Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Varanasi #77GEN
Won
Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
17,211 2.6 pp
votes
over Mukhtar Ansari (BSP)
The contest
Electors15,61,854
Votes polled6,65,719
Turnout42.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electorsnot recorded
Female electorsnot recorded
Sex ratio
not recorded
Poll date16 Apr 2009
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi | BJP | 2,03,122 | 30.50% | |
| 2 | Mukhtar Ansari | BSP | 1,85,911 | 27.90% | |
| 3 | Ajay Rai | SP | 1,23,874 | 18.60% | |
| 4 | Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra | INC | 66,386 | 10.00% | |
| 5 | Vijay Prakash Jaiswal | AD | 65,912 | 9.90% | |
| 6 | Satya Prakash Srivastava | IND | 5,279 | 0.80% | |
| 7 | Narendra Nath Dubey Adig | IND | 2,826 | 0.40% | |
| 8 | Rajesh Bharti | IND | 2,116 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Pushp Raj Sahu | IND | 1,830 | 0.30% | |
| 10 | Kishun Lal | IJP | 1,627 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Awadhesh Kumar Kushwaha | RSD | 1,607 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Er. Shyam Lal Vishwakarma | MAP | 1,582 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | Anand Kumar Ambastha | IND | 1,454 | 0.20% | |
| 14 | Parvez Quadir Khan | IND | 1,243 | 0.20% | |
| 15 | Usha Singh | RAD | 721 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 229, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 665,490 · NOTA n/a · published 665,719 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2009
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