Electoral history of Narendra Modi

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
2002^[a]	Gujarat Legislative Assembly	Rajkot II	Won	BJP
2002		Maninagar	Won
2007			Won
2012			Won
2014	Lok Sabha	Vadodara^[b]	Won
2014		Varanasi	Won
2019			Won
2024			Won

Parliamentary elections

General election 2024

2024 Indian general elections: Varanasi^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narendra Modi	612,970	54.24	−9.38
	INC	Ajay Rai	460,457	40.74	+26.36
	BSP	Athar Jamal Lari	33,766	2.99	New
	Yuga Thulasi Party	Kolisetty Shiva Kumar	5,750	0.51
	AD(K)	Gagan Prakash Yadav	3,634	0.32
	Independent	Dinesh Kumar Yadav	2,917	0.25
	Independent	Sanjay Kumar Tiwari	2,171	0.19
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,478	0.75
Majority			152,513	13.50	−31.72
Turnout			1,130,143	56.57	−0.56
Registered electors			1,997,578
	BJP hold		Swing	-17.87

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^[6]^[7]
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^[8]
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

Notes

^ By election
^ Vacated

References

^ 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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ The Hindu. "PM Narendra Modi wins from Varanasi for third consecutive term, victory margin lowest". Archived from the original on 4 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
^ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.
^ "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election – 2014". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
^ "BYE - ELECTIONS -FEBRUARY,2002". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 June 2020. Legislative Assembly of Gujarat Assembly Constituency - 18- Rajkot II

[5] By election

[6] Vacated

[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.

[PM_Narendra_Modi_wins_from_Varanasi_for_third_consecutive_term,_victory_margin_lowest-7] The Hindu. "PM Narendra Modi wins from Varanasi for third consecutive term, victory margin lowest". Archived from the original on 4 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

[Constituencywise-All_Candidates-8] "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.

[9] "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election – 2014". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 24 September 2014.

[10] "BYE - ELECTIONS -FEBRUARY,2002". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 June 2020. Legislative Assembly of Gujarat Assembly Constituency - 18- Rajkot II

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