About Varanasi South Assembly Constituency

Varanasi South is constituency No. 389 of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly. It is situated in Varanasi district and comes under the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, this constituency has 2,72,845 registered voters. It comprises 1,51,589 male and 1,21,256 female registered voters.

The BJP won this constituency in the last Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections held in 2012. Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari, the winning BJP candidate, got 57,868 votes. Dayashankar Mishra of Congress, the nearest contender, got 44,046 votes and lost by 13,822 votes. The voter turnout was 55.49 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Varanasi South Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Varanasi South assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2017	389	Varanasi South	GEN	Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari	M	BJP	92560	Rajesh Mishra	M	INC	75334
2012	389	Varanasi South	GEN	Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada)	M	BJP	57868	Dr. Dayashankar Mishra (Dayalu)	M	INC	44046
2007	226	Varanasi South	GEN	Shyam Deo Roy Chaudhary Dada	M	BJP	33021	Dr. Dayashankar Misra Dayalu	M	INC	19319
2002	226	Varanasi South	GEN	Shyam Dew Rai Chaudhari (Dada)	M	BJP	43458	Rakesh Jain	M	SP	22653
1996	242	Varanasi South	GEN	Shyam Dev Rai Chawdhri (Dada)	M	BJP	65288	Devbrat Majumdar	M	INC	28006
1993	242	Varanasi South	GEN	Shyam Dev Rai Chaudhari (Dada)	M	BJP	63726	Dilip Dev	M	SP	24221
1991	242	Varanasi South	GEN	Shyam Dev Rai Chaudhary (Dada)	M	BJP	57829	Vijay Dube	M	JD	13662
1989	242	Varanasi South	GEN	Shyam Dev Rai Choudhary (Dada)	M	BJP	39529	Rajni Kant Dutta	M	INC	17789
1985	242	Varanasi South	GEN	Rajni Kant	M	INC	28400	Shyamdeo Ram Chaudhary	M	BJP	13639
1980	242	Varanasi South	GEN	Kailash Tondon	M	INC(I)	19048	Raj Bali Tiwari	M	BJP	13297
1977	242	Varanasi South	GEN	Raj Bali Tiwari	M	JNP	36016	Raj Kumar	M	INC	13283
1974	242	Varanasi South	GEN	Charan Das Seth	M	BJS	19826	Girijesh Rai	M	CPI	13431
1969	248	Varanasi South	GEN	Sachindra Nath Bakshi	M	BJS	20896	Rustam Satin	M	CPI	20059
1967	248	Varanasi South	GEN	R.Satin	M	CPI	24983	G.A.Tondpy	M	BJS	16011
1962	263	Varanasi City South	GEN	Girdhari Lal	M	INC	20244	Satin Rustam	M	CPI	16150
1957	189	Varanasi City South	GEN	Sampurnanand Ji	M	INC	29002	Rustam Satin	M	CPI	16578
1951	259	Banaras City South	GEN	Sampurnanand Ji	M	INC	12170	Satin Rustam	M	CPI	7847
1951	262	Banaras South	GEN	Raj Narain	M	SP	13164	Rishi Narain	M	INC	13031