Name: Varanasi Lok Sabha 1980 result - Uttar Pradesh (1947-1999)
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Winner: KamalapatiINC(I) · INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (I)
Votes: 129,06336.9% share
Margin ?: 24,735over JNP(S)
Turnout ?: 53.7%357,310 of 665,915
NOTA ?: 0

Historical election results Official outcomes as published by the Election Commission of India, compiled by third parties and not verified by VotingBharat.com. Data sources

All candidates, 1980
#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Vote share
1	Kamalapati Winner	INC(I)	129,063	36.91%
2	Raj Narain	JNP(S)	104,328	29.84%
3	Om Prakash	JNP	82,293	23.54%
4	Jagdish Chandra Purve	IND	7,827	2.24%
5	Niyaj Uddin	RPK	3,554	1.02%
6	Nand Lal Singh Kashyap	IND	3,016	0.86%
7	Ram Narain	IND	2,528	0.72%
8	Karuna Nidhan Roy	IND	2,404	0.69%
9	Ram Kailash Singh Bhaduriya	IND	2,184	0.62%
10	Girija Shanker Singh	IND	1,760	0.50%
11	Ahmad Hasan	IND	1,726	0.49%
12	Vijay Narin Misra	IND	1,440	0.41%
13	Nand Lal	IND	1,111	0.32%
14	Kamal Prakash Srivastava	IND	1,104	0.32%
15	Miltan Charan	IND	992	0.28%
16	Ramji	IND	976	0.28%
17	Ram Lakhan Gupta	IND	871	0.25%
18	Lalji	IND	779	0.22%
19	Ram Bali Misra Vyas	RRP	758	0.22%
20	Shambhu Nath Misra	IND	379	0.11%
21	Baij Nath Gupta Jaiswal	IND	295	0.08%
22	Panna Lal Jaiswal	IND	248	0.07%

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Winners as in our results data. Boundaries may have changed between years.

Winning party by year

1999BJPby 52,859
1998BJPby 151,946
1996BJPby 100,692
1991BJPby 40,439
1989JDby 171,603
1984INCby 94,430
1980INC(I)by 24,735
1977BLDby 171,854
1971INCby 85,848
1967CPMby 18,167
1962INCby 45,907
1957INCby 71,926

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