Electoral history of L. K. Advani

This is a summary of the electoral history of Lal Krishna Advani, who was Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004.^[1]

Advani entered into the Parliament of India in 1970 as a Member of Rajya Sabha. He served as a Member of Rajya Sabha for four terms until 1989.

Advani contested his first Lok Sabha election in 1989 from New Delhi. He was elected as a Member of the Lok Sabha by defeating V. Mohini Giri of the Indian National Congress. Later in 1991, he contested from two constituencies : Gandhinagar and New Delhi. He was elected as Member of the Lok Sabha from both the constituencies, defeating G. I. Patel in Gandhinagar and Rajesh Khanna in New Delhi.^[2] To comply with the law that an elected representative cannot represent more than one constituency, he vacated the New Delhi seat.^[3] In 1996, he did not contest Lok Sabha elections from any constituency over allegations of involvement in the Hawala scandal.^[4]

In 1998, Advani was again elected to the Lok Sabha from the Gandhinagar constituency. Later he was re-elected from the Gandhinagar in 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 and represented Gandhinagar in Parliament till 2019, when he retired from electoral politics and was succeeded by Amit Shah.

Advani served a total four terms in Parliament as a Member of Rajya Sabha and seven terms as a Member of the Lok Sabha.

Election	House	Constituency	Term in office
1970	Rajya Sabha	Delhi	1970-1976	Bharatiya Jana Sangh^[a]
1976		Gujarat	1976-1982	Bharatiya Jana Sangh^[a]
1982		Madhya Pradesh	1982-1988	Bharatiya Janata Party
1988		Madhya Pradesh	1988-1989

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Lal Krishna Advani	1,29,256	55.54
	INC	V. Mohini Giri	97,415	41.85
	Independent	Maharaj Kumar	848	0.36
	Independent	Harkesh Singh Ujjainwal	728	0.31
	Independent	Rattan	531	0.23
Majority			31,841	13.69
Turnout			2,32,744	54.19
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	L. K. Advani	356,902	57.97	−8.25
	INC	G. I. Patel	231,223	37.56	+7.23
	JP	Sendhaji Thakor	6,635	1.08	N/A
	Independent	Purushottam Mavalankar	4,757	0.77	N/A
	JD	Narendra Dixit	4,441	0.72	N/A
Margin of victory			125,679	20.41	−9.48
Turnout			625,226	45.46	−12.41
	BJP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Lal Krishna Advani	93,662	43.40
	INC	Rajesh Khanna	92,073	42.66
	JD	Manju Mohan	20,439	9.47
	JP	Himanshu Pandey	2,834	1.31
	BSP	Om Parkash	641	0.30
Majority			1,589	0.74
Turnout			2,15,834	47.32
	BJP hold		Swing

Summary

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	L. K. Advani	541,340	59.86	+7.98
	INC	P. K. Datta	264,639	29.26	−10.37
	AIRJP	Chaitanya Shambhu Maharaj	90,290	9.98	−3.33
	ABP	Sanjiv Mani Shanker Pandya	4,003	0.44	N/A
Margin of victory			276,701	30.60	+18.33
Turnout			929,643	52.13	+23.70
	BJP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	L. K. Advani	453,299	61.14	+1.28
	INC	T. N. Seshan	264,285	35.65	+6.39
	Independent	Sunilbhai Nareshchandra Shah	9,938	1.34	N/A
	SP	Mod Shankarbhai Daljibhai	5,256	0.71	N/A
Margin of victory			189,014	25.49	−5.11
Turnout			741,283	40.42	−11.71
	BJP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	L. K. Advani	516,120	61.04	−0.10
	INC	Gabhaji Mangaji Thakor	298,982	35.36	−0.29
	Independent	Sunil Shah	8,412	0.99	−0.35
	Independent	Vitthalbhai Pandya	8,395	0.99	N/A
	BSP	L. N. Medipally	6,660	0.79	N/A
Margin of victory			217,138	25.68	+0.19
Turnout			845,576	54.42	+14.00
	BJP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	L. K. Advani	4,34,044	54.89	−6.15
	INC	Sureshkumar Chaturdas Patel	3,12,297	39.49	+4.13
	Independent	Dr. Mallika Sarabhai	9,268	1.17	N/A
	Independent	Rahul Chimanhbhai Mehta	7,305	0.92	N/A
	Independent	Mahantshri Dharamdasbapu	6,612	0.84	N/A
	BSP	Rakesh Pandey	5,907	0.75	−0.04
	Independent	Sukhdevsingh Parbatsinh Vaghela	4,348	0.55	N/A
Margin of victory			1,21,747	15.40	−10.28
Turnout			7,90,737	50.83	−3.59
	BJP hold		Swing	-6.15

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	L. K. Advani	7,73,539	68.12	+13.23
	INC	Kiritbhai Ishvarbhai Patel	2,90,418	25.58	−13.91
	AAP	Rituraj Mehta	19,966	1.76	N/A
	Independent	Rahul Chimanhbhai Mehta	9,767	0.86	−0.06
	Independent	Kishorsinh Mahobatsinh Vaghela	6,705	0.59	N/A
	BSP	Niranjan Ghosh	6,068	0.53	−0.22
Margin of victory			4,83,121	42.54	+27.14
Turnout			11,37,014	65.57	+14.74
	BJP hold		Swing	+13.23