Constituency
242. Varanasi South
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1996
UP-VARANASI-SOUTH
BJP 68.1%won by 38.9%INC 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 38.6% to 38.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 86.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
95,933
Margin
37,282
38.86%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1SHYAM DEV RAI CHAWDHRI (DADA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP65,28868.1%
- 2DEVBRAT MAJUMDARIndian National Congress · INC28,00629.2%
- 3MAHMOODApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD9581.0%
- 4AMABRISH RAICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL5320.6%
- 5AJAY SHANKARABJS · ABJS4710.5%
- 6RAJESHBHJS · BHJS1900.2%
- 7RAKESH KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND1750.2%
- 8NATTHU LAL SONKARIndependent · IND1280.1%
- 9PRAN NATHIndependent · IND1210.1%
- 10RAJEEV KANNOUJIYAIndependent · IND640.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −12.6%
- BJP share
- 62.3% → 68.1%
- INC share
- 10.9% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —