# Lucknow Central Assembly constituency

Lucknow Central is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Central part of Lucknow in the Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Lucknow Central is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lucknow. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 174 amongst 403 constituencies.
Currently, this seat belongs to the SP candidate Ravidas Mehrotra who won in last Assembly election of 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating BJP candidate Rajnish Kumar Gupta by a margin of 10,935 votes.

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Year | Member | Party |
| 1952 | Syed Ali Zaheer | Indian National Congress |
| 1952^ | Harish Chandra Bajpai | Indian National Congress |
| 1952^ | Ram Shankar Rabivasi | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Mahabir Prasad Srivastava | Indian National Congress |
| 1962 | Mahabir Prasad Srivastava | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | S. K. Vidyarthi | Bharatiya Jana Sangh |
| 1969 | Imitiaz Husain | Bharatiya Kranti Dal |
| 1974 | Ramesh Chandra Srivastava | Indian National Congress |
| 1977 | Ram Prakash | Janata Party |
| 1980 | Mohammad Rafi Siddiqui | Indian National Congress (I) |
| 1985 | Naresh Chandra | Indian National Congress |
| 1989 | Basant Lal Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1991 | Basant Lal Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1993 | Ram Prakash Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1996 | Suresh Srivastava | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2002 | Suresh Srivastava | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2007 | Suresh Srivastava | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2012 | Ravidas Mehrotra | Samajwadi Party |
| 2017 | Brajesh Pathak | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2022 | Ravidas Mehrotra | Samajwadi Party |

## Election results
### 2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | SP | Ravidas Mehrotra | 1,04,488 | 49.62 | +12.03 |
| | BJP | Rajnish Kumar Gupta | 93,553 | 44.43 | +4.23 |
| | BSP | Ashish Chandra | 6,181 | 2.94 | −9.66 |
| | INC | Sadaf Jafar | 2,927 | 1.39 | −5.23 |
| | AAP | Nadeem Ashraf | 754 | 0.36 | N/A |
| | AIMIM | Salman Siddique | 623 | 0.3 | −0.88 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 960 | 0.46 | +0.04 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 10,935 | 5.19 | +2.58 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,10,567 | 56.92 | +3.77 |
| | SP gain from BJP | SP gain from BJP | Swing | +3.90 | |

### 2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Brajesh Pathak | 78,400 | 40.20 | +16.60 |
| | SP | Ravidas Mehrotra | 73,306 | 37.59 | +0.54 |
| | BSP | Rajeev Srivastava | 24,313 | 12.46 | −1.71 |
| | INC | Abdul Maroof Khan | 12,921 | 6.62 | −14.46 |
| | AIMIM | Mohammad Irfan | 2,314 | 1.18 | N/A |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 824 | 0.42 | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 5,094 | 2.61 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,95,036 | 53.15 | +2.24 |
| | BJP gain from SP | BJP gain from SP | Swing | +8.03 | |

### 2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh state assembly election: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | SP | Ravidas Mehrotra | 62,622 | 37.05 | +6.67 |
| | BJP | Vidya Sagar Gupta | 39,890 | 23.60 | −11.19 |
| | INC | Fakhir Siddiqui | 35,623 | 21.08 | +5.17 |
| | BSP | Mohammad Naseem Siddiqui | 23,956 | 14.17 | −1.48 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 22,732 | 13.45 | +9.04 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,69,019 | 50.91 | +22.56 |
| | SP gain from BJP | SP gain from BJP | Swing | +8.93 | |

### 2007

U. P. Assembly Election, 2007: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Suresh Kumar Srivastava | 30,872 | 34.79 | −4.15 |
| | SP | Ravidas Mehrotra | 26,962 | 30.38 | +3.85 |
| | INC | Manjoor Ahmad | 14,123 | 15.91 | +1.84 |
| | BSP | Nagendra Mohan | 13,892 | 15.65 | +5.88 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 3,910 | 4.41 | −8.00 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 88,721 | 28.35 | −3.54 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | -0.15 | |

### 2002

U. P. Assembly Election, 2002: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Suresh Kumar Srivastava | 37,388 | 38.94 | −20.27 |
| | SP | Banware Lal Kanchal | 25,473 | 26.53 | −3.07 |
| | INC | Sushil Dubey | 13,513 | 14.07 | |
| | BSP | Mohammad Gayasuddin Hashmi | 9,381 | 9.77 | −0.63 |
| | RTKP | Kusum Rai | 6,622 | 6.90 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 11,915 | 12.41 | −17.2 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 96,021 | 31.89 | −11.32 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | -8.60 | |

### 1996

U. P. Assembly Election, 1996: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Suresh Kumar Srivastava | 72,338 | 59.21 | +5.15 |
| | SP | Waliullah Javed | 36,171 | 29.60 | −5.60 |
| | BSP | Umesh Chandra | 12,705 | 10.40 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 36,167 | 29.61 | +10.75 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,22,179 | 43.21 | −8.89 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | +5.37 | |

### 1993

U. P. Assembly Election, 1993: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Ram Prakash | 63,396 | 54.06 | −2.09 |
| | SP | Vinod Behari Verma | 41,278 | 35.20 | |
| | INC | Mohammad Rafi Siddiqui | 8,528 | 7.27 | −9.04 |
| | JD | Kamal Khan | 1,415 | 1.21 | −0.58 |
| | SS | Vinod Kumar Singh | 630 | 0.54 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 22,118 | 18.86 | −13.36 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,17,262 | 52.10 | +21.28 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | | |

### 1991

U. P. Assembly Election, 1991: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Basant Lal Gupta | 43,744 | 56.15 | +21.39 |
| | JP | Musheer Ahmad Lari | 18,644 | 23.93 | |
| | INC | Naresh Chandra | 10,607 | 13.61 | −11.27 |
| | JD | Abdul Hakeem | 1,394 | 1.79 | −27.9 |
| | BSP | Sayed Sikander Abbas Rizvi | 1,181 | 1.52 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 25,100 | 32.22 | +27.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 77,911 | 30.82 | +6.28 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | | |

### 1989

U. P. Assembly Election, 1989: Lucknow Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BJP | Basant Lal Gupta | 21,272 | 34.76 |
| | JD | Musheer Ahmad Lari | 18,151 | 29.66 |
| | INC | Naresh Chandra | 13,758 | 22.48 |
| | CPI | Ram Kishor Sharma | 1,550 | 2.53 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 3,121 | 5.10 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 61,204 | 24.54 |
| | BJP gain from INC | BJP gain from INC | Swing | |