PM Narendra Modi won the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh for the third straight time, EC confirmed. He defeated his nearest rival, Congress' Ajay Rai, by 1,52,513 votes. In 2014, he won the seat by a margin of over 3 lakh votes and in 2019, he won by 4.8 lakh votes. Varanasi voted on June 1.