Uttar Pradesh Election 2022: Varanasi North Assembly Seat
]Uttar Pradesh Election: Varanasi North Assembly Constituency 2022
Varanasi North comes under the Varanasi district and it is one of the 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Varanasi North voted for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022 on March 7 and the result was declared on March 10.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2017, there were 3,84,574 registered voters for Varanasi North assembly seat, out of which 2,12,716 were male and 1,71,858 were female voters. 0.3% of voters opted for for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election 2017, Varanasi North constituency had 17 candidates for assembly seat contention. Total 312 seats were won by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Varanasi North was one of them. The election for Varanasi North seat was comfortably won by Bharatiya Janata Party's Ravindra Jaiswal defeating Indian National Congress's Abdul Samad Ansari by a huge margin of 45,502 votes.
The top three candidates split 96.7% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Ravindra Jaiswal got a total of 1,16,017 votes, while Indian National Congress's Abdul Samad Ansari secured 70,515 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party's candidate Sujeet Kumar Maurya grabbed the third spot with 32,574 votes. The top three parties got 51.2%, 31.1% and 14.4% respectively.
In Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012, Bharatiya Janata Party's Ravindra Jaiswal beat Bahujan Samaj Party's Sujit Kumar Maurya by 2,336 votes.