Varanasi Cantt. is assembly constituency number 390 in Uttar Pradesh, in Varanasi district, and one of the segments of the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. In the 2022 election Saurabh Srivastava of the Bharatiya Janata Party won with 60.6% of the vote, 86,844 votes ahead of Pooja Yadav (SP).
- 01Saurabh SrivastavaBJP1,47,83360.63%
- 02Pooja YadavSP60,98925.01%
- 03Rajesh Kumar MishraINC23,8079.76%
- 04Kaoshik Kumar PandeyBSP7,0682.90%
- 05Rakesh PandeyAAP1,1650.48%
- 4 other candidates · 1,437 votesNOTA · 1,522 (0.62%)
Margin 86,844 votes · 35.62% of valid votes
All 9 candidates, ranked by votes. Vote share is of the 2,43,821 valid votes, NOTA included.
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saurabh SrivastavaMale · 46 yrs | BJP | 1,47,833 | 60.63% |
| 2 | Pooja YadavFemale · 34 yrs | SP | 60,989 | 25.01% |
| 3 | Rajesh Kumar MishraMale · 61 yrs | INC | 23,807 | 9.76% |
| 4 | Kaoshik Kumar PandeyMale · 51 yrs | BSP | 7,068 | 2.90% |
| — | NOTA | NOTA | 1,522 | 0.62% |
| 5 | Rakesh PandeyMale · 44 yrs | AAP | 1,165 | 0.48% |
| 6 | Santosh Kumar MauryaMale · 47 yrs | JANADIP | 560 | 0.23% |
| 7 | Sahid ChaudhariMale · 32 yrs | Independent | 353 | 0.14% |
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| 8 | Shrikant AryaMale · 27 yrs · SC | BMUP | 309 | 0.13% |
| 9 | Sheikh AmbarMale · 33 yrs | RJBVP | 215 | 0.09% |
BJP held the seat: it also won in 2017.
General elections since the 2008 delimitation. Results from before the current boundaries are not compared.
Varanasi Cantt. result 2017
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saurabh Srivastava | BJP | 1,32,609 | 58.26% |
| 2 | Anil Srivastava | INC | 71,283 | 31.32% |
| 3 | Rijwan Ahmad | BSP | 14,118 | 6.20% |
| 4 | Ajoy Mukherjee | CPI | 1,515 | 0.67% |
| 5 | Dhurandhar Singh | Independent | 991 | 0.44% |
| 6 | Ajay Kumar Singh | SAJPCS | 765 | 0.34% |
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| — | NOTA | NOTA | 758 | 0.33% |
| 7 | Vinod Kumar Nishad "guru" | NISHAD | 631 | 0.28% |
| 8 | Mrityunjai Verma | NCP | 601 | 0.26% |
| 9 | Ram Prakash Ojha | Independent | 555 | 0.24% |
| 10 | Ganesh Shankar Chaturvedi | Independent | 469 | 0.21% |
| 11 | Bhuvaneshwar Dwivedi Urf Baba | Independent | 424 | 0.19% |
| 12 | Chandan Urf Ram Renu Chandan Advocate | MADP | 381 | 0.17% |
| 13 | Sanjay Bajaj | NJAP | 288 | 0.13% |
| 14 | Shankar Prasad | RTSJP | 279 | 0.12% |
| 15 | Sunil Kumar Shukla | Independent | 263 | 0.12% |
| 16 | Suraj | BHAKALP | 254 | 0.11% |
| 17 | Parvez Quadir Khan | IEMC | 252 | 0.11% |
| 18 | Panna Lal Yadav | Independent | 239 | 0.11% |
| 19 | Satish Kumar | SSCP | 216 | 0.09% |
| 20 | Shatrughan | AACP | 195 | 0.09% |
| 21 | Sunil Kumar Maurya | Independent | 160 | 0.07% |
| 22 | Muhammad Akram | Independent | 137 | 0.06% |
| 23 | Mahesh Chandra Sharma | Independent | 111 | 0.05% |
| 24 | Vijay Shankar Pandey | Independent | 106 | 0.05% |
Varanasi Cantt. result 2012
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jyotsana Srivastava | BJP | 57,918 | 32.05% |
| 2 | Anil Srivastwa | INC | 45,066 | 24.94% |
| 3 | Ashfaq Ahmad Alias Dablu | SP | 37,922 | 20.99% |
| 4 | Chandra Kumar Mishra Alias Guddu Maharaj | BSP | 22,162 | 12.27% |
| 5 | Mohd. Saleem | QED | 5,366 | 2.97% |
| 6 | Vikash | AD | 1,800 | 1.00% |
