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| Varanasi South | |
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| 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 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.
Members of Legislative Assembly[edit]
| 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 results[edit]
2022[edit]
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 | ||||
2017[edit]
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 | ||||
References[edit]
- ↑ "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 links[edit]
- "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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