Kanpur Cantonment Assembly constituency

Kanpur Cantonment Assembly constituency is one of 403 legislative assembly seats of the Uttar Pradesh. It is part of the Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency.

Kanpur Cantonment
Constituency No. 216 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Kanpur Nagar
Total electors	3,74,262 (2024)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mohammad Hassan Roomi
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Overview

Kanpur Cantonment comprises Kanpur (CB), Northern Railway Colony (CT), Wards No. 17, 23, 56, 58, 70, 75, 81, 84, 93, 97, 99 and 100 in Kanpur Municipal Corporation of 2- Kanpur Sadar Tehsil.^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1967	Devi Sahai Bajpai		Indian National Congress
1969	Manohar Lal		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1974	Shyam Mishra		Indian National Congress
1977	Babu Ram Shukla		Janata Party
1980	Bhudhar Narayan Mishra		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Pashupati Nath Mehrotra		Indian National Congress
1989	Ganesh Dixit		Janata Dal
1991	Satish Mahana		Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996
2002
2007
2012	Raghunandan Singh Bhadauria
2017	Sohil Akhtar Ansari		Indian National Congress
2022	Mohammad Hassan Roomi		Samajwadi Party

Election results

2022

U. P. Assembly Election, 2022: Kanpur Cantt.^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Mohammad Hassan Roomi	94,729	49.99	+46.62
	BJP	Raghunandan Singh Bhadauriya	74,742	39.44	−1.25
	INC	Sohil Akhtar Ansari	13,279	7.01	−38.99
	BSP	Mohammad Shafi	3,389	1.79	−6.19
	NOTA	None of the above	740	0.39	−0.02
Majority			19,987	10.55	+5.24
Turnout			189,492	52.37	−0.21
	SP gain from INC		Swing	+3.99

2017

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Kanpur Cantonment^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sohil Akhtar Ansari	81,169	46.0
	BJP	Raghunandan Singh Bhadauria	71,805	40.69
	BSP	Dr.Naseem Ahmad	14,079	7.98
	SP	Mohammad Hassan Roomi	5,954	3.37
	NOTA	None of the above	729	0.41
Majority			9,364	5.31
Turnout			176,462	52.58
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	+16.52

2012

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 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

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 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

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 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

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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

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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
	JD	Laxmi Shankar	826	0.73
	JP	Devendra Kumar	209	0.18
Majority			22,805	20.11
Turnout			1,13,069	55.09
	BJP hold		Swing

1991

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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
	JP	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 JD		Swing

1989

U. P. Assembly Election, 1989: Kanpur Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Ganesh Dixit	29,511	38.46
	INC	Pashupati Nath Mehrotra	21,930	28.58
	BJP	Hari Dixit	16,566	21.59
	Independent	Babu Ram Shukla	4,623	6.03
	BSP	Shiv Prasad	2,606	3.40
Majority			7,581	9.88
Turnout			76,727	38.21
	JD gain from INC		Swing

1985

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 1985: Kanpur Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Pashupati Nath	25,551	65.15
	LKD	Laxmi Shanker	7,561	19.28
	BJP	Virbhadra Misra	4,279	10.91
	JP	Deen Dayal	548	1.40
	Independent	Ateekur Rahman	400	1.02
Majority			17,990	45.87
Turnout			39,216	27.60
	INC hold		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017
Kanpur Lok Sabha Constituency Summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Bharatiya Janata Party	2	1
Samajwadi Party	2	1
Indian National Congress	1	0
Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0

See also

• List of Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh