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468. Varanasi

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Uttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-VARANASI

BJP 33.9%won by 8.5%INC 25.5%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.6% to 8.5%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Indian National Congress (INC).
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 2.1% to 44.4%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
14,07,844
Turnout
44.4%
Valid votes
6,24,357
Margin
52,859
8.47%

Candidates

12 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Shankar Prasad JaiswalBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,11,95533.9%
  2. 2Rajesh Kumar MishraIndian National Congress · INC1,59,09625.5%
  3. 3Niranjan RajbharApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD83,28213.3%
  4. 4Salman BasharSamajwadi Party · SP78,44212.6%
  5. 5Babu Lal PatelBahujan Samaj Party · BSP75,05912.0%
  6. 6Prof. Dipak MalikCommunist Party of India · CPI7,8291.3%
  7. 7RajpatPMSP · PMSP2,3410.4%
  8. 8Vijay Kumar Verma KushwahaSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD1,9800.3%
  9. 9Rana Shah JaiswalABBP · ABBP1,6340.3%
  10. 10Anand KumarIndependent · IND1,2530.2%
  11. 11Uma Shankar SharmaAJBP · AJBP7570.1%
  12. 12Arvind Kumar TripathiShiv Sena · SHS7290.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
−24.6%
BJP share
43.0% → 33.9%
INC share
9.9% → 25.5%
Turnout
46.5% → 44.4%
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