About Varanasi North Assembly Constituency

Varanasi North is constituency No. 388 of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly. Uttar Pradesh has a sum total of 403 constituencies. This constituency 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, Varanasi North has 3,46,724 registered voters. It comprises 1,92,216 male and 1,54,486 female registered voters.

The BJP won this constituency in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections by a narrow margin of 2,336 votes. Ravindra Jaiswal, the winning BJP candidate, got 47,980 votes. BSP candidate Sujit Kumar Maurya was the nearest contender; he got 45,644 votes. The voter turnout was 55.49 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Varanasi North Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2017	388	Varanasi North	GEN	Ravindra Jaiswal	M	BJP	116017	Abdul Samad Ansari	M	INC	70515
2012	388	Varanasi North	GEN	Ravindra Jaiswal	M	BJP	47980	Sujit Kumar Maurya	M	BSP	45644
2007	227	Varanasi North	GEN	Haji Abdul Samad Ansari	M	SP	26544	Dr. Shivnath Yadav	M	BJP	24345
2005	By Polls	Varanasi North	GEN	Rabiya Begam	F	SP	48862	Ravindra Jaiswal	M	BJP	32864
2002	227	Varanasi North	GEN	Abdul Kalam	M	SP	56805	Ravindra Jaiswal	M	BJP	37268
1996	243	Varanasi North	GEN	Abdul Kalam	M	SP	67349	Amar Nath Yadav	M	BJP	55539
1993	243	Varanasi North	GEN	Amarnath Yadav	M	BJP	43974	Kalam	M	IND	36696
1991	243	Varanasi North	GEN	Amar Nath Yadav	M	BJP	48985	Mohd. Swaleh Ansari	M	INC	35411
1989	243	Varanasi North	GEN	Amarnath Yadav	M	BJP	35111	Riazul Haque Ansari	M	JD	23488
1985	243	Varanasi North	GEN	Mohd. Safiurrahman Ansari S/O Haji Mohammadddin	M	INC	23078	Riyazulhaq Ansari	M	JNP	12985
1980	243	Varanasi North	GEN	Mohd. Shafirahman Ansari	M	INC(I)	23197	Shafullah Ansari	M	BJP	21976
1977	243	Varanasi North	GEN	Mushtaq Ahmed	M	JNP	38562	Abdul Aziz	M	INC	15462
1974	243	Varanasi North	GEN	Mohammad Safiur Raham Ansari	M	INC	25644	Shankar Prasad Jaiswal	M	BJS	21100
1969	247	Varanasi North	GEN	Sankar Prasad Jaiswal	M	BJS	27291	Ganesh Pd. Jaiswal	M	INC	23649
1967	247	Varanasi North	GEN	V . Prasad	M	BJS	24145	G . Das	M	INC	15119
1962	264	Varanasi City North	GEN	Vishwanath Prasad	M	JS	22388	M. Abdus Samad	M	INC	21235
1957	190	Varanasi City North	GEN	Mohammad Abdus Samad	M	INC	23665	Rama Nand Singh	M	BJS	13564
1951	260	Banaras North	GEN	Singh Lal Bahadur	M	INC	8907	Ram Narain	M	SP	8770
1951	258	Banaras City North	GEN	Shaikh Mohd. Abdul Samad	M	INC	19684	Sahu Bishwanath	M	BJS	12262