Constituency
389. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
BJP 51.8%won by 9.6%INC 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.1% to 9.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.1% to 63.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,81,290
Turnout
63.6%
Valid votes
1,78,837
Margin
17,226
9.63%
Candidates
18 contested · winner BJP- 1DR. NEELKANTH TIWARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP92,56051.8%
- 2RAJESH MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC75,33442.1%
- 3RAKESH TRIPATHIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,9223.3%
- 4SATISH KUMAR AGRAHARIIndependent · IND8440.5%
- 5RUBI FATMAIndependent · IND7990.4%
- 6SHIVNATH YADAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7400.4%
- 7MU. MUSA ANSARIIndependent · IND4640.3%
- 8None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4570.3%
- 9RITIKA RANIRKSP · RKSP3190.2%
- 10HAJI HARIS MAOUZ RAJBEEPECP · PECP2590.1%
- 11ROYAL AJEET SINGHIndependent · IND2250.1%
- 12VIMLESH KUMAR SHARMAMADP · MADP1960.1%
- 13PARVEZ QUADIR KHANIndependent · IND1880.1%
- 14ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGHJANADIP · JANADIP1270.1%
- 15KISHAN SETHIndependent · IND1200.1%
- 16PRIYA AGRAWALMAJP · MAJP1060.1%
- 17NARENDRA NATH DUBEY ADIGBHAKALP · BHAKALP910.1%
- 18IMRANVIP · VIP860.0%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +0.5%
- BJP share
- 38.2% → 51.8%
- INC share
- 29.1% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- 55.5% → 63.6%