Dehradun Cantonment (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)

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Dehradun Cantonment
Constituency
DistrictDehradun
StateUttarakhand
Electorate126,165 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created2012
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
MLAHarbans Kapoor
ReservationNone

21-Dehradun Cantonment Legislative Assembly constituency (Dehradun Cantt) is one of the seventy electoral Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand state in India. This seat is previously known as Dehradun Constituency before 2002 Delimitation

Dehradun Cantt Legislative Assembly constituency is a part of Tehri Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency). It includes 15 wards of Dehradun Municipal Corporation and Dehradun Cantonment area

Dehradun Municipal Corporation Wards[edit]

  • Kaulagarh
  • Ballupur
  • Yamuna Colony
  • Govindgarh
  • Sridev Suman Nagar
  • Vijay Park
  • Vasant Vihar
  • Panditwari
  • Indira Nagar
  • Seemadwar
  • Indirapuram
  • Kanwali
  • Dronpuri
  • Patel Nagar West
  • Gandhi Gram

Members of Legislative Assembly[edit]

Key  BJP  

Election Winner Party Runner up Party Margin
2012 Harbans Kapoor Bharatiya Janata Party Devendra Singh Sethi Indian National Congress 5,095
2017 Suryakant Dhasmana 16,670

Election results[edit]

2017 results[edit]

2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election: Dehradun Cantt
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Harbans Kapoor 41,142 56.99 Increase 9.56
INC Suryakant Dhasmana 24,472 33.90 Decrease 5.4
Independent Anoop Nautiyal 3,285 4.55 New
Independent Naveen Bisht 1,302 1.80 New
BSP Devendra Singh Saini 802 1.11 Decrease 1.4
RLD Kunwar Japinder 325 0.45 New
NCP Luxman Singh Negi 283 0.39 Increase 0.23
Independent Kapil Bhatia 159 0.22 New
Independent Sanjay Goyal 149 0.21 New
SP Dr RK Pathak 110 0.15 Decrease 0.32
[[Uttarakhand Kranti Dal|Template:Uttarakhand Kranti Dal/meta/shortname]] Shribilash 103 0.14 Decrease 0.36
Independent Arun Khanna 64 0.09 New
NOTA None of the above 641 0.89 New
Majority 16,670 22.88 Increase 14.75
Turnout 72,838 57.07 Decrease 4.12
BJP hold Swing

2012 results[edit]

2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election: Dehradun Cantt
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Harbans Kapoor 29,719 47.43
INC Devendra Singh Sethi 24,624 39.30
Independent Rajendra Pant 3,391 5.21
BSP Nupur Gupta 1,570 2.51
Independent Adesh Garg 1,118 1.78
Independent Jyotsna 567 0.90
AITC Vijendra Singh Thapa 367 0.59
[[Uttarakhand Kranti Dal|Template:Uttarakhand Kranti Dal/meta/shortname]] Sanjay Bhatt 315 0.50
SP Subhash Chand Jasoria 295 0.47
SHS Rahul Chauhan 260 0.41
Independent Indradev Shukl 160 0.26
Independent Rajiv Gupta 111 0.18
NCP Beer Singh Rawat 100 0.16
IJP Pt. Madan Gopal 62 0.10
Majority 5,095 8.13
Turnout 62,659 61.19
BJP hold Swing

See also[edit]

References[edit]