Kanpur Cantonment (Assembly constituency)

Kanpur Cantonment
Kanpur Cantonment
Constituency
District	Kanpur Nagar
State	Uttar Pradesh
Electorate	3,35,587 (2017)
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Indian National Congress
MLA	Sohil Akhtar Ansari
Reservation	None

Kanpur Cantonment Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of 403 legislative assembly seats of the Uttar Pradesh. It is part of the Kanpur (Lok Sabha constituency).

OverviewEdit

Kanpur Cantonment comprises Kanpur (CB), Northern Railway Colony (CT), Wards No. 17, 23, 56, 58, 70, 75, 81, 84, 93, 97, and 100 in Kanpur Municipal Corporation of 2- Kanpur Sadar Tehsil.^[1]

Members of Legislative AssemblyEdit

Vidhan Sabha	Duration	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
Fourth	1967-69	Devi Sahai Bajpai	Indian National Congress
Fifth	1969-77	Manohar Lal	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
Sixth	1974-77	Shyam Mishra	Indian National Congress
Seventh	1977-80	Babu Ram Shukla	Janata Party
Eighth	1980-85	Bhudhar Narayan Mishra	Indian National Congress (I)
Ninth	1985-89	Pashupati Nath Mehrotra	Indian National Congress
Tenth	1989-91	Ganesh Dixit	Janata Dal
Eleventh	1991-93	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Twelfth	1993-96	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Thirteenth	1996-2002	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Fourteenth	2002-07	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Fifteenth	2007-12	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sixteenth	2012-17	Raghunandan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
Seventeenth	2017-Incumbent	Sohil Akhtar Ansari	Indian National Congress

Election resultsEdit

2017Edit

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sohil Akhtar Ansari	72,375	40.8	+24.44
	BJP	Raghunandan Singh Bhadauria	52,000	30.54	+11.21
	BSP	Naseem Ahmad	13,000	28.92	+22.28
	SP	Mohammad Hassan Roomi	5,954	3.37	-19.66
	SHS	Ranjit Singh Sangar	422	0.24	+0.24
	NOTA	None of the Above	729	0.41	+0.41
Majority			14167	7.12	-2.14
Turnout			1,76,462	52.58	+4.12
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	+16.52

2012Edit

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Raghunandan Singh Bhadauria	42,551	29.48
	SP	Mohammad Hassan Roomi	33,243	23.03
	INC	Abdul Mannan Ansari	31,122	21.56
	BSP	Sohil Akhtar Ansari	26,205	18.15
	PECP	Mohammad Tahir Ansari	5,371	3.72
Majority			9,308	6.45
Turnout			1,44,351	48.46
	BJP hold		Swing

2007Edit

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	47,381	46.73
	SP	Mehtab Alam	20,845	20.56
	INC	Ganesh Dixit	15,935	15.72
	BSP	Narendra Singh	13,375	13.19
	Independent	Raju Sonker	1,089	1.07
Majority			26,536	26.17
Turnout			1,01,394	40.39
	BJP hold		Swing

2002Edit

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2002: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	45,839	45.88
	INC	Girish Kumar Trivedi	35,774	35.81
	SP	Som Chandra Gupta	12,502	12.51
	BSP	Mahammed Haneef	3,578	3.58
	Independent	Vakeel	700	0.70
Majority			10,065	10.07
Turnout			99,909	37.00
	BJP hold		Swing

1996Edit

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Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 1996: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	64,578	59.51
	BSP	Ashok Kumar Kaalia	23,087	21.27
	SP	Ganesh Awasthi	19,927	18.39
	ABHM	Pravin Gopal Jee	367	0.34
style="background-color: Template:Natural Law Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Natural Law Party\|Template:Natural Law Party/meta/shortname]]	Asim Alam	214	0.20
Majority			41,491	38.24
Turnout			1,08,498	42.37
	BJP hold		Swing

1993Edit

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Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 1993: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	59,013	52.19
	SP	Ganesh Dixit	36,208	32.08
	INC	Sriprakash Jaiswal	15,679	13.87
	JD	Laxmi Shankar	826	0.73
	JP	Devendra Kumar	209	0.18
Majority			22,805	20.11
Turnout			1,13,069	55.09
	BJP hold		Swing

1991Edit

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Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 1991: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	33,897	44.60
	INC	Shyam Mishra	17,927	23.59
	Independent	Ganesh Dixit	12,661	16.66
	JP	Deepak Kumar	7,703	10.14
	BSP	Naseem Ahmed	2,793	3.68
Majority			15,970	21.01
Turnout			76,000	37.46
	BJP gain from JD		Swing

1989Edit

U. P. Assembly Election, 1989: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD	Ganesh Dixit	29,511	38.46
	INC	Pashupati Nath Mehrotra	21,930	28.58
	BJP	Hari Dixit	16,566	21.59
	Independent	Babu Ram Shukla	4,623	6.03
	BSP	Shiv Prasad	2,606	3.40
Majority			7,581	9.88
Turnout			76,727	38.21
	JD gain from INC		Swing

1985Edit

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1985: Kanpur Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Pashupati Nath	25,551	65.15
	[[Lok Dal\|Template:Lok Dal/meta/shortname]]	Laxmi Shanker	7,561	19.28
	BJP	Virbhadra Misra	4,279	10.91
	JP	Deen Dayal	548	1.40
	Independent	Ateekur Rahman	400	1.02
Majority			17,990	45.87
Turnout			39,216	27.60
	INC hold		Swing

e • d
Party	Seats won	Seat change
Bharatiya Janata Party	2	1
Samajwadi Party	2	1
Indian National Congress	1	0
Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0

ReferencesEdit

[1] Kanpur Cantonment Vidhan Sabha constituency

[2] Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2012

[3] Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2012

[4] Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2012

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