Constituency
248. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1969
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
BJS 35.3%won by 1.4%CPI 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 1.4%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 31.7% to 35.3% of the vote here (+3.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.1% between them, down from 81.1% — 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
59,231
Margin
837
1.41%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJS- 1SACHINDRA NATH BAKSHIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS20,89635.3%
- 2RUSTAM SATINCommunist Party of India · CPI20,05933.9%
- 3KUNJ BIHARI GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC15,92726.9%
- 4GULAB SINGHBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1,3702.3%
- 5PANDIT RAJ LAL PD. MISRARashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP5500.9%
- 6PRAN NATH PANDEYMAP · MAP2370.4%
- 7BIRENDRA KUMAR BANERJEEIndependent · IND1920.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–CPI swing
- +19.2%
- BJS share
- 31.7% → 35.3%
- CPI share
- 49.4% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —