Varanasi Cantonment (Assembly constituency)

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
Constituency
District	Varanasi
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
MLA	Saurabh Srivastava
Reservation	None

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

Year		Member	Political Party
	1967	Varmeshwar Pandey	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
	1969	Lal Bahadur Singh	Indian National Congress
	1974	Shatarudra Prakash	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
	1977	Shatarudra Prakash	Janata Party
	1980	Mandavi Prasad Singh	Indian National Congress (I)
	1985	Shatarudra Prakash	Lok Dal
	1989	Shatarudra Prakash	Janata Dal
	1991	Jyotsana Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1993	Jyotsana Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1996	Harish Chandra Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2002	Harish Chandra Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2007	Jyotsana Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2012	Jyotsana Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2017	Saurabh Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Varanasi Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Saurabh Srivastava	1,32,609	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			2,27,600	55.20
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Varanasi Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Dr. 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

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2007: Varanasi Cantonment

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

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2002: Varanasi Cantonment

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

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
	LKD	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 LKD		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1985: Varanasi Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	LKD	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
	LKD gain from INC(I)		Swing

References

1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.