Constituency
246. Varanasi Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1969
UP-VARANASI-CANTONMENT
INC 37.0%won by 13.2%BJS 23.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.7% to 37.0% of the vote here (+13.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 60.8% of the vote between them, up from 49.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
56,164
Margin
7,387
13.15%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1LAL BAHADURIndian National Congress · INC20,77637.0%
- 2VARMESHWAR PANDEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,38923.8%
- 3VIJAI BAHADURSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP5,5259.8%
- 4SATYA NARAIN TEWARICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,1567.4%
- 5IQBAL AHAMADIndependent · IND3,6976.6%
- 6SAGAR SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,4826.2%
- 7SITA ALIAS SITA RAM MAHANTRPI · RPI1,3572.4%
- 8HARI SHANKER PATHAKBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1,3292.4%
- 9RAM JI LALIndependent · IND8871.6%
- 10RAGHUBIR PRASADMAP · MAP5591.0%
- 11VISHWANATHIndependent · IND5080.9%
- 12GAURI ALIAS GAURI SHANKERIndependent · IND3100.6%
- 13JAGARNATH PRASADIndependent · IND1890.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +15.3%
- INC share
- 23.7% → 37.0%
- BJS share
- 25.9% → 23.8%
- Turnout
- — → —