Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Varanasi North

Assembly constituency 388 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Ravindra Jaiswal · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

16.7pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

40,776votes

16.7 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

57.0%

Seat median 57.0% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 26.4 pp

2002
26.4 pp
Virendra SinghRashtriya Lok Dalby 33,880 votes
2007
15.2 pp
BalveerBahujan Samaj Partyby 18,776 votes
2012
1.3 pp
Ravindra JaiswalBharatiya Janata Partyby 2,336 votes
2017
20.1 pp
Ravindra JaiswalBharatiya Janata Partyby 45,502 votes
2022
16.7 pp
Ravindra JaiswalBharatiya Janata Partyby 40,776 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 33 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 475% won BSP 1 of 520% won · 1 second RLD 1 of 333.3% won · 1 second IND 0 of 270% won INC 0 of 50% won · 1 second SP 0 of 40% won · 2 second LKD 0 of 20% won AAP 0 of 10% won

Won of candidatures, counted from the published candidate lines; independents are counted together.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP won 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: BJP 3 · BSP 1 · RLD 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 RLD → 2007 BSP → 2012 BJP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2012 at 1.3 pp; the widest 2002 at 26.4 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 16.7 pp equals the seat's median.
16.7 − 16.7 = 0.0
Turnout moved from 57.9% in 2002 to 57.0% in 2022, −0.9 pp.
57.0 − 57.9 = −0.9
The name Ravindra Jaiswal appears as winner in 3 contests: 2012, 2017 and 2022.
winner names matched across years, ignoring spacing and punctuation

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 57.0%

2002 57.9%

2007 50.4%

2012 52.2%

2017 58.9%

2022 57.0%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Varanasi North, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Ravindra Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party	40,776	16.7	57.0
2017	Ravindra Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party	45,502	20.1	58.9
2012	Ravindra Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,336	1.3	52.2
2007	Balveer	Bahujan Samaj Party	18,776	15.2	50.4
2002	Virendra Singh	Rashtriya Lok Dal	33,880	26.4	57.9

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 45,502 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Varanasi North, Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Party recordCounted from the published candidate lines for this seat · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Medians and countsComputed from the contests on this page when the page was built