 "Election result 2024: Varanasi ‘Modi-Mai’ for third time, PM defeats Cong's Ajai Rai by 1.5 lakh votes")
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won from the Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi Lok Sabha seat for the third consecutive time.
PM Modi has defeated Uttar Pradesh Congress president and the opposition candidate from the seat Ajai Rai by 1,52,513 votes.
The Prime Minister bagged 6,12,970 votes, while Rai received 4,60,457.
PM Modi secured 54.24 per cent votes, while Rai settled for 40.74 per cent.
Voting in Varanasi held in the last of the seven-phase Lok Sabha election 2024 on June 1.
In the last Lok Sabha polls in 2019, PM Modi had defeated Samajwadi Party’s Shalini Yadav. He secured 63.62 per cent of the votes, winning by a margin of 674,664 votes against Yadav.
In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, PM Modi won against AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal with 56.37 per cent of votes, securing 5,81,022 votes.
Rai, who had also contested the last two elections against PM Modi was a distant third at the time.
The Varanasi Lok Sabha seat is categorised as a General category parliamentary seat.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, there were six other candidates in the fray against PM Modi. His main challengers were Rai and Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Ather Jamal Lari.
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