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| 7 | Shiv Kumar | PMSP | 1,599 | 0.88% |
| 8 | Shambhu Nath Batul | TMC | 1,107 | 0.61% |
| 9 | Ramakant Tripathi | Independent | 900 | 0.50% |
| 10 | Rohit Yadav | RLM | 877 | 0.49% |
| 11 | Anil Kumar Pandey | RSMD | 659 | 0.36% |
| 12 | Satya Prakash Srivastava | Independent | 645 | 0.36% |
| 13 | Aflatoon | SWJP | 632 | 0.35% |
| 14 | Sadabrij | SSD | 593 | 0.33% |
| 15 | Vinod Kumar | JaKP | 529 | 0.29% |
| 16 | Laljee Chakrawal | LPSP | 504 | 0.28% |
| 17 | Seema | BSA | 466 | 0.26% |
| 18 | Ranjit Upadhyay | SM | 392 | 0.22% |
| 19 | Parvez Quadir Khan | Independent | 382 | 0.21% |
| 20 | Aditya Kumar | Independent | 269 | 0.15% |
| 21 | Ram Chandar Yadav | DSP | 251 | 0.14% |
| 22 | Ardhendu Shekhar Tiwari | LJP | 249 | 0.14% |
| 23 | Ravi Singh | JMM | 215 | 0.12% |
| 24 | Mohammad Javed | Independent | 186 | 0.10% |
Varanasi Cantt. outlined in orange among the other Uttar Pradesh seats, coloured by the party that won each in 2022. Click any seat to open its page.
Other seats in Varanasi district
Boundaries are approximate (DataMeet, from ECI polling-station maps) and are for orientation only.
Varanasi Cantt. is one of the assembly segments of Varanasi. These are the EVM votes counted in this segment for the leading Varanasi candidates.
- Narendra ModiBJP1,45,922 61.1%
- Ajay RaiINC87,645 36.7%
- Ather Jamal LariBSP3,423 1.4%
- Kolisetty Shiva KumarYGATLSIP810 0.3%
- Gagan Prakash YadavAPNDLK566 0.2%
In the assembly election BJP won this seat. In the Lok Sabha vote, BJP led here by 58,277 EVM votes.
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Answers use the official Election Commission of India results for Varanasi Cantt..
Who won the Varanasi Cantt. assembly seat in 2022?
Saurabh Srivastava of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won Varanasi Cantt. in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election with 1,47,833 votes, which was 60.63% of the valid votes polled.
What was the victory margin in Varanasi Cantt.?
The margin was 86,844 votes (35.62% of valid votes). The runner-up was Pooja Yadav of the Samajwadi Party with 60,989 votes.
What was the voter turnout in Varanasi Cantt. in 2022?
Turnout was 53.09%: 2,43,847 of 4,59,277 registered electors voted, across 458 polling stations. That is 2.1 points lower than in 2017.
Which Lok Sabha constituency is Varanasi Cantt. part of?
Varanasi Cantt. is an assembly segment of the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi got the most EVM votes in this segment.
Is Varanasi Cantt. a reserved constituency?
No. Varanasi Cantt. is a general (unreserved) seat, so any eligible candidate can contest.
When is the next assembly election in Varanasi Cantt.?
The Uttar Pradesh assembly elected in 2022 completes its five-year term in 2027, so the next general election is due by then unless the assembly is dissolved early. The Election Commission of India announces the exact schedule.
Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections of 2022 and 2017 and 2012 (2022 report) — detailed results and constituency data summary. Lok Sabha figures: ECI 2024 report 34, assembly segment details. Vote share is of valid votes including NOTA. Party names as listed by ECI. Candidate names are shown as filed; spelling follows ECI.
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