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.
Year | Member[2] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1952 | Sheikh Abdul Samad | Indian National Congress | |
Lal Bahadur Singh | |||
1957 | Sheikh Abdul Samad | ||
1962 | Vishwanath Prasad | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
1967 | |||
1969 | Shankar Prasad Jaiswal | ||
1974 | Shafiur Rahman Ansari | Indian National Congress | |
1977 | Mushtaq Ahmad | Janata Party | |
1980 | Shafiur Rahman Ansari | Indian National Congress (I) | |
1985 | Indian National Congress | ||
1989 | Amarnath Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1991 | |||
1993 | |||
1996 | Abdul Kalam | Samajwadi Party | |
2002 | |||
2005^ | Rabiya Begum | ||
2007 | Abdul Samad Ansari | ||
2012 | Ravindra Jaiswal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2017 | |||
2022 |
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.