Lucknow East (Assembly constituency)

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Lucknow East
Constituency details
Country India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Lucknow
LS constituency Lucknow
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA Ashutosh Tandon
Party BJP
Alliance NDA
Elected year2022

Lucknow East is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Eastern part of Lucknow in the Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India. A Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) facility with EVMs was used here in 2017 U.P assembly polls. [1]

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Lucknow East is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lucknow (Lok Sabha constituency) Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 173 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ashutosh Tandon who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Anurag Bhadouria by a margin of 79,230 votes. [2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

YearMemberPolitical Party
1951 Chandra Bhanu Gupta Indian National Congress
1957 Triloki Singh Praja Socialist Party
1962Kishori Lal Agarwal Indian National Congress
1967Radhey Shyam Kapoor Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969Bans Gopal Shukla Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1974Swaroop Kumari Bakshi Indian National Congress
1977
1980 Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1989 Ravidas Mehrotra Janata Dal
1991 Bhagwati Prasad Shukla Bharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996 Vidya Sagar Gupta
2002
2007
2012 Kalraj Mishra
2014 Ashutosh Tandon
2017
2022

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election:
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AAP Alok Singh [3]

2017

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Ashutosh Tandon (Gopal Ji) 1,35,16759.25+7.20
INC Dr. Anurag Singh Bhadouria 55,93724.52+17.43
BSP Saroj Kumar Shukla31,39013.76+13.76
RLD Rohit Agarwal9210.40+0.40
AIFB Akhilesh Kumar Singh5120.22+0.22
NOTA None of the Above 1,7470.76-0.24
Majority79,23034.73+15.50
Turnout 2,28,11553.95+20.89
BJP hold Swing +7.20

2014

Bye-election, 2014: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Ashutosh Tandon (Gopal Ji)71,64052.05+15.74
SP Juhie Singh45,18132.82+7.51
INC Ramesh Srivastava9,7577.09-11.52
Independent Shiv Pal Singh7,1155.17+5.17
CPI Rajpal8760.64+0.64
NOTA None of the Above 1,3791.00+1.00
Majority26,45919.23+8.23
Turnout 1,37,64333.06-20.05
BJP hold Swing +15.74

2012

U. P. Assembly Election, 2012: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Kalraj Mishra 68,72636.31+8.22
SP Juhie Singh47,90825.31-1.84
INC Ramesh Srivastava35,22718.61-1.89
BSP Krishna Chandra Tripathi28,04014.82-6.11
BJSWP Murtaz Ali2,3481.24+1.24
Majority20,81811.00+10.06
Turnout 1,89,26753.11+21.57
BJP hold Swing +10.06
U. P. Assembly Election, 2007: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Vidya Sagar Gupta18,89228.08
SP Fakhir Siddiqui18,26127.14
BSP Gopal Narayan Misra14,07620.92
INC Sudhir S. Halwasiya13,78620.49
RLD Aparna Singh3470.51
Majority6310.94
Turnout 67,26431.54
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 2002: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Vidya Sagar Gupta23,42933.31
SP Ravidas Mehrotra23,09032.82
INC Kush Bhargava9,72813.83
Independent Amit Puri8,61912.25
BSP Mohammad Yunus3,0554.34
Majority3390.49
Turnout 70,34531.14
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 1996: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Vidya Sagar Gupta49,65366.74
AIIC(T) Azad Sarwan Kumar Agrawal13,03317.52
BSP Swadesh Kumar8,48911.41
CPI Rajendra Kumar Shukla1,9182.58
SHS Anup Kumar Awasthi6120.82
Majority36,62049.22
Turnout 74,40334.70
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 1993: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Bhagwati Prasad Shukla48,12154.05
SP Luv Bhargava27,44230.83
INC Deepa Kaul11,12812.50
JD Fareed Ahmad Siddiqui5360.60
SHS Mragendra Kumar Pandey2020.23
Majority20,67923.22
Turnout 89,02352.94
BJP hold Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 1991: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Bhagwati Prasad Shukla36,60555.51
INC Swaroop Kumari Bakshi12,19318.49
JP Vijay Shankar9,06813.75
JD Ravidas Mehrotra4,6657.07
BSP Jitendra Hari Prasad1,1151.69
Majority24,41237.02
Turnout 65,94128.67
BJP gain from JD Swing
U. P. Assembly Election, 1989: Lucknow East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD babu lal yadav23,96641.68
INC Swaroop Kumari Bakshi17,05329.66
BJP Bhagwati Prasad Shukla10,76418.72
Independent Krishan Kumar1,7333.01
Independent Israr Ahmad1,1281.96
Majority6,91312.02
Turnout 57,50425.36
JD gain from INC Swing

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