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About Varanasi Cantonment Assembly Constituency
Varanasi Cantonment is constituency No. 390 of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly.It belongs to Varanasi district in Purvanchal region of the state. It comes under the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.
According to data with the Election Commission of India, has 3,49,472 registered voters. It comprises 1,94,781 male and 1,54,674 female registered voters besides 17 voters in the Others category.
The BJP won this constituency by 12,852 votes in the 2012 Assembly elections. Jyotsana Srivastava, the winning BJP candidate, got 57918 votes. The nearest contender was Anil Srivastava of the Congress who got 45,066 votes. The voter turnout was 51.73 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Varanasi Cantt. Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Varanasi Cantt. assembly elections conducted so far.
Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
2017 | 390 | Varanasi Cantt. | GEN | Saurabh Srivastava | M | BJP | 132609 | Anil Srivastava | M | INC | 71283 |
2012 | 390 | Varanasi Cantt. | GEN | Jyotsana Srivastava | F | BJP | 57918 | Anil Srivastwa | M | INC | 45066 |
2007 | 225 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Dr. Jyotasana Shrivastav | F | BJP | 31642 | Manoj Rai Pappu | M | SP | 26163 |
2002 | 225 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Harish Chand Srivastava (Harish Ji) | M | BJP | 41426 | Manoj Rai Pappu | M | SP | 28729 |
1996 | 241 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Harish Chandra (Harish Ji) | M | BJP | 55240 | Sunil Kumar Rai | M | SP | 26752 |
1993 | 241 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Jyotsana | F | BJP | 51388 | Athar Jamal Lari | M | JD | 35388 |
1991 | 241 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Jyotsana Srivastava | F | BJP | 31305 | Athat Jamal Lari | F | JD | 26209 |
1989 | 241 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Shatrudra Prakash | M | JD | 35173 | Majumdar | M | INC | 17111 |
1985 | 241 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Sharrudh Prakash | M | LKD | 17721 | Ganesh Prasad Jaiswal | M | INC | 15414 |
1980 | 241 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Mandavi Prasad Singh | M | INC(I) | 17051 | Satrudra Prakash | M | JNP(SR) | 11435 |
1977 | 241 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Shatroodh Prakash | M | JNP | 28973 | Kiran Kumar Sharma | M | INC | 13256 |
1974 | 241 | Varanasi Cantt. | GEN | Shatrudh Prakash | M | BKD | 19078 | Lal Bahadur Singh | M | INC | 14787 |
1969 | 246 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | Lal Bahadur | M | INC | 20776 | Varmeshwar Pande | M | BJS | 13389 |
1967 | 246 | Varanasi Cantonment | GEN | V . Pandey | M | BJS | 11891 | L . Bahadur | M | INC | 10883 |
Last Updated on February 27, 2023