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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 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 [ edit ]
Election results [ edit ]
2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election :
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
BJP
Saurabh Srivastava
1,47,833
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
0.62
Majority
86,844
35.62
Turnout
2,43,847
53.09
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
[[Lok Dal|Template:Lok Dal/meta/shortname ]]
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
%
[[Lok Dal|Template:Lok Dal/meta/shortname ]]
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
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