Constituency
242. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
INC 56.6%won by 29.4%BJP 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.3% to 29.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.8% of the vote between them, up from 63.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
50,139
Margin
14,761
29.44%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1RAJNI KANTIndian National Congress · INC28,40056.6%
- 2SHYAMDEO RAM CHAUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,63927.2%
- 3DEEPAKCommunist Party of India · CPI3,4086.8%
- 4SHANKATHA PRASADLKD · LKD1,5203.0%
- 5VIJAYJanata Party · JNP1,3702.7%
- 6MOHD. IKRAMIndependent · IND8381.7%
- 7RAMESH SINGHIndependent · IND2960.6%
- 8RAMESH PRASAD GARGIndependent · IND1860.4%
- 9JAYANTYICJ · ICJ1290.3%
- 10RADHEY SHYAMIndependent · IND1170.2%
- 11HARENDRA KUMARIndependent · IND1140.2%
- 12SAROJ KUMARIndependent · IND640.1%
- 13GUPTA NATHDDP · DDP580.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +18.1%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 56.6%
- BJP share
- 26.2% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- — → —