Varanasi South Assembly constituency

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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 electors2,96,592 (2019)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Bharatiya 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.

Contents

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.

Overview

The constituency has a preponderance of voters belonging to Kayastha and Brahmin caste. The Bengali stand second only to the twin caste of Kayastha-Brahmin in population, in this constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly

YearMember [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]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Neelkanth Tiwari 99,622 50.88%
SP Kameshwar Nath Dixit 88,90045.41%
INC Mudita Kapoor 2,1661.11%
BSP Dinesh Kasaudhan 1,8550.95
AAP Ajeet Singh 9220.47%
AIMIM Parvez Quadir Khan 5900.30%
RRP Shiv Prasad Gupta1490.08
NOTA None of the Above 9380.48
Majority10,7225.47
Turnout 1,95,86960.54
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
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

2012

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

2007

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

2002

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

1996

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
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh Ajay Shankar4710.49
Majority37,28238.87
Turnout 95,93335.73
BJP hold Swing

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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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