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

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
1951Raj NarainSocialist Party
1951Sampurnanand JiIndian National Congress
1957Sampurnanand JiIndian National Congress
1962Girdhari LalIndian National Congress
1967Rustam SatinCommunist Party of India
1969Sachindra Nath BakshiBharatiya Jana Sangh
1974Charan Das SethBharatiya Jana Sangh
1977Raj Bali TiwariJanata Party
1980Kailash TandonIndian National Congress (I)
1985Rajni Kant DuttaIndian National Congress
1989Shyamdev Roy ChaudhariBharatiya Janata Party
1991Shyamdev Roy ChaudhariBharatiya Janata Party
1993Shyamdev Roy ChaudhariBharatiya Janata Party
1996Shyamdev Roy ChaudhariBharatiya Janata Party
2002Shyamdev Roy ChaudhariBharatiya Janata Party
2007Shyamdev Roy ChaudhariBharatiya Janata Party
2012Shyamdev Roy ChaudhariBharatiya Janata Party
2017Neelkanth TiwariBharatiya 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 1,78,837 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
QED 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
RTKP 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
CPI (M-L) Liberation Amabrish Rai 532 0.55
ABJS 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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