Varanasi Cantt Assembly Election Results 2022

Varanasi Cantt is an assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In 2022, this constituency was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party.Varanasi Cantt comes under Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh State.
In 2022, Saurabh Shrivastav of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat by defeating Pooja Yadav of the Samajwadi Party with a margin of 86844 votes. Stay tuned with OneIndia for all the updates relating to this constituency. From campaign to election results, read all about Varanasi Cantt Vidhan Sabha (MLA) Constituency here. Find out who will be the winners, losers, victory margin and all other details on our special page.

Date of Polling: Monday, 07 March 2022

Date of Counting: Thursday, 8 December 2022

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Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2022)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2017)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2012)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2007)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2002)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1996)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1993)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1991)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1989)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1985)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1980)
Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1977)
Varanasi Cantt Past Election Results
Uttar Pradesh Assembly Constituencies

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Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2022)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Saurabh Shrivastav	BJP	Winner	147,833	60.63%	86,844
Pooja Yadav	SP	Runner Up	60,989	25.01%
Rajesh Mishra	INC	3^rd	23,807	9.76%
Kaoshik Kumar Pandey	BSP	4^th	7,068	2.90%
Nota	None Of The Above	5^th	1,522	0.62%
Rakesh Pandey	AAP	6^th	1,165	0.48%
Santosh Kumar Maurya	JANADIP	7^th	560	0.23%
Sahid Chaudhari	IND	8^th	353	0.14%
Shrikant Arya	BMUP	9^th	309	0.13%
Sheikh Ambar	Rashtriya Jantantrik Bharat Vikas Party	10^th	215	0.09%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2017)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Saurabh Srivastava	BJP	Winner	132,609	58.26%	61,326
Anil Srivastava	INC	Runner Up	71,283	31.32%
Rijwan Ahmad	BSP	3^rd	14,118	6.20%
Ajoy Mukherjee	CPI	4^th	1,515	0.67%
Dhurandhar Singh	IND	5^th	991	0.44%
Ajay Kumar Singh	SJP (CH)	6^th	765	0.34%
None Of The Above	NOTA	7^th	758	0.33%
Vinod Kumar Nishad "guru"	NISHAD	8^th	631	0.28%
Mrityunjai Verma	NCP	9^th	601	0.26%
Ram Prakash Ojha	IND	10^th	555	0.24%
Ganesh Shankar Chaturvedi	IND	11^th	469	0.21%
Bhuvaneshwar Dwivedi Urf Baba	IND	12^th	424	0.19%
Chandan Urf Ram Renu Chandan Advocate	MADP	13^th	381	0.17%
Sanjay Bajaj	NJP	14^th	288	0.13%
