Constituency
388. Varanasi North
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2022
UP-VARANASI-NORTH
BJP 54.6%won by 16.6%SP 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.0% to 16.6%.
- New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 38.1% — it did not contest here in 2017.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,29,112
Turnout
57.4%
Valid votes
2,46,225
Margin
40,776
16.56%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1Ravindra JaiswalBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,34,47154.6%
- 2AshfaqueSamajwadi Party · SP93,69538.1%
- 3Shyam PrakashBahujan Samaj Party · BSP10,4574.2%
- 4Gulerana SabassumIndian National Congress · INC3,1021.3%
- 5Harish MishraAll India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen · AIMIM1,6430.7%
- 6None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5320.6%
- 7Dr. Ashish Kumar JaiswalAam Aadmi Party · AAP9790.4%
- 8Asif IqbalIndependent · IND3460.1%
Since 2017
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −34.4%
- BJP share
- 51.0% → 54.6%
- SP share
- 0.0% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 59.2% → 57.4%