Constituency
242. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1989
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
BJP 50.0%won by 27.5%INC 22.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 27.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 27.2% to 50.0% of the vote here (+22.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.5% between them, down from 83.8% — 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
79,028
Margin
21,740
27.51%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1SHYAM DEV RAI CHOUDHARY (DADA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP39,52950.0%
- 2RAJNI KANT DUTTAIndian National Congress · INC17,78922.5%
- 3DILIP DAYJanata Dal · JD14,34518.2%
- 4NARENDER PRASAD SINHACommunist Party of India · CPI3,9325.0%
- 5QUTUBUDDIN ALIAS BABUBHAIIndependent · IND6950.9%
- 6RAJKUMARIndependent · IND5680.7%
- 7ANAND MISHRAIndependent · IND5230.7%
- 8SANJAYIndependent · IND5090.6%
- 9TARAK NATHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2730.3%
- 10MOHD. ANWARIndependent · IND2400.3%
- 11VIJAY LUXMIDDP · DDP2370.3%
- 12OM PRAKASH SHASTRILkd (B) · LKDB1360.2%
- 13SHREE NATH PAEK (RANIGURU)Independent · IND1270.2%
- 14PIJAY PRATAP KUMRAIndependent · IND760.1%
- 15JAI PRAKASH GUPTAIndependent · IND490.1%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +56.9%
- BJP share
- 27.2% → 50.0%
- INC share
- 56.6% → 22.5%
- Turnout
- — → —