Varanasi Cantonment is a constituency of the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...

covering the city of Varanasi Cantonment in the

Varanasi district Varanasi district is a district in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with Varanasi city as the district headquarters. It is surrounded by Mirzapur district, Jaunpur district, Ghazipur district, Chandauli district, and Bhadohi distric ...

of Uttar Pradesh, India. Varanasi Cantonment is one of five assembly constituencies in the

Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency ( hi, वाराणसी लोकसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India. Narendra Modi ...

. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 390 amongst 403 constituencies. As of now, this seat belongs to

Bharatiya Janta Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

candidate ''Saurabh Srivastava'' who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

candidate ''Anil Srivastava'' by a margin of 61,326 votes.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

References

External links

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