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241. Varanasi Cantonment

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980

UP-VARANASI-CANTONMENT

INC 34.4%won by 11.3%JNPSR 23.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.3%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 26.9% to 34.4% of the vote here (+7.5%).
  • New challengerJNPSR (JNPSR) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.5% between them, down from 85.7% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
49,525
Margin
5,616
11.34%

Candidates

15 contested · winner INC
  1. 1MANDAVI PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC17,05134.4%
  2. 2SATRUDRA PRAKASHJNPSR · JNPSR11,43523.1%
  3. 3MAHENDRA NATHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,17312.5%
  4. 4NARENDRA PRATAP VERMAJNPSC · JNPSC4,8939.9%
  5. 5GOBARDHAN RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI3,4967.1%
  6. 6MOHD. RAFIQUE RAZVIINCU · INCU2,6515.4%
  7. 7BASANTIndependent · IND1,2122.4%
  8. 8NASRUDDINIndependent · IND9882.0%
  9. 9VIJAI BAHADURJanata Party · JNP4841.0%
  10. 10SRI RAM MURATIndependent · IND4230.9%
  11. 11MOHD. ZAFFARIndependent · IND2550.5%
  12. 12RAM LAKHAN GUPTAIndependent · IND1520.3%
  13. 13VISHWA NATH SINGH YADAVAIndependent · IND1470.3%
  14. 14BHAGAT SINGHSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD1370.3%
  15. 15KHURSID ALAMIndependent · IND280.1%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
JNP
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–JNPSR swing
−15.6%
INC share
26.9% → 34.4%
JNPSR share
0.0% → 23.1%
Turnout
— → —
240. Mughalsarai242. Varanasi South
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