This is a summary of the electoral history of Narendra Modi, who is the incumbent Prime Minister of India since 2014 and served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He currently represents Varanasi as a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament.
He contested his first election in February 2002 by-election to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from the Rajkot II constituency.[1] Later that year in 2002 elections he contested from Maninagar and won. He was re-elected from Maninagar in 2007 and 2012 and represented the constituency till 2014 when he became the Prime Minister of India.
In 2014, Modi contested for the two Lok Sabha constituencies: Varanasi and Vadodara.[2] He won in both constituencies, defeating Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi and Madhusudan Mistry of the Indian National Congress in Vadodara.[3] To comply with the law that an elected representative cannot represent more than one constituency, he vacated the Vadodara seat.[4] In 2019 he was again re-elected from Varanasi.
- ^ Uday Mahurkar (25 February 2002). "Rajkot II by-elections: Narendra Modi pushes his own image as a rising star of BJP". indiatoday.in/magazine. India Today. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
While the focus is on the assembly elections in four states, the real drama seems to be in a quintet of by-elections in which everyone from a former prime minister, a current chief minister and a super chief minister are contesting.
- ^ "Narendra Modi files nomination in Vadodara after grand roadshow". NDTV. 9 April 2014. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ "Modi's Vadodara victory margin not highest-ever". Business Standard. 16 May 2014. Archived from the original on 12 April 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ "Modi thanks Vadodara, looks forward to serve Ganga". Hindustan Times. Press Trust of India. 29 May 2014. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.