Varanasi North Assembly constituency explained

Varanasi North
Mla:Ravindra Jaiswal
Party:Bharatiya Janta Party
Latest Election Year:2022
State:Uttar Pradesh
District:Varanasi
Reservation:None
Electors:4,04,345 (2019)
Type:SLA
Constituency No:388

Varanasi North is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Varanasi North in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.[1]

Varanasi North is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency has been numbered 388 amongst 403 constituencies.

Members of Legislative Assembly

YearMember[2] Party
1952Sheikh Abdul SamadIndian National Congress
Lal Bahadur Singh
1957Sheikh Abdul Samad
1962Vishwanath PrasadBharatiya Jana Sangh
1967
1969Shankar Prasad Jaiswal
1974Shafiur Rahman AnsariIndian National Congress
1977Mushtaq AhmadJanata Party
1980Shafiur Rahman AnsariIndian National Congress (I)
1985Indian National Congress
1989Amarnath YadavBharatiya Janata Party
1991
1993
1996Abdul KalamSamajwadi Party
2002
2005^Rabiya Begum
2007Abdul Samad Ansari
2012Ravindra JaiswalBharatiya Janata Party
2017
2022

Election results

2017

Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Ravindra Jaiswal won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Abdul Samad Ansari by a margin of 45,502 votes.

2007

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 . 26 November 2008 . 24 June 2021.
  2. Web site: Varanasi North. Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs . Elections in India.