Agra Cantonment Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in India

Agra Cantonment
Constituency for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Agra
Established	1967
Total electors	4,45,265 (2019)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Girraj Singh Dharmesh
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party

Agra Cantonment (a.k.a. Agra Cantt.) is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Agra district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Agra Lok Sabha constituency. First assembly elections in the Agra Cantonment assembly constituency were conducted in 1967 and the extant and serial number of this constituency was last defined in "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008".^[1]^[2] VVPAT facility with EVMs will arrive in the 2017 U.P assembly polls.^[3]

Wards / Areas

Agra Cantt. assembly constituency comprises "Agra CB" and Ward numbers 2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 24, 34, 40, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 54, 60, 65 & 68 in Agra municipal corporation.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name
1967	H.H.N.A.A.H. Babu^[4]	Indian National Congress
1969	Deoki Nandan Bibav^[5]
1974^[6]	Krishna Vir Singh Kaushal
1977^[7]
1980^[8]		Indian National Congress
1985^[9]		Indian National Congress
1989^[10]	Hardwar Dubey	Bharatiya Janata Party
1991^[11]	Hardwar Dubey
1993	Ramesh Kant Lawania^[12]
1996	Kesho Mehra^[13]
2002	Mohammad Basheer^[14]	Bahujan Samaj Party
2007	zulfikar Ahmed Bhutto^[15]
2012	Gutiyari Lal Duwesh^[16]
2017	Girraj Singh Dharmesh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Girraj Singh Dharmesh	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Agra Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Girraj Singh Dharmesh	117,796	46.78	+2.01
	SP	Kunwar Chand Vakil	69,099	27.44	+1.86
	BSP	Bhartendra Arun	54,409	21.61	-4.83
	INC	Sikandar Singh Valmiki	5,590	2.22
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,377	0.95
		NOTA	1,420	0.56
Majority
Turnout			251816
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Agra Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Girraj Singh Dharmesh	1,13,178	44.77	+15.37
	BSP	Gutiyari Lal Duwesh	66,853	26.44	-6.03
	SP	Mamata Kaudan	64,683	25.58	+3.89
		Remaining eleven candidates	6,917	2.73
	None of the Above	NOTA	1,185	0.46
Majority			46,325	18.33	+15.26
Turnout			2,52,850	59.14
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing	-

^[17]

16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Agra Cantonment
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BSP	Gutiyari Lal Duwesh	67,786	32.47	-
	BJP	Girraj Singh Dharmesh	61,371	29.40	-
	SP	Chander Sen	44,684	21.89	-
		Remainder thirteen candidates	33,898	16.24	-
Majority			6,415	3.07	-
Turnout			208,739	54.44	-
	BSP hold		Swing	-

^[18]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
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