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 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 | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1970-1976 | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |||
| 1976 | Gujarat | 1976-1982 | |||
| 1982 | 1982-1988 | ||||
| 1988 | 1988-1989 | ||||
| 1989 | Lok Sabha | 1989-1991 | |||
| 1991 | Vacated | ||||
| Gandhinagar | 1991-1996 | ||||
| 1998 | 1998-1999 | ||||
| 1999 | 1999-2004 | ||||
| 2004 | 2004-2009 | ||||
| 2009 | |||||
| 2014 | 2014-2019 | ||||