Constituency
263. Varanasi City South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-VARANASI-CITY-SOUTH
INC 39.3%won by 8.0%CPI 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.4% to 8.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.7% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
51,459
Margin
4,094
7.96%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1GIRDHARI LALIndian National Congress · INC20,24439.3%
- 2SATIN RUSTAMCommunist Party of India · CPI16,15031.4%
- 3SARYU PRASAD DUBEJS · JS13,22625.7%
- 4BHAIYA LALSOC · SOC1,0502.0%
- 5MOHAN DASHMS · HMS7891.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −17.4%
- INC share
- 59.3% → 39.3%
- CPI share
- 33.9% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —