Lucknow Cantonment (Assembly constituency)

Lucknow Cantt. is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the cantonment part of the city of Lucknow in Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Lucknow Cantonment
Constituency
District	Lucknow
State	Uttar Pradesh
Electorate	3,85,509 (Oct. 2019)
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	BJP
MLA	'Suresh Chandra Tiwari
Reservation	None

Lucknow Cantt. is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lucknow (Lok Sabha constituency) Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 175 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat is held by Suresh Chandra Tiwari who won in by-election in 2019 after incumbent Dr.Rita Bahuguna Joshi won lok sabha elction from Allahabad in 2019. Dr. Rita Bahuguna Joshi won in last general Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Lagislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Aparna Yadav by a margin of 33,796 votes.[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year		Member	Political Part
	1957	Shyam Manohar Misra	Indian National Congress
	1962	Balak Ram Vaish
	1967	Badri Prasad Awasthi	Independent
	1969	Sachchidanand	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
	1974	Charan Singh	Indian National Congress
	1977	Krishna Kant Misra	Janata Party
	1980	Premavati Tiwari	Indian National Congress (I)
	1985		Indian National Congress
	1989
	1991	Satish Bhatia	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1993
	1996	Suresh Chandra Tiwari
	2002
	2007
	2012	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	Indian National Congress
	2017		Bharatiya Janata Party
	2019*	Suresh Chandra Tiwari

• *By Election 2019

Election results

Bye-election, 2019: Lucknow Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Chandra Tiwari	56,684	51.03
	SP	Major Ashish Chaturvedi	21,256	19.14
	INC	Dilpreet Singh Virk	19,445	17.51
	BSP	Arun Dwivedi	10,709	9.64
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,368	1.23
Majority			35,428	31.89
Turnout			1,11,079	28.81
	BJP hold		Swing

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	95,402	50.90
	SP	Aparna Yadav	61,606	32.87
	BSP	Yogesh Dixit	26,036	13.89
	RLD	Virendra Kumar Shukla	720	0.38
	SHS	Kunwar Gaurav Upadhyay	397	0.21
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,150	0.61
Majority			33,796	18.03
Turnout			1,87,433	50.89
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	63,052	38.95
	BJP	Suresh Chandra Tiwari	41,299	25.51
	BSP	Naveen Chandra Dwivedi	28,851	17.82
	SP	Suresh Chauhan	22,544	13.93
	Independent	Avinash Kumar Srivastava	671	0.41
Majority			21,753	13.44
Turnout			1,61,890	50.47
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Chandra Tiwari	30,444	30.76
	BSP	Arvind Kumar Tripathi	25,068	25.33
	SP	Sharda Pratap Shukla	19,290	19.49
	INC	Murli Dhar	19,280	19.48
	RTKP	Shahid Ali	1,024	1.03
Majority			5,376	5.43
Turnout			98,951	29.64
	BJP hold		Swing

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Chandra Tiwari	36,473	40.52
	SP	Sharda Pratap Shukla	21,126	23.47
	INC	Rajendra Singh	20,527	22.80
	BSP	Balbir Singh Saluja	6,134	6.81
	Independent	Sridevi Kinner	3,527	3.92
Majority			15,347	17.05
Turnout			90,020	31.48
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Elections, 1996: Lucknow Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Chandra Tiwari	61,836	63.82
	SP	Raj Kishore Mishra	18,050	18.63
	BSP	Subhash Kapoor	15,473	15.97
	Independent	Uday Pratap Singh	609	0.63
	BHJS	Om Prakash	555	0.57
Majority			43,786	45.19
Turnout			96,888	36.46
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1993 Lucknow Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satish Bhatia	48,898	52.06
	SP	Gurubux Singh	26,852	28.59
	INC	Premavati Tiwari	15,098	16.08
	JD	A. C. Bahuguna	712	0.76
	JP	Vimal Singh	371	0.40
Majority			22,046	23.47
Turnout			93,920	48.86
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1991: Lucknow Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satish Bhatia	32,159	53.18
	INC	Premavati Tiwari	15,803	26.13
	JP	Shiva Chand Sahu	7,105	11.75
	BSP	Rasheed Bhartiya	2,072	3.43
	JD	Urmila Singh	1,681	2.78
Majority			16,356	27.05
Turnout			60,468	27.69
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1989: Lucknow Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Premavati Tiwari	19,204	33.95
	JD	Sachchidanand	17,145	30.31
	BJP	S. C. Bhatia	16,196	28.63
	BSP	Jawahar	1,502	2.66
	Independent	Abdul Nasir Naasir	1,145	2.02
Majority			2,059	3.64
Turnout			56,570	26.54
	INC hold		Swing

References

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