Shankar Prasad	RSJKP	15^th	279	0.12%
Sunil Kumar Shukla	IND	16^th	263	0.12%
Suraj	BKP	17^th	254	0.11%
Parvez Quadir Khan	IEMC	18^th	252	0.11%
Panna Lal Yadav	IND	19^th	239	0.11%
Satish Kumar	SSCP	20^th	216	0.09%
Shatrughan	ACP	21^th	195	0.09%
Sunil Kumar Maurya	IND	22^th	160	0.07%
Muhammad Akram	IND	23^th	137	0.06%
Mahesh Chandra Sharma	IND	24^th	111	0.05%
Vijay Shankar Pandey	IND	25^th	106	0.05%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2012)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Jyotsana Srivastava	BJP	Winner	57,918	32.00%	12,852
Anil Srivastwa	INC	Runner Up	45,066	25.00%
Ashfaq Ahmad Alias Dablu	SP	3^rd	37,922	21.00%
Chandra Kumar Mishra Alias Guddu Maharaj	BSP	4^th	22,162	12.00%
Mohd. Saleem	QED	5^th	5,366	3.00%
Vikash	AD	6^th	1,800	1.00%
Shiv Kumar	PMSP	7^th	1,599	1.00%
Shambhu Nath Batul	AITC	8^th	1,107	1.00%
Ramakant Tripathi	IND	9^th	900	1.00%
Rohit Yadav	RLM	10^th	877	0.00%
Anil Kumar Pandey	RSMD	11^th	659	0.00%
Satya Prakash Srivastava	IND	12^th	645	0.00%
Aflatoon	SWJP	13^th	632	0.00%
Sadabrij	SSD	14^th	593	0.00%
Vinod Kumar	JaKP	15^th	529	0.00%
Laljee Chakrawal	LPSP	16^th	504	0.00%
Seema	BSA	17^th	466	0.00%
Ranjit Upadhyay	SM	18^th	392	0.00%
Parvez Quadir Khan	IND	19^th	382	0.00%
Aditya Kumar	IND	20^th	269	0.00%
Ram Chandar Yadav	DSP	21^th	251	0.00%
Ardhendu Shekhar Tiwari	LJP	22^th	249	0.00%
Ravi Singh	JMM	23^th	215	0.00%
Mohammad Javed	IND	24^th	186	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2007)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Dr. Jyotasana Shrivastav	BJP	Winner	31,642	26.00%	5,479
Manoj Rai Pappu	SP	Runner Up	26,163	22.00%
Anil Srivastav	INC	3^rd	19,778	16.00%
Raj Kumar Singh Alias R.k. Singh	BSP	4^th	17,193	14.00%
Ashafaq Ahamed Alias Dabalu	SBSP	5^th	11,787	10.00%
Surendra Kumar Yadav	RJD	7^th	1,481	1.00%
Shyamlal Sharma	IND	8^th	854	1.00%
Ajeet Kumar Dubey	RLD	9^th	730	1.00%
Amarnath	GGP	10^th	686	1.00%
Mithalesh Kumar Bind	RSBP	11^th	525	0.00%
Ravishankar	BPD	12^th	456	0.00%
Vikas Narayan Dubey Tika	NCP	13^th	424	0.00%
Gopal Rai	RKSP	14^th	419	0.00%
Radhey Shyam Singh	PTSS	15^th	404	0.00%
Shankar	IND	16^th	370	0.00%
Kamalesh Kumar Upadhyay	MC	17^th	336	0.00%
Jhabbu Yadav	IND	18^th	303	0.00%
Shiv Narayan Tripathi	IND	19^th	300	0.00%
Gopal Maurya	IND	20^th	292	0.00%
Kewala Devi	IJP	21^th	204	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (2002)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Harish Chand Srivastava (harish Ji)	BJP	Winner	41,426	31.00%	12,697
Manoj Rai Pappu	SP	Runner Up	28,729	22.00%
Mohammad Istaqbal Qreshi Alias Babu Bhai	AD	3^rd	20,915	16.00%
Shatrudra Prakash	INC	4^th	18,041	14.00%
Abhishek Yadav Alias Guddu Yadav	BSP	5^th	15,595	12.00%
Hans Raj	RTKP	6^th	3,013	2.00%
Shankar	IND	7^th	1,215	1.00%
Surya Kumar Gond	GGP	8^th	893	1.00%
Vikash	NCP	9^th	661	1.00%
Champa	IND	10^th	530	0.00%
Malti Goswami	PTSS	11^th	473	0.00%
Ramji	IND	12^th	460	0.00%
Narendra Nath Dubey "adig"	RJD	13^th	445	0.00%
Vikash Narayan Dubey (tika)	SHS	14^th	433	0.00%
