Constituency
447. Varanasi
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-VARANASI
BJP 41.1%won by 8.9%CPM 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 41.1% of the vote here (+41.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.3% between them, down from 84.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,46,984
Turnout
43.3%
Valid votes
4,53,402
Margin
40,439
8.92%
Candidates
24 contested · winner BJP- 1SHEESH CHANDRA DIXITBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,86,33341.1%
- 2RAJ KISHORECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,45,89432.2%
- 3LOK PATI TRIPATHIIndian National Congress · INC57,41512.7%
- 4KASHI NATH YADAVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP32,8617.2%
- 5SHIV DEVNARAIN ROYJanahitha Paksha · JP10,1902.2%
- 6BHAI RAMIndependent · IND2,6570.6%
- 7MOHAN SWARUP VERMAIndependent · IND2,6240.6%
- 8RAM HARANIndependent · IND2,5900.6%
- 9GULABIndependent · IND2,2590.5%
- 10VINODIndependent · IND1,6830.4%
- 11RAJNATHLKD · LKD1,3220.3%
- 12PUSHKAR NARAIYANIndependent · IND1,3010.3%
- 13KISHUNIndependent · IND1,0950.2%
- 14RAM MURATDDP · DDP9120.2%
- 15RAMBALI MISHRA VYASIndependent · IND7630.2%
- 16MOHAN LAL TIWARIIndependent · IND5880.1%
- 17RAM NIHOREIndependent · IND5650.1%
- 18ASLAM ALIAS MACHHANNIIndependent · IND5320.1%
- 19AMAR NATH GUPTAIndependent · IND4340.1%
- 20UTTAM KUMAR KEDIYAUPRP · UPRP3880.1%
- 21RAM PRAKASH PARASHARIndependent · IND3420.1%
- 22BHABANI SHANKARIndependent · IND3240.1%
- 23RAMESH CHANDRA KUSHWAHAIndependent · IND1660.0%
- 24RAMASHANKARIndependent · IND1640.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–CPM swing
- +8.9%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 41.3% → 43.3%