Varanasi Cantt. (Assembly Constituency)
Varanasi Cantonment is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Varanasi Cantonment in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Varanasi Cantonment is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 390 amongst 403 constituencies.
As of now, this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Saurabh Srivastava who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Anil Srivastava by a margin of 61,326 votes.
Members of Legislative Assembly
Year | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1967 | Varmeshwar Pandey | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
1969 | Lal Bahadur Singh | Indian National Congress | |
1974 | Shatarudra Prakash | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | |
1977 | Janata Party | ||
1980 | Mandavi Prasad Singh | Indian National Congress (I) | |
1985 | Shatarudra Prakash | Lok Dal | |
1989 | Janata Dal | ||
1991 | Jyotsana Srivastava | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1993 | |||
1996 | Harish Chandra Srivastava | ||
2002 | |||
2007 | Jyotsana Srivastava | ||
2012 | |||
2017 | Saurabh Srivastava | ||
2022 |
Election results
2022
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Saurabh Srivastava | 147,833 | 60.63 | ||
SP | Pooja Yadav | 60,989 | 25.01 | ||
INC | Rajesh Mishra | 23,807 | 9.76 | ||
BSP | Kaushik Pandey | 7,068 | 2.90 | ||
AAP | Rakesh Pandey | 1,165 | 0.48 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 1,522 | 0262 | ||
Majority | 86,844 | 35.62 | |||
Turnout | 2,43,847 | 53.09 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
2017
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Saurabh Srivastava | 132,609 | 58.26 | ||
INC | Anil Srivastava | 71,283 | 31.32 | ||
BSP | Rijwan Ahmad | 14,118 | 6.20 | ||
CPI | Ajoy Mukherjee | 1,515 | 0.66 | ||
IND. | Dhurandhar Singh | 991 | 0.43 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 758 | 0.33 | ||
Majority | 61,326 | 26.94 | |||
Turnout | 2,27,611 | 55.20 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
2012
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Jyotsana Srivastava | 57,918 | 32.05 | ||
INC | Anil Kumar Srivastava | 45,066 | 24.94 | ||
SP | Ashfaq Ahmad | 37,922 | 20.99 | ||
BSP | Chandra Kumar Mishra | 22,162 | 12.27 | ||
QED | Mohammad Saleem | 5,366 | 2.97 | ||
Majority | 12,852 | 7.11 | |||
Turnout | 1,80,689 | 51.70 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
2007
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Jyotsana Srivastava | 31,642 | 26.04 | ||
SP | Manoj Rai | 26,163 | 21.53 | ||
INC | Anil Srivastava | 19,778 | 16.27 | ||
BSP | Raj Kumar Singh | 17,193 | 14.15 | ||
SBSP | Ashfaq Ahmad | 11,787 | 9.70 | ||
Majority | 5,479 | 4.51 | |||
Turnout | 1,21,520 | 31.58 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
2002
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Harish Chandra Srivastava | 41,426 | 31.05 | ||
SP | Manoj Rai | 28,729 | 21.54 | ||
AD | Mohammad Istaqbal Qureshi | 20,915 | 15.68 | ||
INC | Shatrudra Prakash | 18,041 | 13.52 | ||
BSP | Abhishek Yadav | 15,595 | 11.69 | ||
Majority | 12,697 | 9.51 | |||
Turnout | 1,33,405 | 39.26 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
1996
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Harish Chandra Srivastava | 55,240 | 43.03 | ||
SP | Sunil Kumar Rai | 26,752 | 20.84 | ||
INC | Anil Srivastava | 25,651 | 19.98 | ||
JD | Rajendra Singh | 7,879 | 6.14 | ||
AD | Akaram | 6,360 | 4.95 | ||
Majority | 28,488 | 22.19 | |||
Turnout | 1,28,366 | 41.46 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
1993
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Jyotsana Srivastava | 51,388 | 44.96 | ||
JD | Athar Jamal Lari | 35,388 | 30.96 | ||
SP | Shatrudra Prakash | 13,559 | 11.86 | ||
INC | J. P. Singh | 6,437 | 5.63 | ||
LKD | Meera Yadav | 1,000 | 0.87 | ||
Majority | 16,000 | 14.00 | |||
Turnout | 1,14,288 | 48.49 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
1991
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Jyotsana Srivastava | 31,305 | 37.39 | ||
JD | Athar Jamal Lari | 26,209 | 31.31 | ||
INC | Anil Srivastava | 10,091 | 12.05 | ||
JP | Shatrudra Prakash | 8,200 | 9.79 | ||
BSP | Mansha Ram | 2,792 | 3.34 | ||
Majority | 5,096 | 6.08 | |||
Turnout | 83,718 | 39.46 | |||
BJP gain from JD | Swing |
1989
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
JD | Shatarudra Prakash | 35,173 | 41.88 | ||
INC | Majumdar | 17,111 | 20.37 | ||
BJP | Jyotsana Srivastava | 13,262 | 15.79 | ||
BSP | Mahesh Kumar Yadav | 5,445 | 6.48 | ||
Independent | Pramod | 3,486 | 4.15 | ||
Majority | 18,062 | 21.51 | |||
Turnout | 83,988 | 40.32 | |||
JD gain from LKD | Swing |
1985
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LKD | Shatarudra Prakash | 17,721 | 32.16 | ||
INC | Ganesh Prasad Jaiswal | 15,414 | 27.97 | ||
BJP | Jeetendra Nath Dubey | 6,538 | 11.86 | ||
CPI | Moti Lal Patel | 3,412 | 6.19 | ||
Independent | Channu Lal Shastri | 2,473 | 4.49 | ||
Majority | 2,307 | 4.19 | |||
Turnout | 55,111 | 37.11 | |||
LKD gain from INC(I) | Swing |
References
- ^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ^ "Varanasi Cantt. Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
- ^ "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
External links
- "Results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.