Varanasi South | |
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Constituency No. 389 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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.
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.
Year | Member [1] | Party | |
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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 |
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 | % | ±% | |
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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 |
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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 |
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