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 No. 389 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Varanasi
Total electors	2,96,592 (2019)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent 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 Assembly

Year	Member[1]	Party
1952	Raj Narain		Socialist Party
	Sampurnanand		Indian National Congress
1957	Sampurnanand
1962	Girdhari Lal
1967	Rustom Satin		Communist Party of India
1969	Sachindra Bakshi		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1974	Charan Das Seth
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
1993
1996
2002
2007
2012
2017	Neelkanth Tiwari
2022

Election results

2022

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari won in 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajvadi Party candidate Kameshwar Nath Dixit alias Kishan by a margin of 10,722 votes.

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Varanasi South^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Neelkanth Tiwari	99,622	50.88	−0.88
	SP	Kameshwar Nath Dixit	88,900	45.41
	INC	Mudita Kapoor	2,166	1.11	−41.01
	BSP	Dinesh Kasaudhan	1,855	0.95	−2.36
	NOTA	None of the above	938	0.48	+0.22
Majority			10,722	5.47	−4.17
Turnout			195,782	60.51	−3.07
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rajesh Mishra by a margin of 17,226 votes.^[3]

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017: Varanasi South^[3]

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
	NOTA	None of the above	457	0.26
Majority			17,226	9.64
Turnout			178,837	63.58
	BJP hold		Swing

2012

U. P. Assembly Election, 2012: Varanasi South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada)	57,868	38.22
	INC	Daya Shankar 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

2007

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

2002

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

1996

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(K)	Mahmood	958	1.00
	CPI(ML)L	Amabrish Rai	532	0.55
	Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh	Ajay Shankar	471	0.49
Majority			37,282	38.87
Turnout			95,933	35.73
	BJP hold		Swing