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Bharatiya Janta Party

On Varanasi Cantt. · Assembly constituency 390 · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests on this seat

PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Seat recordVaranasi Cantt.
Strike rate
75.0%
Won 3 of 4 candidatures
Contested
4
2007–2022
Runner-up
1
Second-place finish
Best vote share
61.0%
In 2022 · worst 23.0% in 2007
Average share
43.6%
Mean over candidatures with a share
Votes polled here
3.65L
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 Cantt., Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 70 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%70%23.032.158.361.020022007201220172022Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Varanasi Cantt., Vidhan Sabha, 2002 to 2022. Vertical axis 0 to 70 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%70%23.032.158.361.020022007201220172022
  • 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 58.3% in 2017 to 61.0% in 2022, +2.7 pp.

    61.0 − 58.3 = +2.7
  4. Its share ranged from 23.0% (2007) to 61.0% (2022), a spread of 38.0 pp.

    61.0 − 23.0 = 38.0
  5. In the 3 contests it won, its share averaged 50.5%.

    (32.1 + 58.3 + 61.0) ÷ 3 = 50.47

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Other parties on this seat

41 · by best finish

[04]Every candidature

4 rows · most recent first
Bharatiya Janta Party candidatures on Varanasi Cantt., Vidhan Sabha
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2022 Saurabh Srivastava 1,47,833 61.0 1st Won
2017 Saurabh Srivastava 1,32,609 58.3 1st Won
2012 Jyotsana Srivastava 57,918 32.1 1st Won
2007 Prakash Chand Raja 26,450 23.0 2nd Lost
Highlighted rows: contests this party won

CandidaturesElection Commission of India, candidate-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Varanasi Cantt., 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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