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Varanasi Cantt.

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

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022
Held by
BJP
Saurabh Srivastava · 2022
Contests
5
2002–2022
Distinct winners
3
Across 5 contests
Winning parties
3
Across all 5 contests
Longest run
3in a row
BJP · 2012–2022
Top win share
61.0%
Saurabh Srivastava · 2022

[01]Winning vote share

Oldest first · white mark: half the votes
2002 33.1%RLD
2007 37.9%BSP
2012 32.1%BJP
2017 58.3%BJP
2022 61.0%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. Saurabh Srivastava won 2 contests, in 2017 and 2022.

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

  4. Winning shares ran from 32.1% in 2012 to 61.0% in 2022.

    min / max of vote % over 5 winners

  5. 3 of 5 winners polled less than half the votes.

    count(vote % < 50) = 3 of 5

  6. The 2022 winner polled 61.0%, +2.7 pp on the 2017 winner's 58.3%.

    61.0 − 58.3 = +2.7

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

[04]Winners by name

3 names
  1. 01 Saurabh Srivastava 2wins 2022 BJP · 2017 BJP
  2. 02 Yashwant 2wins 2007 BSP · 2002 RLD
  3. 03 Jyotsana Srivastava 1win 2012 BJP

[05]Every winner

5 rows · most recent first
Every Vidhan Sabha winner on record for Varanasi Cantt., Uttar Pradesh
Year Winner Party Votes Vote %
2022 Saurabh Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party 1,47,833 61.0%
2017 Saurabh Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party 1,32,609 58.3%
2012 Jyotsana Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party 57,918 32.1%
2007 Yashwant Bahujan Samaj Party 43,623 37.9%
2002 Yashwant Rashtriya Lok Dal 36,416 33.1%
Bar: vote share on a 0–100% scale

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