Meerut Cantonment Assembly constituency

Meerut Cantt. Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Meerut district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Meerut Lok Sabha constituency. First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" order was passed and the constituency was constituted in 1956.^[1] The constituency was assigned identification number 47 after the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed.^[2][3] In 1991 elections were not held in this constituency.^[4]

Meerut Cantt.
Constituency No. 47 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Meerut
Established	1956
Total electors	4,19,362 (2019)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Amit Agarwal
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2022

Wards / Areas

Extent of Meerut Cantt. Assembly constituency is Meerut (CB) & Ward Nos. 1, 6 to 9, 18, 23, 26, 30, 32, 37, 40, 44, 52, 59, 61, 63, 64, 66, 67 & 70 in Meerut (M Corp.) of Meerut Tehsil.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[5]	Party
1957	Prakashwati Sood		Indian National Congress
1962
1967	V. Tyagi		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Uma Datt Sharma		Indian National Congress
1974	Ajit Singh Sethi
1977
1980			Indian National Congress (I)
1985			Indian National Congress
1989	Pramatma Sharan Mittal		Bharatiya Janata Party
1991	–
1993	Amit Agarwal		Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
2002	Satya Prakash Agarwal
2007
2012
2017
2022	Amit Agarwal

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Meerut Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Amit Agarwal	162,032	66.27	+10.34
	RLD	Manisha Ahlawat	43,960	17.98	+16.35
	BSP	Amit Sharma	28,519	11.66	−11.93
	INC	Avnish Kajla	5,096	2.08	−14.66
	AAP	Madan Singh Maan	1,257	0.51
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,075	0.44
Majority			1,18,072	48.29
Turnout			2,44,493	56.84
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Meerut Cantonment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satya Prakash Agarwal		55.93	+21.07
	BSP	Satendra Solanki	55,899	23.59	−9.49
	INC	Ramesh Dhingra	39,650	16.74	−5.24
	RLD	Sanjeev Dhama	3,851	1.63	+1.63
	IND.	Vinod Kumar Chaudhary	950	0.40	+0.40
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,110	0.47	+0.47
Margin of victory			76,619	32.34	+30.56
Turnout			2,36,999	58.98	+0.39
	BJP hold		Swing	+21.07

2012

U. P. Legislative Assembly Election, 2012: Meerut Cantt.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Satya Prakash Agarwal	70,820	34.86
	BSP	Sunil Kumar Wadhwa	67,207	33.08
	INC	Ramesh Dhingra	44,659	21.98
	SP	Anil Kumar	9,699	4.77
	IND.	Manjeet Singh Kochher	1,729	0.85
Margin of victory			3,613	1.78
Turnout			2,03,150	58.59
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Meerut Lok Sabha constituency
• Meerut district
• Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

References

1. "DPACO (1956)" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
2. "Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Uttar Pradesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
3. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
4. "All MLAs from Assembly constituency". Elections.in. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
5. "Meerut Cantt. Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.

External links

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