Kanpur Cantonment (Assembly constituency)

Kanpur Cantonment Vidhan Sabha constituency(Hindi: कानपुर छावनी विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of 403 legislative assembly seats of the Uttar Pradesh. It is part of the Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency.

Overview

Kanpur Cantonment comprises Kanpur (CB), Northern Railway Colony (CT), Wards No. 17, 23, 56, 58, 70, 75, 81, 84, 93, 97, and 100 in Kanpur Municipal Corporation of 2- Kanpur Sadar Tehsil.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Vidhan Sabha	Duration	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
Fourth	1967-69	Devi Sahai Bajpai	Indian National Congress
Fifth	1969-77	Manohar Lal	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
Sixth	1974-77	Shyam Mishra	Indian National Congress
Seventh	1977-80	Babu Ram Shukla	Janata Party
Eighth	1980-85	Bhudhar Narayan Mishra	Indian National Congress (I)
Ninth	1985-89	Pashupati Nath	Indian National Congress
Tenth	1989-91	Ganesh Dixit	Janata Dal
Eleventh	1991-91	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Twelfth	1993-96	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Thirteenth	1996-2002	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Fourteenth	2002-07	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Fifteenth	2007-12	Satish Mahana	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sixteenth	2012-Incumbent	Raghunandan Bhadauria	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2012

Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 2012: Kanpur Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raghunandan Singh Bhadauria	42,551	29.48
	SP	Mohammad Hassan Roomi	33,243	23.03
	INC	Abdul Mannan Ansari	31,122	21.56
	BSP	Sohil Akhtar Ansari	26,205	18.15
	PECP	Mohammad Tahir Ansari	5,371	3.72
Majority			9,308	6.45
Turnout			1,44,351	48.46
	BJP hold		Swing

2007

Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 2007: Kanpur Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	47,381	46.73
	SP	Mehtab Alam	20,845	20.56
	INC	Ganesh Dixit	15,935	15.72
	BSP	Narendra Singh	13,375	13.19
	Independent	Raju Sonker	1,089	1.07
Majority			26,536	26.17
Turnout			1,01,394	40.39
	BJP hold		Swing

2002

Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 2002: Kanpur Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	45,839	45.88
	INC	Girish Kumar Trivedi	35,774	35.81
	SP	Som Chandra Gupta	12,502	12.51
	BSP	Mahammed Haneef	3,578	3.58
	Independent	Vakeel	700	0.70
Majority			10,065	10.07
Turnout			99,909	37.00
	BJP hold		Swing

1996

Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 1996: Kanpur Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	64,578	59.51
	BSP	Ashok Kumar Kaalia	23,087	21.27
	SP	Ganesh Awasthi	19,927	18.39
	ABHM	Pravin Gopal Jee	367	0.34
	Natural Law	Asim Alam	214	0.20
Majority			41,491	38.24
Turnout			1,08,498	42.37
	BJP hold		Swing

1993

Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 1993: Kanpur Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	59,013	52.19
	SP	Ganesh Dixit	36,208	32.08
	INC	Sriprakash Jaiswal	15,679	13.87
	Janata Dal	Laxmi Shankar	826	0.73
	Janata Party	Devendra Kumar	209	0.18
Majority			22,805	20.11
Turnout			1,13,069	55.09
	BJP hold		Swing

1991

Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 1991: Kanpur Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satish Mahana	33,897	44.60
	INC	Shyam Mishra	17,927	23.59
	Independent	Ganesh Dixit	12,661	16.66
	Janata Party	Deepak Kumar	7,703	10.14
	BSP	Naseem Ahmed	2,793	3.68
Majority			15,970	21.01
Turnout			76,000	37.46
	BJP gain from Janata Dal		Swing

 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 2012
Kanpur Lok Sabha Constituency Summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Bharatiya Janata Party	3	1
Samajwadi Party	1	0
Indian National Congress	1	1
Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0

See also

• List of Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh