IND | 5,878 | 0.90% | |
| 10 | Suresh Singh Alias Suresh | IND | 2,733 | 0.40% | |
| 11 | Narendra Nath Dubey Adig | IND | 2,477 | 0.40% | |
| 12 | Dinesh Chandra Pandey | PMSP | 2,110 | 0.30% | |
| 13 | Dev Raj | IND | 2,091 | 0.30% | |
| 14 | Ramji | IND | 2,006 | 0.30% | |
| 15 | Kamal Chand | GGP | 1,824 | 0.30% | |
| 16 | Khagendra Nath Pandey | IND | 1,297 | 0.20% | |
| 17 | Ganesh Ram | IND | 1,069 | 0.20% | |
| 18 | Lalji Ram | PSSP | 908 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 652, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 633,077 · NOTA n/a · published 633,729 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004
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- 2026-09-13