# 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 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 | Party |
| 1952 | Raj Narain | Socialist Party |
| 1952 | Sampurnanand | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Sampurnanand | Indian National Congress |
| 1962 | Girdhari Lal | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | Rustom Satin | Communist Party of India |
| 1969 | Sachindra Bakshi | Bharatiya Jana Sangh |
| 1974 | Charan Das Seth | Bharatiya Jana Sangh |
| 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 | Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1993 | Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1996 | Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2002 | Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2007 | Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2012 | Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2017 | Neelkanth Tiwari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2022 | Neelkanth Tiwari | Bharatiya Janata Party |

## 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 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BJP | Neelkanth Tiwari | 99,622 | 50.88% |
| | SP | Kameshwar Nath Dixit | 88,900 | 45.41% |
| | INC | Mudita Kapoor | 2,166 | 1.11% |
| | BSP | Dinesh Kasaudhan | 1,855 | 0.95 |
| | AAP | Ajeet Singh | 922 | 0.47% |
| | AIMIM | Parvez Quadir Khan | 590 | 0.30% |
| | RRP | Shiv Prasad Gupta | 149 | 0.08 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 938 | 0.48 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 10,722 | 5.47 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,95,869 | 60.54 |
| | BJP hold | 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.
U. P. Assembly Election, 2017: Varanasi South :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 17,226 | 9.64 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,78,852 | 63.58 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 2012

U. P. Assembly Election, 2012: Varanasi South :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 13,822 | 9.13 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,51,400 | 55.49 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 2007

U. P. Assembly Election, 2007: Varanasi South :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 13,702 | 19.19 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 71,407 | 31.18 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 2002

U. P. Assembly Election, 2002: Varanasi South :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 20,805 | 25.19 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 82,567 | 30.31 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 1996

U. P. Assembly Election, 1996: Varanasi South :
| Party | 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(ML)L | Amabrish Rai | 532 | 0.55 |
| | Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh | Ajay Shankar | 471 | 0.49 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 37,282 | 38.87 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 95,933 | 35.73 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |