Constituency
247. Varanasi North
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1969
UP-VARANASI-NORTH
BJS 44.5%won by 5.9%INC 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.6% to 5.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.1% of the vote between them, up from 72.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
61,266
Margin
3,642
5.94%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJS- 1SANKAR PRASAD JAISWALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS27,29144.5%
- 2GANESH PD. JAISWALIndian National Congress · INC23,64938.6%
- 3MOHD. HANIF ALIAS LOLABhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD8,35013.6%
- 4DURGA PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP6251.0%
- 5BAIYA LAL GUPTASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP5180.8%
- 6MIRZAIndependent · IND4100.7%
- 7SARSWATIIndependent · IND2240.4%
- 8KALICHARANIndependent · IND1990.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- −10.6%
- BJS share
- 44.3% → 44.5%
- INC share
- 27.8% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- — → —