Constituency
242. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1991
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
BJP 65.2%won by 49.8%JD 15.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.5% to 49.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Janata Dal (JD).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.6% of the vote between them, up from 72.5% — 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
88,749
Margin
44,167
49.77%
Candidates
19 contested · winner BJP- 1SHYAM DEV RAI CHAUDHARY (DADA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP57,82965.2%
- 2VIJAY DUBEJanata Dal · JD13,66215.4%
- 3GIRISH SHASTRIIndian National Congress · INC9,17910.3%
- 4ARUN CHAUBEYIndependent · IND3,2153.6%
- 5SANTOSH KUMAR PANDAJIIndependent · IND1,3961.6%
- 6ABDULLABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3291.5%
- 7VIJAY LAXMIIndependent · IND6800.8%
- 8BALA SHANKAR TIWARI URF BALE GURUIndependent · IND5360.6%
- 9BACHCHEY LAL YADAVIndependent · IND2100.2%
- 10SRI CHANDERIndependent · IND1510.2%
- 11ABDUL RASIDIndependent · IND1460.2%
- 12SARVAR KHANIndependent · IND1000.1%
- 13MANAS RATAN KRISHNA NAND TRIPATHIIndependent · IND700.1%
- 14ISTKHAR AHMADIndependent · IND690.1%
- 15HARI DASIndependent · IND590.1%
- 16ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND380.0%
- 17ABHIJITIndependent · IND340.0%
- 18TARAK NATHIndependent · IND310.0%
- 19PARDEEP KUMARIndependent · IND150.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–JD swing
- +17.9%
- BJP share
- 50.0% → 65.2%
- JD share
- 18.2% → 15.4%
- Turnout
- — → —