Electoral history of Narendra Modi

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This is a summary of the electoral history of Narendra Modi, who is the incumbent Prime Minister of India since 2014 and served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He currently represents Varanasi as a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament.

He contested his first election in February 2002 by-election to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from the Rajkot II constituency.[1] Later that year in 2002 elections he contested from Maninagar and won. He was re-elected from Maninagar in 2007 and 2012 and represented the constituency till 2014 when he became the Prime Minister of India.

In 2014, Modi contested for the two Lok Sabha constituencies: Varanasi and Vadodara.[2] He won in both constituencies, defeating Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi and Madhusudan Mistry of the Indian National Congress in Vadodara.[3] To comply with the law that an elected representative cannot represent more than one constituency, he vacated the Vadodara seat.[4] In 2019 he was again re-elected from Varanasi.

Summary

Election House Constituency Result Party
2002[a] Gujarat Legislative Assembly Rajkot II Won BJP
2002 Maninagar Won
2007 Won
2012 Won
2014 Loksabha Vadodara[b] Won
Varanasi Won
2019 Won

Election results

Parliamentary elections

General election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Varanasi
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Narendra Modi 674,664 63.62 +7.25
SP Shalini Yadav 195,159 18.40 +14.11
INC Ajay Rai 152,548 14.38 +7.04
SBSP Surendra Rajbhar 8,892 0.84 New
Janhit Kisan Party Anil Kumar Chaurasiya 2,758 0.26 New
NOTA None of the Above 4,037 0.38 +0.18
Majority 479,505 45.22 +9.15
Turnout 1,060,829 57.13 -1.22
BJP hold Swing +7.25

General election 2014

2014 Indian general election: Varanasi
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Narendra Modi 581,022 56.37 +25.85
AAP Arvind Kejriwal 209,238 20.30 New
INC Ajay Rai 75,614 7.34 -2.64
BSP Vijay Prakash Jaiswal 60,579 5.88 -22.06
SP Kailash Chaurasiya 45,291 4.39 -14.22
NOTA None of the Above 2,051 0.20 New
Majority 371,784 36.07 +33.49
Turnout 1,030,812 58.35 +15.74
BJP hold Swing +25.85
2014 Indian general election: Vadodara[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Narendra Modi 8,45,464 72.75 +15.35
INC Madhusudan Mistry 2,75,336 23.69 -15.48
AAP Sunil Digambar Kulkarni 10,101 0.87 N/A
BSP Rohit Madhusudan Mohanbhai 5,782 0.50 -0.32
SUCI(C) Tapan Dasgupta 2,249 0.19 N/A
SP Sahebkhan Asifkhan Pathan 2,101 0.18 N/A
JD(U) Ambalal Kanabhai Jadav 1,382 0.12 N/A
Apna Desh Party Mahemudkhan Razakkhan Pathan 1,109 0.10 N/A
NOTA None of the Above 18,053 1.55 N/A
Majority 5,70,128 49.06 +30.85
Turnout 11,62,168 70.94 +21.82
Registered electors 15,90,810
BJP hold Swing +15.42

Legislative Assembly elections

2012

2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Maninagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Narendra Modi 1,20,470 75.38 +5.85
INC Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt 34,097 21.34 -4.77
Independent Pavanbhai Shravanbhai Makan 1,488 0.93 +0.93
BSP Siddharth Yasvantray Kashyap 1,251 0.78 -1.19
CPI Vinod Brahmbhatt 1,098 0.69 +0.69
Majority 86,373 54.04 +10.62
Turnout 1,59,807 70.07 +9.14
BJP hold Swing +5.85

2007

2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Maninagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Narendra Modi 1,39,568 69.53 -3.76
INC Dinsha Patel 52,407 26.11 +1.43
BSP Renu Varunkumar Kavatra 3,955 1.97 +1.97
Independent Bhimjibhai Devabhai Prajapati 1,731 0.86 +0.86
CPI(ML)L Amitkumar Lakshmanbhai Patanvadiya 1,045 0.52 +0.52
Majority 87,161 43.42 -5.19
Turnout 2,00,725 60.93 +10.74
BJP hold Swing -3.76

December 2002

2002 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Maninagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Narendra Modi 1,13,589 73.29 +12.15
INC Yatinbhai Oza 38,256 24.68 -7.57
Independent Harishbhai Ramchandra Sharma 1,946 1.26 +1.26
SP Satubha Kanubha Vaghela 1,190 0.77 -0.65
Majority 75,333 48.61 +19.72
Turnout 1,54,981 50.19 +8.62
BJP hold Swing +12.15

February 2002

2002 Gujarat Legislative Assembly by-election: Rajkot II[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Narendra Modi 45298 57.32
INC Ashwinbhai Narbheshankar Mehta 30570 38.68
Independent Bharatbhai Bhikhalal Makwana 748 0.95
Turnout 79028
BJP hold Swing

See also

Notes

  1. ^ By election
  2. ^ Vacated

References

  1. ^ Uday Mahurkar (25 February 2002). "Rajkot II by-elections: Narendra Modi pushes his own image as a rising star of BJP". indiatoday.in/magazine. India Today. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020. While the focus is on the assembly elections in four states, the real drama seems to be in a quintet of by-elections in which everyone from a former prime minister, a current chief minister and a super chief minister are contesting.
  2. ^ "Narendra Modi files nomination in Vadodara after grand roadshow". NDTV. 9 April 2014. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Modi's Vadodara victory margin not highest-ever". Business Standard. 16 May 2014. Archived from the original on 12 April 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Modi thanks Vadodara, looks forward to serve Ganga". Hindustan Times. Press Trust of India. 29 May 2014. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election – 2014". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  7. ^ "BYE - ELECTIONS -FEBRUARY,2002". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 June 2020. Legislative Assembly of Gujarat Assembly Constituency - 18- Rajkot II