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'''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 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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|| 1951 || [[Raj Narain]] || [[Socialist Party]]
|| 1951 || [[Raj Narain]] || [[Socialist Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|| 1951 || [[Sampurnanand|Sampurnanand Ji]] || [[Indian National Congress]]
|| 1951 || [[Sampurnanand|Sampurnanand Ji]] || [[Indian National Congress]]
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|style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|| 1957 || [[Sampurnanand|Sampurnanand Ji]] || [[Indian National Congress]]
|| 1957 || [[Sampurnanand|Sampurnanand Ji]] || [[Indian National Congress]]
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|style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|| 1962 || Girdhari Lal || [[Indian National Congress]]
|| 1962 || Girdhari Lal || [[Indian National Congress]]
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|style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
|| 1967 || Rustam Satin || [[Communist Party of India]]
|| 1967 || Rustam Satin || [[Communist Party of India]]
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|-
|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Jana Sangh/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}" |
|| 1969 || [[Sachindra Nath Bakshi]] || [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
|| 1969 || [[Sachindra Nath Bakshi]] || [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
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|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Jana Sangh/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}" |
|| 1974 || Charan Das Seth || [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
|| 1974 || Charan Das Seth || [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
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|style="background-color: {{Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|| 1977 || Raj Bali Tiwari || [[Janata Party]]
|| 1977 || Raj Bali Tiwari || [[Janata Party]]
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|-
|style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|| 1980 || Kailash Tandon || [[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|| 1980 || Kailash Tandon || [[Indian National Congress (I)]]
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|style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|| 1985 || Rajni Kant Dutta || [[Indian National Congress]]
|| 1985 || Rajni Kant Dutta || [[Indian National Congress]]
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|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 1989 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 1989 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 1991 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 1991 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 1993 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 1993 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 1996 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 1996 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|-
|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 2002 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 2002 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|-
|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 2007 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 2007 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|-
|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 2012 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 2012 || [[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
|-
|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 2017 || [[Neelkanth Tiwari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 2017 || [[Neelkanth Tiwari]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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Revision as of 17:18, 8 December 2021

Varanasi South
Constituency
DistrictVaranasi
StateUttar Pradesh
Electorate2,81,290 (2017)
Current constituency
Created2017
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
MLADr. Neelkanth Tiwari
ReservationNone

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.

As of now, this seat belongs to 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.[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Member Political Party
1951 Raj Narain Socialist Party
1951 Sampurnanand Ji Indian National Congress
1957 Sampurnanand Ji Indian National Congress
1962 Girdhari Lal Indian National Congress
1967 Rustam Satin Communist Party of India
1969 Sachindra Nath Bakshi Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1974 Charan Das Seth Bharatiya Jana Sangh
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 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

Election results

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
U. P. Assembly Election, 2012: Varanasi South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) 57,868 38.22
INC Dr. Dayashankar Mishra (Dayalu) 44,046 29.09
[[Quami Ekta Dal|Template:Quami Ekta Dal/meta/shortname]] 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
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
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
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Kranti Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[Rashtriya Kranti Party|Template:Rashtriya Kranti Party/meta/shortname]] Vijay 837 1.01
Majority 20,805 25.19
Turnout 82,567 30.31
BJP hold Swing
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
[[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)|Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)/meta/shortname]] Amabrish Rai 532 0.55
style="background-color: Template:Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh|Template:Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh/meta/shortname]] Ajay Shankar 471 0.49
Majority 37,282 38.87
Turnout 95,933 35.73
BJP hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.


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