Varanasi North (Assembly constituency)

Varanasi North
Constituency
District	Varanasi
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA	Ravindra Jaiswal
Reservation	None

Varanasi North is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Varanasi North in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Varanasi North is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 388 amongst 403 constituencies.

As of now, this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Ravindra Jaiswal who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Abdul Samad Ansari by a margin of 45,502 votes.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year		Member	Political Party
	1951	Sheikh Abdul Samad	Indian National Congress
	1951	Lal Bahadur Singh	Indian National Congress
	1957	Abdus Samad	Indian National Congress
	1962	Vishwanath Prasad	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
	1967	Vishwanath Prasad	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
	1969	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
	1974	Shafiur Rahman Ansari	Indian National Congress
	1977	Mushtaq Ahmad	Janata Party
	1980	Shafiur Rahman Ansari	Indian National Congress (I)
	1985	Shafiur Rahman Ansari	Indian National Congress
	1989	Amarnath Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1991	Amarnath Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1993	Amarnath Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1996	Abdul Kalam	Samajwadi Party
	2002	Abdul Kalam	Samajwadi Party
	2005	Rabiya Kalam	Samajwadi Party
	2007	Abdul Samad Ansari	Samajwadi Party
	2012	Ravindra Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2017	Ravindra Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Varanasi North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ravindra Jaiswal	1,16,017	50.95
	INC	Abdul Samad Ansari	70,515	30.97
	BSP	Sujeet Kumar Maurya	32,574	14.30
	Independent	Sujeet Singh Teeka	1,957	0.86
	Independent	Dr. Ashok Kumar Singh	1,075	0.47
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,115	0.49
Majority			45,502	19.98
Turnout			2,27,796	59.23
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Varanasi North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ravindra Jaiswal	47,980	26.49
	BSP	Sujeet Kumar Maurya	45,644	25.20
	SP	Abdul Samad Ansari	37,434	20.67
	INC	Rabiya Kalam	31,029	17.13
	QED	Ravikant Singh	4,709	2.60
Majority			2,336	1.29
Turnout			1,81,126	52.24
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007: Varanasi North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Haji Abdul Samad Ansari	26,544	29.85
	BJP	Dr. Shivnath Yadav	24,345	27.37
	Independent	Rabiya Kalam	17,652	19.85
	BSP	Vijay Prakash Gupta	7,349	8.26
	INC	Sheikh Mohammad Shamim	4,068	4.57
Majority			2,199	2.48
Turnout			88,919	31.86
	SP hold		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly By Election, 2005: Varanasi North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Rabiya Kalam	48,862	51.43
	BJP	Ravindra Jaiswal	32,864	34.59
	INC	Dr. Wakil Ahmed Ansari	9,207	9.69
	BSP	Kunwar Pramod Singh	1,953	2.05
	AD	Mohammad Rafique Ansari	588	0.61
Majority			15,998	16.84
Turnout			95,005	32.80
	SP hold		Swing