Varanasi South (Assembly constituency)
Election results

Varanasi South (Assembly constituency)

Section Title: Election results
Table Section Text: None

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

Sentence(s)

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari won in Legislative Elections by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rajesh Mishra by a margin of 17,226 votes.

final_sentence: Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari won in Legislative Elections by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rajesh Mishra by a margin of 17,226 votes.