GEN · Uttar Pradesh
Varanasi
Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi (BJP) won by 17,211 votes (2.6%).
- Electors
- 15,61,854
- Votes polled
- 6,65,719
- Valid votes
- 6,65,450
- Turnout
- 42.6%
- NOTA
- 0
- Polling date
- 2009-04-16
Margin vs 2009 national median: 2.6% (median 7.0%). Back to Uttar Pradesh · 2009 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Comfortable (10–20%)Party held vs 2019
- Margin · 2024
- 13.6%(-31.8%)
- Turnout
- 56.6%(-2.9%)
- NOTA
- 0.8%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 95.7%
Winning margin over time · Varanasi
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Murli Manohar JoshiWinner | BJP | 2,03,122 | 30.5% |
| 2 | Mukhtar Ansari | BSP | 1,85,911 | 27.9% |
| 3 | Ajay Rai | SP | 1,23,874 | 18.6% |
| 4 | Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra | INC | 66,386 | 10.0% |
| 5 | Vijay Prakash Jaiswal | AD | 65,912 | 9.9% |
| 6 | Satya Prakash Srivastava | IND | 5,279 | 0.8% |
| 7 | Narendra Nath Dubey Adig | IND | 2,826 | 0.4% |
| 8 | Rajesh Bharti | IND | 2,116 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Pushp Raj Sahu | IND | 1,830 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Kishun Lal | IJP | 1,627 | 0.2% |
| 11 | Awadhesh Kumar Kushwaha | RSMD | 1,607 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Er. Shyam Lal Vishwakarma | MADP | 1,582 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Anand Kumar Ambastha | IND | 1,454 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Parvez Quadir Khan | IND | 1,243 | 0.2% |
| 15 | Usha Singh | RAD | 721 | 0.1% |
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