Varanasi South Assembly constituency


nameVaranasi South
mlaDr. Neelkanth Tiwari
partyBharatiya Janata Party
year2022
stateUttar Pradesh
districtVaranasi
reservationNone
electors2,96,592 (2019)

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

yearmemberpolitical party
1951Raj NarainSocialist Party
1951SampurnanandIndian National Congress
1957SampurnanandIndian 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
2022Neelkanth TiwariBharatiya Janata Party

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.

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.