Winner, Votes & Party Details
Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1998 Results: Shankar Prasad Jaiswal of BJP won with 2,77,232 votes, defeating Deena Nath Singh Yadav of CPM, who received 1,25,286 votes. Shankar Prasad Jaiswal won by a margin of 1,51,946 votes, equivalent to 23.56% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 6,45,044.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
2,77,232
42.98%
CPM
1,25,286
19.42%
1,01,024
15.66%
AD
65,529
10.16%
64,154
9.95%
IND
3,672
0.57%
IND
1,942
0.30%
IND
1,673
0.26%
IND
1,134
0.18%
IND
974
0.15%
IND
971
0.15%
IND
832
0.13%
IND
621
0.10%