Varanasi South Assembly constituency
| Varanasi South | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 389 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Varanasi |
| Total electors | 2,96,592 (2019) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
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.
| 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]
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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
- ^ "Varanasi North. Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
- ^ 2022
- ^ "List of Candidates in VARANASI SOUTH : VARANASI Uttar Pradesh 2022". myneta.info. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. 25 May 2022.
- ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
External links
- "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.