From 8da419215e8bf95a57bf7a760468a24b765eee68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Hoffmann <2836374+timhoffm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:43:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #24514: Fix potential issue in contour

---
 lib/matplotlib/contour.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/contour.py b/lib/matplotlib/contour.py
index 2f8c934e70b9..2c653180750d 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/contour.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/contour.py
@@ -1362,6 +1362,7 @@ def find_nearest_contour(self, x, y, indices=None, pixel=True):
         d2min = np.inf
         conmin = None
         segmin = None
+        imin = None
         xmin = None
         ymin = None