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'''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 a constituency of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] covering the city of Varanasi Cantonment in the [[Varanasi district]] of Uttar Pradesh, India.
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|| 1967 || Varmeshwar Pandey || [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
|| 1967 || Varmeshwar Pandey || [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]]
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|style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|| 1969 || Lal Bahadur Singh || [[Indian National Congress]]
|| 1969 || Lal Bahadur Singh || [[Indian National Congress]]
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|style="background-color: {{Socialist Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Socialist Party}}" |
|| 1974 || [[Shatarudra Prakash]] || [[Bharatiya Kranti Dal]]
|| 1974 || [[Shatarudra Prakash]] || [[Bharatiya Kranti Dal]]
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|style="background-color: {{Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Party}}" |
|| 1977 || [[Shatarudra Prakash]] || [[Janata Party]]
|| 1977 || [[Shatarudra Prakash]] || [[Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|| 1980 || Mandavi Prasad Singh || [[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|| 1980 || Mandavi Prasad Singh || [[Indian National Congress (I)]]
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|style="background-color: {{Lok Dal/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Lok Dal}}" |
|| 1985 || [[Shatarudra Prakash]] || [[Lok Dal]]
|| 1985 || [[Shatarudra Prakash]] || [[Lok Dal]]
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|style="background-color: {{Janata Dal/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Janata Dal}}" |
|| 1989 || [[Shatarudra Prakash]] || [[Janata Dal]]
|| 1989 || [[Shatarudra Prakash]] || [[Janata Dal]]
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|-
|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 1991 || [[Jyotsana Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 1991 || [[Jyotsana Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 1993 || [[Jyotsana Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 1993 || [[Jyotsana Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 1996 || [[Harish Chandra Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 1996 || [[Harish Chandra Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 2002 || [[Harish Chandra Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 2002 || [[Harish Chandra Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 2007 || [[Jyotsana Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 2007 || [[Jyotsana Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 2012 || [[Jyotsana Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 2012 || [[Jyotsana Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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|style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|| 2017 || [[Saurabh Srivastava (politician)|Saurabh Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|| 2017 || [[Saurabh Srivastava (politician)|Saurabh Srivastava]] || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
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Revision as of 17:18, 8 December 2021

Varanasi Cantonment
Constituency
DistrictVaranasi
StateUttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created1967
PartyBharatiya Janta Party
MLASaurabh Srivastava
ReservationNone
Last election2017

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.[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Member Political Party
1967 Varmeshwar Pandey Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969 Lal Bahadur Singh Indian National Congress
1974 Shatarudra Prakash Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1977 Shatarudra Prakash Janata Party
1980 Mandavi Prasad Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Shatarudra Prakash Lok Dal
1989 Shatarudra Prakash Janata Dal
1991 Jyotsana Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party
1993 Jyotsana Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party
1996 Harish Chandra Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party
2002 Harish Chandra Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party
2007 Jyotsana Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party
2012 Jyotsana Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party
2017 Saurabh Srivastava Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Varanasi Cantonment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Saurabh Srivastava 1,32,609 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
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Varanasi Cantonment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Dr. 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
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007: Varanasi Cantonment
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
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2002: Varanasi Cantonment
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
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1996: Varanasi Cantonment
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
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1993: Varanasi Cantonment
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
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1991: Varanasi Cantonment
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
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1989: Varanasi Cantonment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD Shatrudra 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 Lok Dal Swing
U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1985: Varanasi Cantonment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LKD Shatrudra 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
Lok Dal gain from Indian National Congress (Indira) Swing

References

  1. ↑ "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.


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