Lucknow Central Assembly constituency

Lucknow Central is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly^[1] covering the city of Central part of Lucknow in the Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Lucknow Central
Constituency No. 174 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Lucknow
LS constituency	Lucknow
Total electors	3,70,629
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ravidas Mehrotra
Party	Samajwadi Party
Alliance	SP+
Elected year	2022

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[2]	Party
1952	Syed Ali Zaheer[3]		Indian National Congress
1952^	Harish Chandra Bajpai
1952^	Ram Shankar Rabivasi
1957	Mahabir Prasad Srivastava
1962
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
1993	Ram Prakash Gupta
1996	Suresh Srivastava
2002
2007
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^[4]

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			10,935	5.19	+2.58
Turnout			2,10,567	56.92	+3.77
	SP gain from BJP		Swing	+3.90

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Lucknow Central^[5]

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			5,094	2.61
Turnout			1,95,036	53.15	+2.24
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	+8.03

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh state assembly election: Lucknow Central^[6]

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			22,732	13.45	+9.04
Turnout			1,69,019	50.91	+22.56
	SP gain from BJP		Swing	+8.93

2007

U. P. Assembly Election, 2007: Lucknow Central

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			3,910	4.41	−8.00
Turnout			88,721	28.35	−3.54
	BJP hold		Swing	-0.15

2002

U. P. Assembly Election, 2002: Lucknow Central

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			11,915	12.41	−17.2
Turnout			96,021	31.89	−11.32
	BJP hold		Swing	-8.60

1996

U. P. Assembly Election, 1996: Lucknow Central

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			36,167	29.61	+10.75
Turnout			1,22,179	43.21	−8.89
	BJP hold		Swing	+5.37

1993

U. P. Assembly Election, 1993: Lucknow Central

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
	SHS	Vinod Kumar Singh	630	0.54
Majority			22,118	18.86	−13.36
Turnout			1,17,262	52.10	+21.28
	BJP hold		Swing

1991

U. P. Assembly Election, 1991: Lucknow Central

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			25,100	32.22	+27.1
Turnout			77,911	30.82	+6.28
	BJP hold		Swing

1989

U. P. Assembly Election, 1989: Lucknow Central

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			3,121	5.10
Turnout			61,204	24.54
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

See also

• Lucknow district
• List of constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
2. "Lucknow Central Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. "State Election, 1971 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
4. "State Election, 2022 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
5. "State Election, 2017 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
6. "State Election, 2012 to the Legislative Assembly Of Uttar Pradesh". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 April 2023.