Varanasi Election Results 2024 Highlights: PM Narendra Modi wins by a margin of over 1.5 lakh votes

Varanasi Election Results 2024 Highlights: The Prime Minister defeated UP Congress Chief Ajai Rai by 152513 votes.

Varanasi Election Results 2024 Highlights: PM Modi wins from Varanasi for third time in a row (PTI)

Varanasi Election Results 2024 Highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat for the third time in a row. The prime minister defeated Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajai Rai by 1,52,513 votes, securing 612970 (54.24%) votes in total while Rai had to settle for 460457 (40.74%). Check the full coverage of the 2024 elections by Hindustan Times...Read More

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• 4 Jun 2024, 05:56:31 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: BJP wins 3, SP leading in 37 seats

  

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: A look at how different parties are doing in Uttar Pradesh

• 4 Jun 2024, 05:27:00 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Modi wins by over 1.5 lakh votes

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: The Prime Minister defeated Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajai Rai by 1,52,513 votes. PM Modi secured 612970 (54.24%) votes while Rai settled for 460457 (40.74%).

• 4 Jun 2024, 05:15:38 PM IST

  PM Narendra Modi wins from Varanasi

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won from the Varanasi seat. He has defeated UP Congress president Ajai Rai by 152513 votes.

• 4 Jun 2024, 04:42:10 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Modi with over 6 lakh votes

  

  Varanasi election result 2024 live updates

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: The Prime Minister is leading in Varanasi with a total of 6,11,439 votes, as per ECI website data.

• 4 Jun 2024, 04:16:37 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Ajay Rai trailing by 1.52 lakh

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: In the Varanasi constituency, Congress's Ajay Rai is trailing by 152355 votes, according to the Election Commission of India website.

  Narendra Modi: 611439 votes

  Ajay Rai: 459084 votes.

• 4 Jun 2024, 03:41:24 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Exit polls were fabricated, says UP Congress chief and Varanasi candidate Ajay Rai

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Uttar Pradesh Congress chief and candidate from Varanasi, Ajay Rai asserted that the exit polls were fabricated.

  He said, "I had said yesterday too that the exit poll was concocted, to mislead people and create mental pressure. We are connected to the ground reality, I had said that the INDIA alliance will give results and the outcome is before everyone."

  Expressing confidence in the victory, Rai said, "INDIA alliance is going to form the government in the country and the alliance is winning with a huge majority. We will also win Varanasi."

  According to the latest information on the ECI website Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading in Varanasi by 145091 votes.

  (inputs from PTI)

• 4 Jun 2024, 03:03:50 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Narendra Modi with 5.6 lakh votes, to win Varanasi for 3rd time in a row

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is close to winning the Varanasi seat for the third time in a row.

  Narendra Modi: 566903 votes (54.54%)

  Ajay Rai: 419220 votes (40.33%)

• 4 Jun 2024, 02:32:43 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Over 5 lakh votes for PM Modi, 3.6 lakh for Ajay Rai

  Narendra Modi (BJP): 511232

  Ajay Rai (BJD): 367847 votes

  PM Modi has secured 54.85 per cent of the total votes polled in the Varanasi constituency

• 4 Jun 2024, 02:05:17 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: What was PM Modi's win margin in 2014 and 19?

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Narendra Modi won by a margin of 674,664 votes against Samajwadi Party's Shalini Yadav. He got 63.62 per cent of the total votes.

  In 2014, Modi secured 5,81,022 or 56.37 per cent votes to defeat Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

• 4 Jun 2024, 01:46:25 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Modi's lead crosses 1 lakh mark

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading the Varanasi seat by over 1 lakh votes.

  Narendra Modi: 442500 votes

  Ajay Rai: 324960 votes.

• 4 Jun 2024, 01:15:42 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: SP leading in 35, BJP in 34 seats in UP

  

  Samajwadi Party is leading in 35 seats in Uttar Pradesh, and its alliance partner Congress is leading in seven.

  The BJP is leading in 34 seats.

  (Source: ECI website)

• 4 Jun 2024, 01:02:51 PM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Over 4,000 votes for NOTA

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Of the total votes counted so far in Varanasi, 4817 were for NOTA (none of the above), According to the Election Commission website's data. PM Modi, who contested from the seat, now has a comfortable leas of 93675 votes.

• 4 Jun 2024, 12:35:57 PM IST

  They did a fake Exit Poll and secured their money: Varanasi Congress candidate Ajay Pal

  On the share market showing a downward trend, UP Congress president and Varanasi candidate Ajay Pal said that they (BJP) did “fake exit polls” so that their people can withdraw their money comfortably.

