Constituency
241. Varanasi Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1991
UP-VARANASI-CANTONMENT
BJP 37.4%won by 6.1%JD 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 6.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 15.8% to 37.4% of the vote here (+21.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.7% of the vote between them, up from 62.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
83,718
Margin
5,096
6.09%
Candidates
28 contested · winner BJP- 1JYOTSANA SRIVASTAVABharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,30537.4%
- 2ATHAT JAMAL LARIJanata Dal · JD26,20931.3%
- 3ANIL KUMR SRIVASTAVAIndian National Congress · INC10,09112.1%
- 4SATRUDAR PRAKASHJanahitha Paksha · JP8,2009.8%
- 5MANSHA RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7923.3%
- 6VIJAY KUMAR BHARTICommunist Party of India · CPI2,0322.4%
- 7KUNIYALKD · LKD4560.5%
- 8MANDVI PRASADIndependent · IND3240.4%
- 9GARIBIndependent · IND3090.4%
- 10ARJUNIndependent · IND2390.3%
- 11SUBHASHIndependent · IND1700.2%
- 12MOHD. ZAFARIndependent · IND1610.2%
- 13BIHARIIndependent · IND1470.2%
- 14PARMOD MATHURIndependent · IND1470.2%
- 15MAHA NANDIndependent · IND1460.2%
- 16ANSHDARIndependent · IND1170.1%
- 17GULABIndependent · IND1100.1%
- 18SHIV SHANKARIndependent · IND1020.1%
- 19CHHATTU RAM AKELAIndependent · IND830.1%
- 20OM PARKASHIndependent · IND790.1%
- 21RAJENDARIndependent · IND710.1%
- 22UMA SHANKARIndependent · IND700.1%
- 23N.L. YADAVIndependent · IND700.1%
- 24UDALDDP · DDP660.1%
- 25RAM JIIndependent · IND640.1%
- 26AMAR NATH GUPTAIndependent · IND560.1%
- 27MAHESHIndependent · IND540.1%
- 28RAM NATHIndependent · IND480.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–JD swing
- +32.2%
- BJP share
- 15.8% → 37.4%
- JD share
- 41.9% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —