Seat record · Vidhan Sabha

Varanasi South

Assembly constituency 389 (GEN) · Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests, 2002–2022

State boardUttar Pradesh 2022

Held by

BJP

Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari · 2022

Contests

2002–2022

Parties that won

Across all 5 contests

Median margin

9.7pp

Over all 5 contests

Margin 2022

10,722votes

5.5 pp of votes polled

Turnout 2022

60.3%

Seat median 60.1% over 5 contests

[01]Winners and margins

Oldest first · bars scaled to the widest margin, 20.7 pp

2002
20.7 pp
Rajpal Singh BaliyanRashtriya Lok Dalby 28,171 votes
2007
13.3 pp
Yograj SinghBahujan Samaj Partyby 16,021 votes
2012
9.1 pp
Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada)Bharatiya Janata Partyby 13,822 votes
2017
9.7 pp
Dr. Neelkanth TiwariBharatiya Janata Partyby 17,226 votes
2022
5.5 pp
Dr. Neelkanth TiwariBharatiya Janata Partyby 10,722 votes

[02]Parties on this seat

Top 8 by wins · 32 parties and independents

BJP 3 of 475% won BSP 1 of 520% won RLD 1 of 250% won · 1 second IND 0 of 260% won INC 0 of 40% won · 2 second SP 0 of 40% won · 2 second MJP 0 of 20% won AAP 0 of 10% won

Won of candidatures, counted from the published candidate lines; independents are counted together.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJP won 3 of 5 contests on record (60.0%).
wins by party: BJP 3 · BSP 1 · RLD 1 · 3 ÷ 5 = 60.0%
The seat changed party 2 times in 4 successive pairs of contests.
2002 RLD → 2007 BSP → 2012 BJP → 2017 BJP → 2022 BJP
The closest contest was 2022 at 5.5 pp; the widest 2002 at 20.7 pp.
min / max of margin % over 5 contests
The 2022 margin of 5.5 pp was 4.2 pp below the seat's median of 9.7 pp.
5.5 − 9.7 = −4.2
Turnout moved from 60.1% in 2002 to 60.3% in 2022, +0.2 pp.
60.3 − 60.1 = +0.2
The name Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari appears as winner in 2 contests: 2017 and 2022.
winner names matched across years, ignoring spacing and punctuation

Each line is arithmetic over the contests on this page.

[04]Turnout by year

White mark: seat median, 60.1%

2002 60.1%

2007 47.1%

2012 55.5%

2017 63.4%

2022 60.3%

[05]Every contest

5 rows · most recent first

Every Vidhan Sabha contest on record for Varanasi South, Uttar Pradesh
Year	Winner	Party	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
2022	Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,722	5.5	60.3
2017	Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party	17,226	9.7	63.4
2012	Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari (Dada)	Bharatiya Janata Party	13,822	9.1	55.5
2007	Yograj Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party	16,021	13.3	47.1
2002	Rajpal Singh Baliyan	Rashtriya Lok Dal	28,171	20.7	60.1

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 28,171 votes

ContestsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha · Varanasi South, Uttar Pradesh · 5 contests · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Party recordCounted from the published candidate lines for this seat · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Medians and countsComputed from the contests on this page when the page was built