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Bahujan Samaj Party

On Varanasi South · Assembly constituency 389 · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests on this seat

PartyBahujan Samaj Party
Seat recordVaranasi South
Strike rate
20.0%
Won 1 of 5 candidatures
Contested
5
2002–2022
Runner-up
0
Second-place finishes
Best vote share
31.7%
In 2007 · worst 1.0% in 2022
Average share
10.7%
Mean over candidatures with a share
Votes polled here
70,518
Across all 5 candidatures

[01]Vote share by year

Every contest on this seat · one point per contest
Line chart: Bahujan Samaj Party vote share in Varanasi South, Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 40 per cent. Contests without a value for this party are gaps, not zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%11.531.75.83.31.020022007201220172022Line chart: Bahujan Samaj Party vote share in Varanasi South, Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 40 per cent. Contests without a value for this party are gaps, not zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%11.531.75.83.31.020022007201220172022

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. BSP won 1 of 5 candidatures on this seat (20.0%).

    1 ÷ 5 = 20.0%

  2. Vote share moved from 3.3% in 2017 to 1.0% in 2022, −2.3 pp.

    1.0 − 3.3 = −2.3

  3. Its share ranged from 1.0% (2022) to 31.7% (2007), a spread of 30.7 pp.

    31.7 − 1.0 = 30.7

  4. In its winning year, 2007, it polled 31.7%.

    2007: 31.7%

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Other parties on this seat

32 · by best finish

[04]Every candidature

5 rows · most recent first
Bahujan Samaj Party candidatures on Varanasi South, Vidhan Sabha
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2022 Dinesh Kasaudhan 1,855 1.0 4th Lost
2017 Rakesh Tripathi 5,922 3.3 3rd Lost
2012 Kaisar Ameen Ansari 8,841 5.8 5th Lost
2007 Yograj Singh 38,205 31.7 1st Won
2002 Akram Khan 15,695 11.5 3rd Lost
Highlighted rows: contests this party won

CandidaturesElection Commission of India, candidate-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Varanasi South, Uttar Pradesh · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

RecordWon, runner-up and vote-share figures counted from the same candidate lines · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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