# 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 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 constituency is represented by Brajesh Pathak, who won in 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. The current MLA of this constituency is also serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of the state.

## Members of Legislative Assembly

| Year | Member | Party |
| 1957 | Shyam Manohar Misra | Indian National Congress |
| 1962 | Balak Ram Vaish | Indian National Congress |
| 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 | Premavati Tiwari | Indian National Congress |
| 1989 | Premavati Tiwari | Indian National Congress |
| 1991 | Satish Bhatia | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1993 | Satish Bhatia | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 1996 | Suresh Chandra Tiwari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2002 | Suresh Chandra Tiwari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2007 | Suresh Chandra Tiwari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2012 | Rita Bahuguna Joshi | Indian National Congress |
| 2017 | Rita Bahuguna Joshi | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2019^ | Suresh Chandra Tiwari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2022 | Brajesh Pathak | Bharatiya Janata Party |
^ denotes bypoll

## Election results
### 2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | BJP | Brajesh Pathak | 1,08,147 | 54.7 | +9.8 |
| | SP | Surendra Singh Gandhi 'Raju Gandhi' | 68,635 | 34.71 | +1.84 |
| | BSP | Anil Pandey | 10,426 | 5.27 | −8.62 |
| | INC | Dilpreet Singh Virk | 6,510 | 3.29 | − |
| | AAP | Ajay Kumar | 1,614 | 0.82 | − |
| | NOTA | NOTA | 1,217 | 0.62 | +0.01 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 39,512 | 19.99 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,97,833 | 53.74 | |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | {{{swing}}} | |

### 2019 by election

2019 By-election: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 35,428 | 31.89 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,11,079 | 28.81 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 |
| | SS | Kunwar Gaurav Upadhyay | 397 | 0.21 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 1,150 | 0.61 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 33,796 | 18.03 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,87,581 | 50.93 |
| | BJP gain from INC | BJP gain from INC | Swing | |

### 2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh state assembly election: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 21,753 | 13.44 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,61,890 | 50.47 |
| | INC gain from BJP | INC gain from BJP | Swing | |

### 2007

2007 Uttar Pradesh state assembly election: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 5,376 | 5.43 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 98,951 | 29.64 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 2002

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2002: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 15,347 | 17.05 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 90,020 | 31.48 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 1996

U. P. Legislative Assembly Elections, 1996: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 43,786 | 45.19 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 96,888 | 36.46 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 1993

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1993 Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 22,046 | 23.47 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 93,920 | 48.86 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | |

### 1991

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1991: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 16,356 | 27.05 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 60,468 | 27.69 |
| | BJP gain from INC | BJP gain from INC | Swing | |

### 1989

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1989: Lucknow Cantonment :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 2,059 | 3.64 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 56,570 | 26.54 |
| | INC hold | INC hold | Swing | |