Varanasi Cantonment Assembly constituency
name | Varanasi Cantonment |
mla | Saurabh Srivastava |
party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
year | 2022 |
state | Uttar Pradesh |
district | Varanasi |
reservation | None |
electors | 4,32,293 (2019) |
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.
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 | |
2022 | Saurabh Srivastava) | Bharatiya Janata Party |