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241. Varanasi Cantonment

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985

UP-VARANASI-CANTONMENT

LKD 32.2%won by 4.2%INC 28.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to LKD (LKD), which now leads by 4.2%.

  • LKD vote shareLKD went from 0.0% to 32.2% of the vote here (+32.2%).
  • 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
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
55,111
Margin
2,307
4.19%

Candidates

31 contested · winner LKD
  1. 1SHARRUDH PRAKASHLKD · LKD17,72132.2%
  2. 2GANESH PRASAD JAISWALIndian National Congress · INC15,41428.0%
  3. 3JETENDRA NATH DUBEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,53811.9%
  4. 4MOTI LAL PATELCommunist Party of India · CPI3,4126.2%
  5. 5CHANNU LAL SHASTRIIndependent · IND2,4734.5%
  6. 6RAM NARESHJanata Party · JNP2,1814.0%
  7. 7CHHOTEY LALICJ · ICJ1,0621.9%
  8. 8BHAGIRATHI PRASADIndependent · IND7321.3%
  9. 9PRASIDH NARAINIndependent · IND6271.1%
  10. 10MUSTAQ AHMADIndependent · IND5931.1%
  11. 11VINODIndependent · IND4900.9%
  12. 12VIJENDRAIndependent · IND4750.9%
  13. 13MOHD. YUNUSIndependent · IND3860.7%
  14. 14PYARE LALIndependent · IND3740.7%
  15. 15NAND LAL GUPTAIndependent · IND3470.6%
  16. 16RAM NATHIndependent · IND2980.5%
  17. 17SRI RAM SINGHIndependent · IND2300.4%
  18. 18KAHIR ALAM ANSARIIndependent · IND2040.4%
  19. 19VINOD KUMAR PANDEYIndependent · IND2030.4%
  20. 20MEWA LALIndependent · IND1960.4%
  21. 21LACHMANIndependent · IND1860.3%
  22. 22KHADERAN RAIIndependent · IND1490.3%
  23. 23RAVI SHANKARIndependent · IND1350.2%
  24. 24PARMANANDIndependent · IND1300.2%
  25. 25KALLO PRASADDDP · DDP1250.2%
  26. 26JAI PRAKASHIndependent · IND1000.2%
  27. 27RAJENDRAIndependent · IND850.2%
  28. 28SHUSHELAIndependent · IND770.1%
  29. 29MUIUDDIRIndependent · IND750.1%
  30. 30ISARJANIndependent · IND530.1%
  31. 31NARENDRA NARAINIndependent · IND400.1%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
LKDflipped
LKD–INC swing
+38.6%
LKD share
0.0% → 32.2%
INC share
34.4% → 28.0%
Turnout
— → —
240. Mughalsarai242. Varanasi South
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