Varanasi South (Assembly constituency)

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
Constituency
District	Varanasi
State	Uttar Pradesh
Electorate	2,81,290 (2017)
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
MLA	Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari
Reservation	None

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.

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