Electoral history of Rajnath Singh

This article contains a detailed summary of the electoral history of Rajnath Singh, who serves as the Minister of Defence of India since 2019 and a member of Lok Sabha from Lucknow since May 2014. He has previously served as Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and Minister of Home Affairs in First Modi ministry. He has also served twice as national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Year	Constituency		Votes	%age	Result
2009	Ghaziabad	BJP	3,59,637	43.34	Won
2014	Lucknow		5,61,106	54.27	Won
2019			6,33,026	56.70	Won
2024			6,12,709	53.89	Won

Year	Constituency	State		Votes	%age	Result
1977	Mirzapur	Uttar Pradesh	JP	35,110	56.37	Won
1980			BJP	26,866	22.92	Lost
1985				20,645	35.66	Lost
1993	Mohana			58,572	38.28	Lost
2001 (by-election)	Haidergarh			70,231	50.15	Won
2002	Haidergarh			70,993	52.65	Won

Election	House	Constituency	Term in office
1994	Rajya Sabha	Uttar Pradesh	1994-2000	Bharatiya Janata Party
2000		Uttar Pradesh	2000-2001	Bharatiya Janata Party
2002		Uttar Pradesh	2002-2008	Bharatiya Janata Party

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	612,709	53.89	−2.81
	SP	Ravidas Mehrotra	4,77,550	42.00	+16.41
	BSP	Mohd Sarwar Malik	30,192	2.66	+2.66
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,350	0.65	−0.01
Majority			1,35,159	11.89	−19.22
Turnout			11,36,892	52.34	−2.38
	BJP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	633,026	56.70	+2.43
	SP	Poonam Sinha	2,85,724	25.59	+20.10
	INC	Acharya Pramod Krishnam	1,80,011	16.12	−11.77
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,416	0.66	+0.21
Majority			3,47,302	31.11	+4.73
Turnout			11,16,445	54.72	+1.70
	BJP hold		Swing	+2.43

Summary

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	561,106	54.27	+19.34
	INC	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	2,88,357	27.89	−0.04
	BSP	Nakul Dubey	64,449	6.23	−16.65
	SP	Abhishek Mishra	56,771	5.49	−5.03
	AAP	Jaaved Jaffrey	41,429	4.01	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,696	0.45	+0.45
Majority			2,72,749	26.38	+19.38
Turnout			10,33,883	53.02	+17.69
	BJP hold		Swing	+19.34

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	359,637	43.34
	INC	Surendra Prakash Goyal	268,956	32.41
	BSP	Amarpal Sharma	180,285	21.73
Majority			90,681	10.93
Turnout			829,823	45.30
	BJP win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	70,993	52.65	+2.5
	SP	Arvind Singh	45,357	33.64	+12.31
	BSP	Hari Ram Singh	8,740	6.48	−13.98
	INC	Vishwanath Chaturvedi	2,378	1.76	+0.58
Majority			25,636	19.01
Turnout			1,34,846	63.39
	BJP hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	70,221	50.15	+25.09
	SP	Rampal Verma	29,867	21.33	−11.71
	BSP	Mata Prasad Chaudhary	28,650	20.46	new
	INC	Sarvesh Vajpai	1,649	1.17	−35.09
Majority			40,354	28.82
Turnout			1,40,030	67.02	+4.66
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rajendra Prasad	66,540	43.49	*new*
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	58,572	38.28	+8.52
	INC	Vinod Kumar	18,683	12.21	−3.32
	JD	Masood Afzal	2,378	1.76	−8.28
Majority			7,968	5.21
Turnout			1,52,999	55.59
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Asraf Imam	24,834	42.9	+2.41
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	20,645	35.66	+12.73
	LKD	Shiv Shankar	5,293	9.14	new
	JP	Ramdhani	549	0.95	+0.24
Majority			4,189	7.24
Turnout			57,891	42.16	−9.88
	INC hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC(I)	Azahar Imam	26,866	40.49	+4.6
	BJP	Rajnath Singh	15,206	22.92	new
	JP(S)	Asha Ram	11,770	17.17	new
	INC(U)	Mata Prasad	6,409	9.66	new
Majority			11,660	17.57
Turnout			66,354	52.04	−2.2
	INC gain from JP		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Rajnath Singh	35,110	56.37	*new*
	INC	Azahar Imam	22,355	35.89	+6.11
	Independent	Dina Nath	1912	3.07	new
Majority			12,755	20.48
Turnout			62,248	54.6	−4.33
	INC hold		Swing