Constituency
390. Varanasi Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2017
UP-VARANASI-CANTONMENT
BJP 58.3%won by 26.9%INC 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.1% to 26.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.6% of the vote between them, up from 57.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.5% to 55.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,12,316
Turnout
55.2%
Valid votes
2,27,600
Margin
61,326
26.94%
Candidates
25 contested · winner BJP- 1SAURABH SRIVASTAVABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,32,60958.3%
- 2ANIL SRIVASTAVAIndian National Congress · INC71,28331.3%
- 3RIJWAN AHMADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,1186.2%
- 4AJOY MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI1,5150.7%
- 5DHURANDHAR SINGHIndependent · IND9910.4%
- 6AJAY KUMAR SINGHSAJPCS · SAJPCS7650.3%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA7580.3%
- 8VINOD KUMAR NISHAD GURUNINSHAD · NINSHAD6310.3%
- 9MRITYUNJAI VERMANationalist Congress Party · NCP6010.3%
- 10RAM PRAKASH OJHAIndependent · IND5550.2%
- 11GANESH SHANKAR CHATURVEDIIndependent · IND4690.2%
- 12BHUVANESHWAR DWIVEDI URF BABAIndependent · IND4240.2%
- 13CHANDAN URF RAM RENU CHANDAN ADVOCATEMADP · MADP3810.2%
- 14SANJAY BAJAJNJAP · NJAP2880.1%
- 15SHANKAR PRASADRTSJP · RTSJP2790.1%
- 16SUNIL KUMAR SHUKLAIndependent · IND2630.1%
- 17SURAJBHAKALP · BHAKALP2540.1%
- 18PARVEZ QUADIR KHANIEMC · IEMC2520.1%
- 19PANNA LAL YADAVIndependent · IND2390.1%
- 20SATISH KUMARSSCP · SSCP2160.1%
- 21SHATRUGHANAACP · AACP1950.1%
- 22SUNIL KUMAR MAURYAIndependent · IND1600.1%
- 23MUHAMMAD AKRAMIndependent · IND1370.1%
- 24MAHESH CHANDRA SHARMAIndependent · IND1110.0%
- 25VIJAY SHANKAR PANDEYIndependent · IND1060.0%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +19.8%
- BJP share
- 32.1% → 58.3%
- INC share
- 24.9% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- 51.7% → 55.2%