Constituency
242. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1974
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
BJS 32.4%won by 10.5%CPI 22.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.4% to 10.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.4% between them, down from 69.1% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 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
61,149
Margin
6,395
10.46%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJS- 1CHARAN DAS SETHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS19,82632.4%
- 2GIRIJESH RAICommunist Party of India · CPI13,43122.0%
- 3BUDH RAM SINGH YADVABhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD12,71620.8%
- 4DEO BRATA MAJUMDARSOP · SOP12,07719.8%
- 5SATISH KUMARNCO · NCO1,3742.2%
- 6DHARMA SHEELSwatantra Party · SWA7121.2%
- 7MADHUSUDANRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP5550.9%
- 8VIRASAT HUSAINIndependent · IND2410.4%
- 9BALDEO PRASAD SETHIndependent · IND2170.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–CPI swing
- +9.0%
- BJS share
- 35.3% → 32.4%
- CPI share
- 33.9% → 22.0%
- Turnout
- — → —