Varanasi South (Assembly constituency)

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Varanasi South
Constituency details
Country India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Varanasi
Total electors2,96,592 (2019)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari
Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2017

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.

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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

YearMemberPolitical Party
1951 Raj Narain Socialist Party
1951 Sampurnanand Indian National Congress
1957 Sampurnanand Indian National Congress
1962Girdhari Lal Indian National Congress
1967Rustam Satin Communist Party of India
1969 Sachindra Nath Bakshi Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1974Charan Das Seth Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977Raj Bali Tiwari Janata Party
1980Kailash Tandon Indian National Congress (I)
1985Rajni Kant Dutta Indian National Congress
1989 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari Bharatiya Janata Party
1991 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari Bharatiya Janata Party
1993 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari Bharatiya Janata Party
1996 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari Bharatiya Janata Party
2002 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari Bharatiya Janata Party
2007 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari Bharatiya Janata Party
2012 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari Bharatiya Janata Party
2017 Neelkanth Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party
2022 Neelkanth Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2022

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

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election:
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Neelkanth Tiwari 99,62250.88%
SP Kameshwar Nath Dixit 88,90045.41%
INC Mudita Kapoor 2,1661.11%
BSP Dinesh Kasaudhan 1,8550.95
AAP Ajeet Singh [1] 9220.47%
AIMIM Parvez Quadir Khan 5900.30%
NOTA None of the Above 9380.48
Majority10,7225.47
Turnout 230,05059.13
BJP hold Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rajesh Mishra by a margin of 17,226 votes. [2]

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017: Varanasi South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari 92,56051.76
INC Rajesh Kumar Mishra 75,33442.12
BSP Rakesh Tripathi5,9223.31
IND. Satish Kumar Agrahari8440.47
IND. Rubi Fatma7990.45
NOTA None of the Above 4570.26
Majority17,2269.64
Turnout 1,78,85263.58
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 2012: Varanasi South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada)57,86838.22
INC Daya Shankar Mishra (Dayalu)44,04629.09
QED Atahar Jamal Lari20,45413.51
SP Mohammad Istaqbal (Babu)14,6429.67
BSP Kaisar Ameen Ansari8,8415.84
Majority13,8229.13
Turnout 1,51,40055.49
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 2007: Varanasi South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada)33,02146.24
INC Dr. Dayashankar Mishra (Dayalu)19,31927.05
SP Dilip Kumar Day11,95616.74
BSP Vikram Vij (Vikki Punjabi)4,4006.16
IND. Sankata Prasad Pandey (Bumguru)5900.82
Majority13,70219.19
Turnout 71,40731.18
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 2002: Varanasi South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada)43,45852.63
SP Rakesh Jain22,65327.44
INC Mani Shankar Pandey11,70514.18
BSP Engineer Asalam Perwaze2,0802.52
RTKP Vijay8371.01
Majority20,80525.19
Turnout 82,56730.31
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 1996: Varanasi South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada)65,28868.06
INC Devbrat Majumdar28,00629.19
AD Mahmood9581.00
CPI(ML)L Amabrish Rai5320.55
ABJS Ajay Shankar4710.49
Majority37,28238.87
Turnout 95,93335.73
BJP hold Swing

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References

  1. ↑ "List of Candidates in VARANASI SOUTH : VARANASI Uttar Pradesh 2022". myneta.info. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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