Constituency
389. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
BJP 38.2%won by 9.1%INC 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.2% to 9.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.3% between them, down from 73.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,72,845
Turnout
55.5%
Valid votes
1,51,400
Margin
13,822
9.13%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1SHYAMDEV ROY CHAUDHARI (DADA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP57,86838.2%
- 2DR. DAYASHANKAR MISHRA DAYALUIndian National Congress · INC44,04629.1%
- 3ATAHAR JAMAL LARIQED · QED20,45413.5%
- 4MD. ISTAQBAL BABUSamajwadi Party · SP14,6429.7%
- 5KAISAR AMEEN ANSARIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,8415.8%
- 6NIYAJ ALI MANJURashtriya Lok Morcha · RLM1,2630.8%
- 7SABIRIndependent · IND1,2090.8%
- 8COMRED NIJAMUDDINCommunist Party of India · CPI9930.7%
- 9HAJI MARGUB AHAMADRUC · RUC7270.5%
- 10VINOD KUMAR SETHIndependent · IND5490.4%
- 11DINANATH DEV VANSHIM · M4370.3%
- 12KUMAR SAURABHPMSP · PMSP3710.2%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −10.1%
- BJP share
- 46.2% → 38.2%
- INC share
- 27.1% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → 55.5%