Winner, Votes & Party Details
Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1996 Results: Shankar Prasad Jaiswal of BJP won with 2,50,991 votes, defeating Raj Kishore of CPM, who received 1,50,299 votes. Shankar Prasad Jaiswal won by a margin of 1,00,692 votes, equivalent to 18.28% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 5,50,726.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
2,50,991
45.57%
CPM
1,50,299
27.29%
70,316
12.77%
AD
26,797
4.87%
22,579
4.10%
AIIC(T)
7,615
1.38%
IND
4,230
0.77%
IND
2,629
0.48%
IND
2,031
0.37%
IND
1,962
0.36%
IND
1,607
0.29%
IND
1,495
0.27%
1,327
0.24%
IND
1,294
0.23%
IND
1,045
0.19%
RMEP
1,012
0.18%
IND
979
0.18%
IND
944
0.17%
IND
850
0.15%
RPI
724
0.13%