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. In 1996, he did not contest Lok Sabha elections from any constituency over allegations of involvement in the Hawala scandal.[3]

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 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.

Parliamentary terms

1989: Elected to 9th Lok Sabha(1st term) New Delhi
1991: Elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1998: Elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1999: Elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)
2004: Elected to 14th Lok Sabha (5th term)
2009: Elected to 15th Lok Sabha (6th term)
2014: Elected to 16th Lok Sabha (7th term)

Election results

1991 results

1991 Indian general election: Gandhinagar[4]
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

1991 Indian general election: New Delhi
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

1989 results

1989 Indian general election: New Delhi
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

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References

"Members Bioprofile". Lok Sabha of India/National Informatics Centre, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
M. L. Ahuja; Sharda Paul (1992). 1989-1991 General Elections in India: Including November 1991 By-elections. Associated Publishing House. p. 141. ISBN 978-81-7045-085-6.
Kumar Shakti Shekhar (1 November 2017). "How Advani will create Parliamentary history whether he contests 2019 Lok Sabha elections or not". indiatoday.in. New Delhi: India Today Group. Retrieved 15 July 2020. But, he resigned in 1996 in the wake of the Jain hawala diary case. He chose not to contest 1996 Lok Sabha election till his name was cleared.
"Statistical Report on General Elections, 1991 to the Tenth Lok Sabha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 180. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2014.

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[1] "Members Bioprofile". Lok Sabha of India/National Informatics Centre, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2011.

[AhujaPaul1992-2] M. L. Ahuja; Sharda Paul (1992). 1989-1991 General Elections in India: Including November 1991 By-elections. Associated Publishing House. p. 141. ISBN 978-81-7045-085-6.

[3] Kumar Shakti Shekhar (1 November 2017). "How Advani will create Parliamentary history whether he contests 2019 Lok Sabha elections or not". indiatoday.in. New Delhi: India Today Group. Retrieved 15 July 2020. But, he resigned in 1996 in the wake of the Jain hawala diary case. He chose not to contest 1996 Lok Sabha election till his name was cleared.

[4] "Statistical Report on General Elections, 1991 to the Tenth Lok Sabha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 180. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2014.