Constituency
227. Varanasi North
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2002
UP-VARANASI-NORTH
SP 52.5%won by 18.1%BJP 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedSamajwadi Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.1% to 18.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.0% between them, down from 95.1% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,08,120
Margin
19,537
18.07%
Candidates
10 contested · winner SP- 1ABDUL KALAMSamajwadi Party · SP56,80552.5%
- 2RAVINDRA JAISWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,26834.5%
- 3ABDUL AZIZ ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC6,7296.2%
- 4RAJENDRA PRASAD KUSHWAHABahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,2273.9%
- 5RAM NARAYANIndependent · IND9620.9%
- 6PREM CHAND (P.C. GUPTA) "YUVRAJ"Nationalist Congress Party · NCP9270.9%
- 7KISHUN LAL SETHRTKP · RTKP6340.6%
- 8DINESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND2380.2%
- 9GANGA SAHAY PANDEYABLTC · ABLTC1900.2%
- 10RANA SHAH JAISWALABBP · ABBP1400.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SP
- Winner now
- SP
- SP–BJP swing
- +8.9%
- SP share
- 52.1% → 52.5%
- BJP share
- 43.0% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- — → —