Constituency
389. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 2022
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
BJP 50.9%won by 5.5%SP 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.6% to 5.5%.
- New challengerSamajwadi Party (SP) finished second with 45.4% — it did not contest here in 2017.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.0% to 60.5%.
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Electorate
3,23,392
Turnout
60.5%
Valid votes
1,95,782
Margin
10,722
5.48%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1Dr. Neelkanth TiwariBharatiya Janata Party · BJP99,62250.9%
- 2Kameshwar alias Kishan DixitSamajwadi Party · SP88,90045.4%
- 3Mudita KapoorIndian National Congress · INC2,1661.1%
- 4Dinesh KasaudhanBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8550.9%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA9380.5%
- 6Ajeet SinghAam Aadmi Party · AAP9220.5%
- 7Parvez Quadir KhanAll India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen · AIMIM5900.3%
- 8Subhash Chandra ChaurasiyaRBP · RBP2650.1%
- 9ReyazuddhinIndependent · IND1630.1%
- 10Shiv Prasad GuptaRTRP · RTRP1490.1%
- 11Virendra Kumar GuptaASPKR · ASPKR1090.1%
- 12Arpan PathakLok Janshakti Party(Ram Vilas) · LJPRV1030.1%
Since 2017
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–SP swing
- −46.3%
- BJP share
- 51.8% → 50.9%
- SP share
- 0.0% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- 63.6% → 60.5%