Lucknow East Assembly constituency

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]

Lucknow East
Constituency No. 173 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Lucknow
Lok Sabha constituency	Lucknow
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent O. P. Srivastava
Party	BJP
Elected year	2024

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.

Overview

The constituency has a preponderance of voters belonging to Kayastha and Bhrahmin in population, in this constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Chandra Bhanu Gupta		Indian National Congress
1957	Triloki Singh		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Kishori Lal Agarwal		Indian National Congress
1967	Radhey Shyam Kapoor		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969	Bans Gopal Shukla		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1974	Swaroop 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
2024^	O. P. Srivastava

^ denotes bypoll

Election results

2024 by-election

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election, 2024: Lucknow East^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	O. P. Srivastava	142,948	58.43	0.97
	INC	Mukesh Chauhan	89,061	36.41	34.67
	BSP	Alok Kushwaha	8,323	3.4	0.42
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,707	1.11	0.49
Majority			53,887	22.02	4.68
Turnout			2,44,634	52.48	3.79
	BJP hold		Swing

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ashutosh Tandon	152,928	59.40
	SP	Anurag Bhadouria	84,197	32.70
	BSP	Aashish Sinha	9,834	3.82
	INC	Manoj Tiwari	4,485	1.74
	AAP	Alok Singh	2,680	1.04
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,595	0.62
Majority			68,731	26.70
Turnout			2,57,468	56.27
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ashutosh Tandon	135,167	59.25	+7.20
	INC	Anurag Bhadouria	55,937	24.52	+17.43
	BSP	Saroj Kumar Shukla	31,390	13.76	+13.76
	RLD	Rohit Agarwal	921	0.40	+0.40
	AIFB	Akhilesh Kumar Singh	512	0.22	+0.22
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,747	0.76	−0.24
Majority			79,230	34.73	+15.50
Turnout			2,28,115	53.95	+20.89
	BJP hold		Swing	+7.20

2014

By-election, 2014: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ashutosh Tandon	71,640	52.05	+15.74
	SP	Juhie Singh	45,181	32.82	+7.51
	INC	Ramesh Srivastava	9,757	7.09	−11.52
	Independent	Shiv Pal Singh	7,115	5.17	+5.17
	CPI	Rajpal	876	0.64	+0.64
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,379	1.00	+1.00
Majority			26,459	19.23	+8.23
Turnout			1,37,643	33.06	−20.05
	BJP hold		Swing	+15.74

2012

U. P. Assembly Election, 2012: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kalraj Mishra	68,726	36.31	+8.22
	SP	Juhie Singh	47,908	25.31	−1.84
	INC	Ramesh Srivastava	35,227	18.61	−1.89
	BSP	Krishna Chandra Tripathi	28,040	14.82	−6.11
	BJSWP	Murtaz Ali	2,348	1.24	+1.24
Majority			20,818	11.00	+10.06
Turnout			1,89,267	53.11	+21.57
	BJP hold		Swing	+10.06

2007

U. P. Assembly Election, 2007: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vidya Sagar Gupta	18,892	28.08
	SP	Fakhir Siddiqui	18,261	27.14
	BSP	Gopal Narayan Misra	14,076	20.92
	INC	Sudhir S. Halwasiya	13,786	20.49
	RLD	Aparna Singh	347	0.51
Majority			631	0.94
Turnout			67,264	31.54
	BJP hold		Swing

2002

U. P. Assembly Election, 2002: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vidya Sagar Gupta	23,429	33.31
	SP	Ravidas Mehrotra	23,090	32.82
	INC	Kush Bhargava	9,728	13.83
	Independent	Amit Puri	8,619	12.25
	BSP	Mohammad Yunus	3,055	4.34
Majority			339	0.49
Turnout			70,345	31.14
	BJP hold		Swing

1996

U. P. Assembly Election, 1996: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vidya Sagar Gupta	49,653	66.74
	AIIC(T)	Azad Sarwan Kumar Agrawal	13,033	17.52
	BSP	Swadesh Kumar	8,489	11.41
	CPI	Rajendra Kumar Shukla	1,918	2.58
	SS	Anup Kumar Awasthi	612	0.82
Majority			36,620	49.22
Turnout			74,403	34.70
	BJP hold		Swing

1993

U. P. Assembly Election, 1993: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bhagwati Prasad Shukla	48,121	54.05
	SP	Luv Bhargava	27,442	30.83
	INC	Deepa Kaul	11,128	12.50
	JD	Fareed Ahmad Siddiqui	536	0.60
	SS	Mragendra Kumar Pandey	202	0.23
Majority			20,679	23.22
Turnout			89,023	52.94
	BJP hold		Swing

1991

U. P. Assembly Election, 1991: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Bhagwati Prasad Shukla	36,605	55.51
	INC	Swaroop Kumari Bakshi	12,193	18.49
	JP	Vijay Shankar	9,068	13.75
	JD	Ravidas Mehrotra	4,665	7.07
	BSP	Jitendra Hari Prasad	1,115	1.69
Majority			24,412	37.02
Turnout			65,941	28.67
	BJP gain from JD		Swing

1989

U. P. Assembly Election, 1989: Lucknow East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Ravidas Mehrotra	23,966	41.68
	INC	Swaroop Kumari Bakshi	17,053	29.66
	BJP	Bhagwati Prasad Shukla	10,764	18.72
	Independent	Krishan Kumar	1,733	3.01
	Independent	Israr Ahmad	1,128	1.96
Majority			6,913	12.02
Turnout			57,504	25.36
	JD gain from INC		Swing

References

1. "Machines to rule out fraud, confusion at upcoming UP polls". The Times of India.
2. "Lucknow East Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. Election Commission of India (4 June 2024). "2024 Bye Election Results - Lucknow East". Archived from the original on 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.

External links

• "Election results of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.