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Varanasi North
Constituency details
State
Uttar Pradesh
District
Varanasi
Reservation
None
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA
Ravindra Jaiswal
Party
Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year
2017
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.
Varanasi North is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 388 amongst 403 constituencies.
As of now, this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Ravindra Jaiswal who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Abdul Samad Ansari by a margin of 45,502 votes.[1]
Members of Legislative Assembly[]
Year
Member
Political Party
1951
Sheikh Abdul Samad
Indian National Congress
1951
Lal Bahadur Singh
Indian National Congress
1957
Abdus Samad
Indian National Congress
1962
Vishwanath Prasad
Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1967
Vishwanath Prasad
Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1969
Shankar Prasad Jaiswal
Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1974
Shafiur Rahman Ansari
Indian National Congress
1977
Mushtaq Ahmad
Janata Party
1980
Shafiur Rahman Ansari
Indian National Congress (I)
1985
Shafiur Rahman Ansari
Indian National Congress
1989
Amarnath Yadav
Bharatiya Janata Party
1991
Amarnath Yadav
Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
Amarnath Yadav
Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
Abdul Kalam
Samajwadi Party
2002
Abdul Kalam
Samajwadi Party
2005
Rabiya Kalam
Samajwadi Party
2007
Abdul Samad Ansari
Samajwadi Party
2012
Ravindra Jaiswal
Bharatiya Janata Party
2017
Ravindra Jaiswal
Bharatiya Janata Party
Election results[]
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Varanasi North