Dr. Rakesh Singh	CPI(ML)(L)	15^th	316	0.00%
Rajkumar Sonekar	IND	16^th	260	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1996)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Harish Chandra (harish Ji)	BJP	Winner	55,240	42.00%	28,488
Sunil Kumar Rai	SP	Runner Up	26,752	20.00%
Anil Srivastava	INC	3^rd	25,651	20.00%
Rajendra Singh	JD	4^th	7,879	6.00%
Akaram	AD	5^th	6,360	5.00%
Virendra Kumar	PMSP	6^th	1,348	1.00%
Mukhtar Khan	IND	7^th	1,209	1.00%
Shobha Singh Patel	IND	8^th	858	1.00%
Bhagirathi Saini	IND	9^th	401	0.00%
Shayama Devi	BSP(R)	10^th	376	0.00%
Navneet Kumar	JP	11^th	317	0.00%
Bihari	IND	12^th	311	0.00%
Prem Chandra	BHJS	13^th	282	0.00%
Sanjay Kumar	IND	14^th	248	0.00%
Ashok Kumar	PSSS	15^th	244	0.00%
Manju Lata Singh	IND	16^th	203	0.00%
Vishvajeet Sarkar	IND	17^th	196	0.00%
Yogendra Singh	SJP(R)	18^th	165	0.00%
Jivesh Tivari	IND	19^th	125	0.00%
Prem	IND	20^th	113	0.00%
Harihar	IND	21^th	88	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1993)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Jyotsana	BJP	Winner	51,388	44.00%	16,000
Athar Jamal Lari	JD	Runner Up	35,388	30.00%
Shatrudra Prakash	SP	3^rd	13,559	12.00%
J.p. Singh	INC	4^th	6,437	6.00%
Meera Yadav	LKD	5^th	1,000	1.00%
Navneet Kumar	JP	6^th	869	1.00%
Shyam Narain Pal	BKD	7^th	644	1.00%
Arvind	IND	8^th	503	0.00%
Somaru Ram	BRP	9^th	496	0.00%
Gulab Sonkar	IND	10^th	474	0.00%
Heera Lal	IND	11^th	467	0.00%
Anurag Kaushal	IND	12^th	316	0.00%
Shankar	IND	13^th	278	0.00%
Vijay Kumar	IND	14^th	277	0.00%
Habibulla	IND	15^th	198	0.00%
Somaru	DDP	16^th	179	0.00%
Rajendra	IND	17^th	145	0.00%
Narendra Pratap Verma	IND	18^th	138	0.00%
Badal	IND	19^th	124	0.00%
Devbrat Majumdar	IND	20^th	117	0.00%
Ram Asre	IND	21^th	115	0.00%
Gagari	IND	22^th	113	0.00%
Rajendar	IND	23^th	112	0.00%
Shaukat	IND	24^th	104	0.00%
Jamal	IND	25^th	99	0.00%
Amar Nath Gupta	MCPI	26^th	93	0.00%
Girja	IND	27^th	91	0.00%
Ram Nath	IND	28^th	85	0.00%
Satish Kumar	SHS	29^th	83	0.00%
Vinod Kumar Pandey	ICS	30^th	77	0.00%
Ram Ji	IND	31^th	74	0.00%
Virendra Singh	IND	32^th	69	0.00%
Chhatthu Lal Akela	IND	33^th	55	0.00%
Ashok	SSD	34^th	53	0.00%
Anshadar Misra	IND	35^th	37	0.00%
Lal Bahadur	IND	36^th	31	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1991)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Jyotsana Srivastava	BJP	Winner	31,305	36.00%	5,096
Athat Jamal Lari	JD	Runner Up	26,209	30.00%
Anil Kumr Srivastava	INC	3^rd	10,091	12.00%
Satrudar Prakash	JP	4^th	8,200	9.00%
Mansha Ram	BSP	5^th	2,792	3.00%
Vijay Kumar Bharti	CPI	6^th	2,032	2.00%
Kuniya	LKD	7^th	456	1.00%
Mandvi Prasad	IND	8^th	324	0.00%
Garib	IND	9^th	309	0.00%
Arjun	IND	10^th	239	0.00%
Subhash	IND	11^th	170	0.00%
Mohd. Zafar	IND	12^th	161	0.00%
Parmod Mathur	IND	13^th	147	0.00%
Maha Nand	IND	15^th	146	0.00%
Anshdar	IND	16^th	117	0.00%
Gulab	IND	17^th	110	0.00%
Shiv Shankar	IND	18^th	102	0.00%
Chhattu Ram Akela	IND	19^th	83	0.00%
Om Parkash	IND	20^th	79	0.00%
Rajendar	IND	21^th	71	0.00%
