Varanasi Cantonment Assembly constituency explained

Varanasi Cantonment
Mla:Saurabh Srivastava
Party:Bharatiya Janata Party
Latest Election Year:2022
State:Uttar Pradesh
District:Varanasi
Reservation:None
Electors:4,32,293 (2019)
Type:SLA
Constituency No:390

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]

Members of Legislative Assembly

YearMember[3] Party
1967Varmeshwar PandeyBharatiya Jana Sangh
1969Lal Bahadur SinghIndian National Congress
1974Shatarudra PrakashBharatiya Kranti Dal
1977Janata Party
1980Mandavi Prasad SinghIndian National Congress (I)
1985Shatarudra PrakashLok Dal
1989Janata Dal
1991Jyotsana SrivastavaBharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996Harish Chandra Srivastava
2002
2007Jyotsana Srivastava
2012
2017Saurabh Srivastava
2022

Election results

1985

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 . 26 November 2008 . 24 June 2021.
  2. Web site: Assembly result 2017. Elections.in. 2017-08-25.
  3. Web site: Varanasi Cantt. Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs . Elections in India.