Constituency
243. Varanasi North
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-VARANASI-NORTH
SP 52.1%won by 9.1%BJP 43.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Samajwadi Party (SP), which now leads by 9.1%.
- SP vote shareSP went from 10.5% to 52.1% of the vote here (+41.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 74.3% — 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
1,29,247
Margin
11,810
9.14%
Candidates
7 contested · winner SP- 1ABDUL KALAMSamajwadi Party · SP67,34952.1%
- 2AMAR NATH YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP55,53943.0%
- 3MOTI LAL SETHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,1824.0%
- 4MRIDULIndependent · IND4560.4%
- 5USHA DEVIBHJS · BHJS4020.3%
- 6GAURI SHANKARABJS · ABJS2180.2%
- 7ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND1010.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- SPflipped
- SP–BJP swing
- +39.2%
- SP share
- 10.5% → 52.1%
- BJP share
- 40.5% → 43.0%
- Turnout
- — → —