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Varanasi North

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

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022
Held by
BJP
Ravindra Jaiswal · 2022
Contests
5
2002–2022
Distinct winners
3
Across 5 contests
Winning parties
3
Across all 5 contests
Longest run
3in a row
BJP · 2012–2022
Top win share
58.1%
Virendra Singh · 2002

[01]Winning vote share

Oldest first · white mark: half the votes
2002 58.1%RLD
2007 42.8%BSP
2012 26.5%BJP
2017 51.0%BJP
2022 55.0%BJP

[02]Wins by party

5 contests
  1. 01 Bharatiya Janta PartyBharatiya Janata Party 3of 5 2022, 2017, 2012
  2. 02 Bahujan Samaj PartyBahujan Samaj Party 1of 5 2007
  3. 03 Rashtriya Lok DalRashtriya Lok Dal 1of 5 2002

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. BJP won 3 of 5 contests (60.0%).

    wins by party: BJP 3 · BSP 1 · RLD 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%

  2. The holding party kept the seat in 2 of 4 successive contests.

    2002 RLD → 2007 BSP → 2012 BJP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP

  3. Ravindra Jaiswal won 3 contests, in 2012, 2017 and 2022.

    names matched ignoring spacing and punctuation · 2012 BJP · 2017 BJP · 2022 BJP

  4. Winning shares ran from 26.5% in 2012 to 58.1% in 2002.

    min / max of vote % over 5 winners

  5. 2 of 5 winners polled less than half the votes.

    count(vote % < 50) = 2 of 5

  6. The 2022 winner polled 55.0%, +4.0 pp on the 2017 winner's 51.0%.

    55.0 − 51.0 = +4.0

Each line is arithmetic over the winning rows on this page.

[04]Winners by name

3 names
  1. 01 Ravindra Jaiswal 3wins 2022 BJP · 2017 BJP · 2012 BJP
  2. 02 Balveer 1win 2007 BSP
  3. 03 Virendra Singh 1win 2002 RLD

[05]Every winner

5 rows · most recent first
Every Vidhan Sabha winner on record for Varanasi North, Uttar Pradesh
Year Winner Party Votes Vote %
2022 Ravindra Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party 1,34,471 55.0%
2017 Ravindra Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party 1,16,017 51.0%
2012 Ravindra Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party 47,980 26.5%
2007 Balveer Bahujan Samaj Party 52,725 42.8%
2002 Virendra Singh Rashtriya Lok Dal 74,474 58.1%
Bar: vote share on a 0–100% scale

WinnersElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Varanasi North, Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022 · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Counts, runs, sharesComputed from the winning rows on this page when the page was built

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