Agra Cantonment Assembly constituency

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]

Agra Cantonment
Constituency No. 87 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

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

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Agra Cantonment^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Girraj Singh Dharmesh	117,796	46.78	+2.01
	SP	Kunwar Chand Vakil	69,099	27.44	+1.85
	BSP	Bhartendra Arun	54,409	21.61	−4.83
	INC	Sikandar Singh Valmiki	5,590	2.22
	NOTA	None of the above	1,420	0.56	+0.09
Majority			48,697	19.34	+1.01
Turnout			251,816	53.9	−5.23
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Agra Cantonment^[18][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Girraj Singh Dharmesh	113,178	44.77
	BSP	Gutiyari Lal Duwesh	66,853	26.44
	SP	Mamata Kaudan	64,683	25.59
	NOTA	None of the above	1,185	0.47
Majority			46,325	18.33
Turnout			252,816	59.13
	BJP gain from BSP		Swing	-

2012

2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Agra Cantonment^[20]

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	-

See also

• India portal
• Politics portal

• Agra district
• Agra (Graduates constituency)
• Agra Lok Sabha constituency
• List of constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly