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Varanasi South
Constituency details
State
Uttar Pradesh
District
Varanasi
Total electors
2,81,290 (2017)
Reservation
None
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA
Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari
Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year
2017
Varanasi South is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Varanasi South in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Varanasi South is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency). Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 389 amongst 403 constituencies.
As of now, this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Rajesh Mishra by a margin of 17,226 votes.[1]