Constituency
454. Varanasi
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-VARANASI
INCI 36.9%won by 7.1%JNPS 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 7.1%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 36.9% of the vote here (+36.9%).
- New challengerJNPS (JNPS) finished second with 29.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.8% between them, down from 83.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.3% to 52.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,65,915
Turnout
52.5%
Valid votes
3,49,636
Margin
24,735
7.07%
Candidates
22 contested · winner INCI- 1KAMALAPATIINCI · INCI1,29,06336.9%
- 2RAJ NARAINJNPS · JNPS1,04,32829.8%
- 3OM PRAKASHJanata Party · JNP82,29323.5%
- 4JAGDISH CHANDRA PURVEIndependent · IND7,8272.2%
- 5NIYAJ UDDINRPK · RPK3,5541.0%
- 6NAND LAL SINGH KASHYAPIndependent · IND3,0160.9%
- 7RAM NARAINIndependent · IND2,5280.7%
- 8KARUNA NIDHAN ROYIndependent · IND2,4040.7%
- 9RAM KAILASH SINGH BHADURIYAIndependent · IND2,1840.6%
- 10GIRIJA SHANKER SINGHIndependent · IND1,7600.5%
- 11AHMAD HASANIndependent · IND1,7260.5%
- 12VIJAY NARIN MISRAIndependent · IND1,4400.4%
- 13NAND LALIndependent · IND1,1110.3%
- 14KAMAL PRAKASH SRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND1,1040.3%
- 15MILTAN CHARANIndependent · IND9920.3%
- 16RAMJIIndependent · IND9760.3%
- 17RAM LAKHAN GUPTAIndependent · IND8710.2%
- 18LALJIIndependent · IND7790.2%
- 19RAM BALI MISRA VYASRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP7580.2%
- 20SHAMBHU NATH MISRAIndependent · IND3790.1%
- 21BAIJ NATH GUPTA JAISWALIndependent · IND2950.1%
- 22PANNA LAL JAISWALIndependent · IND2480.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNPS swing
- +7.1%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 36.9%
- JNPS share
- 0.0% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- 54.8% → 52.5%