Uma Shankar	IND	22^th	70	0.00%
Udal	DDP	24^th	66	0.00%
Ram Ji	IND	25^th	64	0.00%
Amar Nath Gupta	IND	26^th	56	0.00%
Mahesh	IND	27^th	54	0.00%
Ram Nath	IND	28^th	48	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1989)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Shatrudra Prakash	JD	Winner	35,173	40.00%	18,062
Majumdar	INC	Runner Up	17,111	19.00%
Jyotsana	BJP	3^rd	13,262	15.00%
Mahesh Kumar Yadav	BSP	4^th	5,445	6.00%
Pramod	IND	5^th	3,486	4.00%
Arjun	IND	6^th	2,224	3.00%
Moti Lal Shastri	LKD(B)	7^th	2,198	2.00%
Anil	IND	8^th	1,700	2.00%
Subhash Singh	IND	9^th	684	1.00%
Bihari	IND	10^th	435	0.00%
Virender Pratap	IND	11^th	317	0.00%
Rajender Prasad Singh	IND	12^th	286	0.00%
Somaru	DDP	13^th	239	0.00%
J. P .singh	IND	14^th	231	0.00%
Rajender	IND	15^th	218	0.00%
Rajender	IND	16^th	213	0.00%
Ram Kirath	IND	17^th	184	0.00%
Abdul Rasid	IND	18^th	140	0.00%
Ram Ji Singh	IND	19^th	120	0.00%
Shankar	IND	20^th	105	0.00%
Hori	IND	21^th	79	0.00%
Dinesh	IND	22^th	50	0.00%
Prabhakar	IND	23^th	45	0.00%
Mohan	IND	24^th	43	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1985)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Sharrudh Prakash	LKD	Winner	17,721	32.00%	2,307
Ganesh Prasad Jaiswal	INC	Runner Up	15,414	28.00%
Jetendra Nath Dubey	BJP	3^rd	6,538	12.00%
Moti Lal Patel	CPI	4^th	3,412	6.00%
Channu Lal Shastri	IND	5^th	2,473	4.00%
Ram Naresh	JNP	6^th	2,181	4.00%
Chhotey Lal	ICJ	7^th	1,062	2.00%
Bhagirathi Prasad	IND	8^th	732	1.00%
Prasidh Narain	IND	9^th	627	1.00%
Mustaq Ahmad	IND	10^th	593	1.00%
Vinod	IND	11^th	490	1.00%
Vijendra	IND	12^th	475	1.00%
Mohd. Yunus	IND	13^th	386	1.00%
Pyare Lal	IND	14^th	374	1.00%
Nand Lal Gupta	IND	15^th	347	1.00%
Ram Nath	IND	16^th	298	1.00%
Sri Ram Singh	IND	17^th	230	0.00%
Kahir Alam Ansari	IND	18^th	204	0.00%
Vinod Kumar Pandey	IND	19^th	203	0.00%
Mewa Lal	IND	20^th	196	0.00%
Lachman	IND	21^th	186	0.00%
Khaderan Rai	IND	22^th	149	0.00%
Ravi Shankar	IND	23^th	135	0.00%
Parmanand	IND	24^th	130	0.00%
Kallo Prasad	DDP	25^th	125	0.00%
Jai Prakash	IND	26^th	100	0.00%
Rajendra	IND	27^th	85	0.00%
Shushela	IND	28^th	77	0.00%
Muiuddir	IND	29^th	75	0.00%
Isarjan	IND	30^th	53	0.00%
Narendra Narain	IND	31^th	40	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1980)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Mandavi Prasad Singh	INC(I)	Winner	17,051	34.00%	5,616
Satrudra Prakash	JNP(SR)	Runner Up	11,435	23.00%
Mahendra Nath	BJP	3^rd	6,173	12.00%
Narendra Pratap Verma	JNP(SC)	4^th	4,893	10.00%
Gobardhan Ram	CPI	5^th	3,496	7.00%
Mohd. Rafique Razvi	INC(U)	6^th	2,651	5.00%
Basant	IND	7^th	1,212	2.00%
Nasruddin	IND	8^th	988	2.00%
Vijai Bahadur	JNP(JP)	9^th	484	1.00%
Sri Ram Murat	IND	10^th	423	1.00%
Mohd. Zaffar	IND	11^th	255	1.00%
Ram Lakhan Gupta	IND	12^th	152	0.00%
Vishwa Nath Singh Yadava	IND	13^th	147	0.00%
Bhagat Singh	SSD	14^th	137	0.00%
Khursid Alam	IND	15^th	28	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Assembly election results (1977)