  “This has been done deliberately - show such Exit Polls that would ensure people that their government is coming to power and share market gets bullish...They have money invested by their people. They withdrew their money comfortably. This shows that their government is going away. They did a fake Exit Poll and secured their money. The common man is troubled,” he said.

• 4 Jun 2024, 11:44:52 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM's lead is now over 60,000

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: The Prime Minister has a comfortable lead of 60,000 plus votes. Here's how the counting has progressed so far-

  NARENDRA MODI (BJP): 204624 votes

  AJAY RAI (INC): 139917

  ATHER JAMAL LARI (BSP): 13409

  KOLISETTY SHIVA KUMAR (Yuga Thulasi Party): 1968

  GAGAN PRAKASH YADAV, Apna Dal (Kamerawadi): 1270

  DINESH KUMAR YADAV (Independent): 1036

  SANJAY KUMAR TIWARI (Independent): 739

  NOTA: 3052

• 4 Jun 2024, 10:57:25 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Modi consolidates lead, now ahead by 30,000 votes

  

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has got 1,19,845 votes so far, 34,638 more than Congress candidate Ajay Rai.

• 4 Jun 2024, 10:19:03 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Narendra Modi now leading by over 16,000 votes

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Narendra Modi has secured 58,037 votes and leading by over 16,000 votes ahead of Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai (44399 votes).

• 4 Jun 2024, 09:59:07 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Modi narrows gap

  

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: As the counting progresses, the gap between Congress's Ajay Rai and PM Modi is narrowing. According to the Election Commission's data, the vote difference between the two candidates is now 1,628, which was over 6,000 votes a few minutes ago. So far, Rai has secured 21,552 and Modi has got 19,924 votes.

• 4 Jun 2024, 09:36:26 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Results 2024 Live: PM Modi trailing in Varanasi

  

  Counting data for the Varanasi constituency as per ECI

  Varanasi Election Results 2024 Live: As per the latest data available on the Election Commission's website, Congress candidate Ajay Rai is leading by 6223 votes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trailing.

• 4 Jun 2024, 09:10:15 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Results 2024 Live: Early lead for Prime Minister, Congress, SP candidates behind

  According to the trends at 8:40 am from postal ballot counting, Modi was ahead of his nearest rival Congress's Ajay Rai from Varanasi, while Singh was ahead of SP's Ravidas Mehrotra. Gandhi was ahead of BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh in Rae Bareli and Yadav ahead of BJP's Subrat Pathak in Kannuaj.

  (Source: PTI)

• 4 Jun 2024, 08:50:35 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Results 2024 Live: Three-level security in Varanasi

  “There is a three-level security arrangement in Varanasi. There is inner cordon where paramilitary is deployed. Then there is PSE and the third cordon is of local police. A total of 1,500 police officers have been deployed here. 25 gazetted officers are on duty. No one will be able to enter without proper checking,” said Mohit Agarwal, Commissioner of Varanasi.

• 4 Jun 2024, 08:43:09 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Modi leads

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: As per early trends, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading in Varanasi.

• 4 Jun 2024, 08:09:30 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Vote counting begins

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: The counting of votes in Varanasi for the 2024 Lok Sabha Election started at 8 am. More details about the leading and trailing candidate, the name of winner, vote share and other details will be shared here as the counting progresses.

• 4 Jun 2024, 07:50:49 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: Counting begins shortly

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: The counting of votes is set to begin at 8 am. Stay tuned for real-time updates from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.

• 4 Jun 2024, 07:49:20 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Modi defeated Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi in 2014

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi defeated Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with 56.37 percent of the votes, securing 5,81,022 votes in total.

• 4 Jun 2024, 07:48:00 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: What happened in 2019?

  In the 2019 elections, PM Narendra Modi won by a margin of 6,74,644 votes (63.62 per cent) against Samajwadi Party's Shalini Yadav.

• 4 Jun 2024, 07:46:03 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: When was voting done?

  Varanasi voted in the seventh and phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 on June 1. Votes will be counted and results will be announced today, June 4.

• 4 Jun 2024, 07:44:54 AM IST

  Varanasi Election Result 2024 Live: PM Modi eyeing a third win

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was elected in 2014 and 2019, is eying a third win from the city of light. With counting scheduled to begin at 8 am, his main opponent is likely to be Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Rai.