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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 | |
|---|---|
| Constituency Details | |
| Country | India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Varanasi |
| Total electors | 2,96,592 (2019) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| Current MLA | Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
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.
Members of Legislative AssemblyEdit
| Year | Member | Political Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Raj Narain | Socialist Party | |
| 1951 | Sampurnanand | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Sampurnanand | 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 | |
| 2022 | Neelkanth Tiwari | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
Election resultsEdit
2022Edit
Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari who won in 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Samajvadi Party candidate Kameshwar Nath Dixit alias Kishan by a margin of 10,722 votes.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 [1] | 922 | 0.47% | ||
| AIMIM | Parvez Quadir Khan | 590 | 0.30% | ||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 938 | 0.48 | ||
| Majority | 10,722 | 5.47 | |||
| Turnout | 1,95,869 | 60.54 | |||
| [[BJP|Template:BJP/meta/shortname]] hold | Swing | ||||
2017Edit
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.[2]
| 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 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada) | 57,868 | 38.22 | ||
| INC | Daya Shankar 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "List of Candidates in VARANASI SOUTH : VARANASI Uttar Pradesh 2022". myneta.info. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ↑ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
External linksEdit
- "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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