| Varanasi Cantonment | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 390 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | North India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Varanasi |
| Total electors | 4,32,293 (2019) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent Saurabh Srivastava | |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2022 |
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.[1]
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.[2]
| Year | Member | Political 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 | |||
| 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 | 0.62 | ||
| Majority | 86,844 | 35.62 | |||
| Turnout | 2,43,847 | 53.09 | |||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||