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
CountryIndia
RegionNorth India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictLucknow
LS constituencyLucknow
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBJP
AllianceNDA
Elected year2022

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
Year Member Political Party
1951Chandra Bhanu GuptaIndian National Congress
1957Triloki SinghPraja Socialist Party
1962Kishori Lal AgarwalIndian National Congress
1967Radhey Shyam KapoorBharatiya Jana Sangh
1969Bans Gopal ShuklaBharatiya Kranti Dal
1974Swaroop Kumari BakshiIndian National Congress
1977
1980Indian National Congress (I)
1985Indian National Congress
1989Ravidas MehrotraJanata Dal
1991Bhagwati Prasad ShuklaBharatiya Janata Party
1993
1996Vidya Sagar Gupta
2002
2007
2012Kalraj Mishra
2014Ashutosh Tandon
2017
2022

Election results

2022
2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Lucknow East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ashutosh Tandon (Gopal Ji)[3] 1,51,994 59.4
SP Anurag Bhadouria
BSP Ashish Kumar Sinha
INC Manoj Tiwari
Azad Samajh Party (Bhim Army) Avinash Bharti
AAP Alok Singh [4]
Majority
Turnout

2017
U. P. Assembly Election, 2017: Lucknow East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ashutosh Tandon (Gopal Ji) 1,35,167 59.25 +7.20
INC Dr. Anurag Singh 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 (Gopal Ji) 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
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
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
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
SHS Anup Kumar Awasthi 612 0.82
Majority 36,620 49.22
Turnout 74,403 34.70
BJP hold Swing
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
SHS Mragendra Kumar Pandey 202 0.23
Majority 20,679 23.22
Turnout 89,023 52.94
BJP hold Swing
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
U. P. Assembly Election, 1989: Lucknow East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD babu lal yadav 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. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. "Election Commission of India".
  4. "UP polls: AAP candidate accuses BJP of violating poll code". Hindustan Times. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
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