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin
Shatroodh Prakash	JNP	Winner	28,973	58.00%	15,717
Kiran Kumar Sharma	INC	Runner Up	13,256	27.00%
Shivaji	IND	3^rd	4,164	8.00%
Jitendra Nath	IND	4^th	864	2.00%
Indra Bahadur	IND	5^th	755	2.00%
Lachhiman	IND	6^th	450	1.00%
Haridevi Malkani	IND	7^th	265	1.00%
Vishwa Nath	IND	8^th	242	0.00%
Gajendra Bahadur Singh	IND	9^th	167	0.00%
Maheshwar Bahadur Shahstri	IND	10^th	140	0.00%

Varanasi Cantt Past Election Results

Year

Candidate's Name	Party	Level	Votes	Vote Rate %	Margin

2022

Saurabh Shrivastav	BJP	Winner	147,833	60.63%	86,844
Pooja Yadav	SP	Runner Up	60,989	25.01%

2017

Saurabh Srivastava	BJP	Winner	132,609	58.26%	61,326
Anil Srivastava	INC	Runner Up	71,283	31.32%

2012

Jyotsana Srivastava	BJP	Winner	57,918	32%	12,852
Anil Srivastwa	INC	Runner Up	45,066	25%

2007

Dr. Jyotasana Shrivastav	BJP	Winner	31,642	26%	5,479
Manoj Rai Pappu	SP	Runner Up	26,163	22%

2002

Harish Chand Srivastava (harish Ji)	BJP	Winner	41,426	31%	12,697
Manoj Rai Pappu	SP	Runner Up	28,729	22%

1996

Harish Chandra (harish Ji)	BJP	Winner	55,240	42%	28,488
Sunil Kumar Rai	SP	Runner Up	26,752	20%

1993

Jyotsana	BJP	Winner	51,388	44%	16,000
Athar Jamal Lari	JD	Runner Up	35,388	30%

1991

Jyotsana Srivastava	BJP	Winner	31,305	36%	5,096
Athat Jamal Lari	JD	Runner Up	26,209	30%

1989

Shatrudra Prakash	JD	Winner	35,173	40%	18,062
Majumdar	INC	Runner Up	17,111	19%

1985

Sharrudh Prakash	LKD	Winner	17,721	32%	2,307
Ganesh Prasad Jaiswal	INC	Runner Up	15,414	28%

1980

Mandavi Prasad Singh	INC(I)	Winner	17,051	34%	5,616
Satrudra Prakash	JNP(SR)	Runner Up	11,435	23%

1977

Shatroodh Prakash	JNP	Winner	28,973	58%	15,717
Kiran Kumar Sharma	INC	Runner Up	13,256	27%

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Constituencies

Strike Rate

BJP 75%

JD 25%

BJP won 8 times and JD won 1 time since 1977 elections.