Varanasi North Assembly constituency

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.^[1]

Varanasi North
Constituency No. 388 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Varanasi
Total electors	4,04,345 (2019)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ravindra Jaiswal
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2022

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

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Sheikh Abdul Samad		Indian National Congress
	Lal Bahadur Singh
1957	Sheikh Abdul Samad
1962	Vishwanath Prasad		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1967
1969	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal
1974	Shafiur Rahman Ansari		Indian National Congress
1977	Mushtaq Ahmad		Janata Party
1980	Shafiur Rahman Ansari		Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Amarnath Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996	Abdul Kalam		Samajwadi Party
2002
2005^	Rabiya Begum
2007	Abdul Samad Ansari
2012	Ravindra Jaiswal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2017
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Varanasi North^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ravindra Jaiswal	134,471	54.61	+3.66
	SP	Ashfaque Ahmed	93,695	38.05
	BSP	Shyam Prakash	10,457	4.25	−10.06
	INC	Gulerana Sabassum	3,102	1.26	−29.71
	NOTA	None of the above	1,532	0.62	+0.13
Majority			40,776	16.56	−3.42
Turnout			246,225	57.65	−1.55
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

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

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Varanasi North^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ravindra Jaiswal	116,017	50.95
	INC	Abdul Samad Ansari	70,515	30.97
	BSP	Sujeet Kumar Maurya	32,574	14.31
	NOTA	None of the above	1,115	0.49
Majority			45,502	19.98
Turnout			227,695	59.2
	BJP hold		Swing

2012

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

2007

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(K)	Mohammad Rafique Ansari	588	0.61
Majority			15,998	16.84
Turnout			95,005	32.80
	SP hold		Swing