Varanasi Cantonment Assembly constituency


nameVaranasi Cantonment
mlaSaurabh Srivastava
partyBharatiya Janata Party
year2022
stateUttar Pradesh
districtVaranasi
reservationNone
electors4,32,293 (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

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