Constituency
225. Varanasi Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2002
UP-VARANASI-CANTONMENT
BJP 31.1%won by 9.5%SP 21.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.2% to 9.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.6% between them, down from 63.9% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,33,405
Margin
12,697
9.52%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1HARISH CHAND SRIVASTAVA (HARISH JI)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,42631.1%
- 2MANOJ RAI PAPPUSamajwadi Party · SP28,72921.5%
- 3MOHAMMAD ISTAQBAL QRESHI ALIAS BABU BHAIApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD20,91515.7%
- 4SHATRUDRA PRAKASHIndian National Congress · INC18,04113.5%
- 5ABHISHEK YADAV ALIAS GUDDU YADAVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP15,59511.7%
- 6HANS RAJRTKP · RTKP3,0132.3%
- 7SHANKARIndependent · IND1,2150.9%
- 8SURYA KUMAR GONDGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP8930.7%
- 9VIKASHNationalist Congress Party · NCP6610.5%
- 10CHAMPAIndependent · IND5300.4%
- 11MALTI GOSWAMIPTSS · PTSS4730.4%
- 12RAMJIIndependent · IND4600.3%
- 13NARENDRA NATH DUBEY "ADIG"Rashtriya Janata Dal · RJD4450.3%
- 14VIKASH NARAYAN DUBEY (TIKA)Shiv Sena · SHS4330.3%
- 15DR. RAKESH SINGHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL3160.2%
- 16RAJKUMAR SONEKARIndependent · IND2600.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −12.7%
- BJP share
- 43.0% → 31.1%
- SP share
- 20.8% → 21.5%
- Turnout
- — → —