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Bharatiya Janta Party

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

PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Seat recordVaranasi South
Strike rate
75.0%
Won 3 of 4 candidatures
Contested
4
2007–2022
Runner-up
0
Second-place finishes
Best vote share
51.8%
In 2017 · worst 8.6% in 2007
Average share
37.4%
Mean over candidatures with a share
Votes polled here
2.60L
Across all 4 candidatures

[01]Vote share by year

Every contest on this seat · one point per contest
Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Varanasi South, Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 60 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%50%60%8.638.251.851.120022007201220172022Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Varanasi South, Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 60 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%50%60%8.638.251.851.120022007201220172022
  • No candidature2002: the seat held a contest with no candidate under this party name.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. BJP won 3 of 4 candidatures on this seat (75.0%).

    3 ÷ 4 = 75.0%

  2. No candidate stood under this name in 1 of 5 contests on this seat (2002).

    5 contests − 4 with a candidature = 1

  3. Vote share moved from 51.8% in 2017 to 51.1% in 2022, −0.7 pp.

    51.1 − 51.8 = −0.7

  4. Its share ranged from 8.6% (2007) to 51.8% (2017), a spread of 43.2 pp.

    51.8 − 8.6 = 43.2

  5. In the 3 contests it won, its share averaged 47.0%.

    (38.2 + 51.8 + 51.1) ÷ 3 = 47.03

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Other parties on this seat

32 · by best finish

[04]Every candidature

4 rows · most recent first
Bharatiya Janta Party candidatures on Varanasi South, Vidhan Sabha
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2022 Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari 99,622 51.1 1st Won
2017 Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari 92,560 51.8 1st Won
2012 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) 57,868 38.2 1st Won
2007 Sudhir Kumar Baliyan 10,351 8.6 5th 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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