Constituency
454. Varanasi
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-VARANASI
JD 62.3%won by 39.9%INC 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Dal (JD), which now leads by 39.9%.
- JD vote shareJD went from 0.0% to 62.3% of the vote here (+62.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.8% of the vote between them, up from 57.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 12.5% to 41.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,41,360
Turnout
41.3%
Valid votes
4,30,403
Margin
1,71,603
39.87%
Candidates
18 contested · winner JD- 1ANIL SHASTRIJanata Dal · JD2,68,19662.3%
- 2SHYAM LAL YADAVIndian National Congress · INC96,59322.4%
- 3GANGA RAM GWALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP32,5747.6%
- 4RAM DASIndependent · IND12,4202.9%
- 5RAM MURATDDP · DDP3,1110.7%
- 6NANHEIndependent · IND2,4610.6%
- 7RAM BALI HISRA BYASRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP2,1030.5%
- 8RAJ NATH PANDEYLkd (B) · LKDB2,0770.5%
- 9AMAR NATH GUPTAIndependent · IND2,0420.5%
- 10GAJA NAND DASIndependent · IND1,8220.4%
- 11MOHAN SWAROOP VERMASOP · SOP1,5220.4%
- 12INDRAJEETIndependent · IND1,2980.3%
- 13PRAMOD KUMAR PANDEYIndependent · IND1,0210.2%
- 14KRISHNA KUMAR TIWARIIndependent · IND8400.2%
- 15RATAN CHANDRA VERMAIndependent · IND6920.2%
- 16V. T. R. VEERAPPA GOUNDERIndependent · IND6170.1%
- 17RAMA SHANKER NARUANG SHAHIndependent · IND5820.1%
- 18PARAS NATHIndependent · IND4320.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JDflipped
- JD–INC swing
- +81.5%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 62.3%
- INC share
- 41.6% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- 53.8% → 41.3%