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Varanasi South

Assembly constituency 389 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022
Held by
BJP
Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari · 2022
Contests
5
2002–2022
Distinct winners
4
Across 5 contests
Winning parties
3
Across all 5 contests
Longest run
3in a row
BJP · 2012–2022
Top win share
51.9%
Rajpal Singh Baliyan · 2002

[01]Winning vote share

Oldest first · white mark: half the votes
2002 51.9%RLD
2007 31.7%BSP
2012 38.2%BJP
2017 51.8%BJP
2022 51.1%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. Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari won 2 contests, in 2017 and 2022.

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

  4. Winning shares ran from 31.7% in 2007 to 51.9% 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 51.1%, −0.7 pp on the 2017 winner's 51.8%.

    51.1 − 51.8 = −0.7

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

[04]Winners by name

4 names
  1. 01 Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari 2wins 2022 BJP · 2017 BJP
  2. 02 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) 1win 2012 BJP
  3. 03 Yograj Singh 1win 2007 BSP
  4. 04 Rajpal Singh Baliyan 1win 2002 RLD

[05]Every winner

5 rows · most recent first
Every Vidhan Sabha winner on record for Varanasi South, Uttar Pradesh
Year Winner Party Votes Vote %
2022 Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party 99,622 51.1%
2017 Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party 92,560 51.8%
2012 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) Bharatiya Janata Party 57,868 38.2%
2007 Yograj Singh Bahujan Samaj Party 38,205 31.7%
2002 Rajpal Singh Baliyan Rashtriya Lok Dal 70,705 51.9%
Bar: vote share on a 0–100% scale

WinnersElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Varanasi South, 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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