Constituency
390. Varanasi Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2012
UP-VARANASI-CANTONMENT
BJP 32.1%won by 7.1%INC 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.5% to 7.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 57.0% of the vote between them, up from 47.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,49,472
Turnout
51.7%
Valid votes
1,80,689
Margin
12,852
7.11%
Candidates
24 contested · winner BJP- 1JYOTSANA SRIVASTAVABharatiya Janata Party · BJP57,91832.1%
- 2ANIL SRIVASTWAIndian National Congress · INC45,06624.9%
- 3ASHFAQ AHMAD ALIAS DABLUSamajwadi Party · SP37,92221.0%
- 4CHANDRA KUMAR MISHRA ALIAS GUDDU MAHARAJBahujan Samaj Party · BSP22,16212.3%
- 5MOHD. SALEEMQED · QED5,3663.0%
- 6VIKASHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1,8001.0%
- 7SHIV KUMARPMSP · PMSP1,5990.9%
- 8SHAMBHU NATH BATULAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,1070.6%
- 9RAMAKANT TRIPATHIIndependent · IND9000.5%
- 10ROHIT YADAVRashtriya Lok Morcha · RLM8770.5%
- 11ANIL KUMAR PANDEYRSMD · RSMD6590.4%
- 12SATYA PRAKASH SRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND6450.4%
- 13AFLATOONSWJP · SWJP6320.3%
- 14SADABRIJSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD5930.3%
- 15VINOD KUMARJ · J5290.3%
- 16LALJEE CHAKRAWALLPSP · LPSP5040.3%
- 17SEEMABSA · BSA4660.3%
- 18RANJIT UPADHYAYSM · SM3920.2%
- 19PARVEZ QUADIR KHANIndependent · IND3820.2%
- 20ADITYA KUMARIndependent · IND2690.1%
- 21RAM CHANDAR YADAVDSP · DSP2510.1%
- 22ARDHENDU SHEKHAR TIWARILoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP2490.1%
- 23RAVI SINGHJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2150.1%
- 24MOHAMMAD JAVEDIndependent · IND1860.1%
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
- −2.7%
- BJP share
- 26.0% → 32.1%
- INC share
- 16.3% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → 51.7%