Varanasi South Assembly constituency

Varanasi South
Constituency No. 389 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictVaranasi
Total electors2,96,592 (2019)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2022

Varanasi South is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Varanasi South in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Varanasi South is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 389 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Member[1] Party
1952 Raj Narain Socialist Party
Sampurnanand Indian National Congress
1957 Sampurnanand
1962 Girdhari Lal
1967 Rustom Satin Communist Party of India
1969 Sachindra Bakshi Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1974 Charan Das Seth
1977 Raj Bali Tiwari Janata Party
1980 Kailash Tandon Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Rajni Kant Dutta Indian National Congress
1989 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996
2002
2007
2012
2017 Neelkanth Tiwari
2022

Election results

2022

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari won in 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajvadi Party candidate Kameshwar Nath Dixit alias Kishan by a margin of 10,722 votes.

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Varanasi South [2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Neelkanth Tiwari 99,622 50.88%
SP Kameshwar Nath Dixit 88,900 45.41%
INC Mudita Kapoor 2,166 1.11%
BSP Dinesh Kasaudhan 1,855 0.95
AAP Ajeet Singh 922 0.47%
AIMIM Parvez Quadir Khan 590 0.30%
RRP Shiv Prasad Gupta 149 0.08
NOTA None of the Above 938 0.48
Majority 10,722 5.47
Turnout 1,95,869 60.54
BJP hold Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rajesh Mishra by a margin of 17,226 votes.[5]

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017: Varanasi South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari 92,560 51.76
INC Rajesh Kumar Mishra 75,334 42.12
BSP Rakesh Tripathi 5,922 3.31
IND. Satish Kumar Agrahari 844 0.47
IND. Rubi Fatma 799 0.45
NOTA None of the Above 457 0.26
Majority 17,226 9.64
Turnout 1,78,852 63.58
BJP hold Swing

2012

U. P. Assembly Election, 2012: Varanasi South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) 57,868 38.22
INC Daya Shankar Mishra (Dayalu) 44,046 29.09
QED Atahar Jamal Lari 20,454 13.51
SP Mohammad Istaqbal (Babu) 14,642 9.67
BSP Kaisar Ameen Ansari 8,841 5.84
Majority 13,822 9.13
Turnout 1,51,400 55.49
BJP hold Swing

2007

U. P. Assembly Election, 2007: Varanasi South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) 33,021 46.24
INC Dr. Dayashankar Mishra (Dayalu) 19,319 27.05
SP Dilip Kumar Day 11,956 16.74
BSP Vikram Vij (Vikki Punjabi) 4,400 6.16
IND. Sankata Prasad Pandey (Bumguru) 590 0.82
Majority 13,702 19.19
Turnout 71,407 31.18
BJP hold Swing

2002

U. P. Assembly Election, 2002: Varanasi South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) 43,458 52.63
SP Rakesh Jain 22,653 27.44
INC Mani Shankar Pandey 11,705 14.18
BSP Engineer Asalam Perwaze 2,080 2.52
RTKP Vijay 837 1.01
Majority 20,805 25.19
Turnout 82,567 30.31
BJP hold Swing

1996

U. P. Assembly Election, 1996: Varanasi South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) 65,288 68.06
INC Devbrat Majumdar 28,006 29.19
AD Mahmood 958 1.00
CPI(ML)L Amabrish Rai 532 0.55
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh Ajay Shankar 471 0.49
Majority 37,282 38.87
Turnout 95,933 35.73
BJP hold Swing

References

  1. ^ "Varanasi North. Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  2. ^ 2022
  3. ^ "List of Candidates in VARANASI SOUTH : VARANASI Uttar Pradesh 2022". myneta.info. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 25 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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