Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Varanasi Cantt.

Assembly constituency 390 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Saurabh Srivastava · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

14.9pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

86,844votes

35.8 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

52.8%

Seat median 52.8% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 35.8 pp

2002
8.5 pp
YashwantRashtriya Lok Dalby 9,318 votes
2007
14.9 pp
YashwantBahujan Samaj Partyby 17,173 votes
2012
7.1 pp
Jyotsana SrivastavaBharatiya Janata Partyby 12,852 votes
2017
27.0 pp
Saurabh SrivastavaBharatiya Janata Partyby 61,326 votes
2022
35.8 pp
Saurabh SrivastavaBharatiya Janata Partyby 86,844 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 41 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 475% won · 1 second BSP 1 of 520% won RLD 1 of 250% won IND 0 of 230% won INC 0 of 50% won · 2 second SP 0 of 40% won · 2 second LJP 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 7.1 pp; the widest 2022 at 35.8 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 35.8 pp was 20.9 pp above the seat's median of 14.9 pp.
35.8 − 14.9 = +20.9
Turnout moved from 53.9% in 2002 to 52.8% in 2022, −1.1 pp.
52.8 − 53.9 = −1.1
The name Saurabh Srivastava appears as winner in 2 contests: 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, 52.8%

2002 53.9%

2007 49.6%

2012 51.7%

2017 55.0%

2022 52.8%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Varanasi Cantt., Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Saurabh Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party	86,844	35.8	52.8
2017	Saurabh Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party	61,326	27.0	55.0
2012	Jyotsana Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party	12,852	7.1	51.7
2007	Yashwant	Bahujan Samaj Party	17,173	14.9	49.6
2002	Yashwant	Rashtriya Lok Dal	9,318	8.5	53.9

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 86,844 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Varanasi Cantt., 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