Lucknow Central (Assembly constituency)

Lucknow Central is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Central part of Lucknow in the Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Lucknow Central
Constituency
District	Lucknow
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	BJP
MLA	Brajesh Pathak
Reservation	None

Lucknow Central is one of five assembly constituencies in the Lucknow (Lok Sabha constituency) Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 174 amongst 403 constituencies.

Currently this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Brajesh Pathak who won in last Assembly election of 2017 Uttar Pradesh Lagislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra by a margin of 5,094 votes. [1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year		Member	Political Party
	1951	Syed Ali Zaheer	Indian National Congress
	1951 (By Poll)	Harish Chandra Bajpai
	1951 (By Poll)	Ram Shankar Rabivasi
	1957	Mahabir Prasad Srivastava
	1962
	1967	S. K. Vidyarthi	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
	1969	Imitiaz Husain	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
	1974	Ramesh Chandra Srivastava	Indian National Congress
	1977	Ram Prakash	Janata Party
	1980	Mohammad Rafi Siddiqui	Indian National Congress (I)
	1985	Naresh Chandra
	1989	Basant Lal Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1991
	1993	Ram Prakash
	1996	Suresh Kumar Srivastava
	2002
	2007
	2012	Ravidas Mehrotra	Samajwadi Party
	2017	Brajesh Pathak	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

U. P. Assembly Election, 2017: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Brajesh Pathak	78,400	40.20	+16.60
	SP	Ravidas Mehrotra	73,306	37.59	+0.54
	BSP	Rajeev Srivastava	24,313	12.46	-1.71
	INC	Abdul Maroof Khan	12,921	6.62	-14.46
	AIMIM	Mohammad Irfan	2,314	1.18	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	824	0.42	N/A
Majority			5,094	2.61
Turnout			1,95,025	53.15	+2.24
	BJP gain from SP		Swing	+8.03

U. P. Assembly Election, 2012: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Ravidas Mehrotra	62,622	37.05
	BJP	Vidya Sagar Gupta	39,890	23.60
	INC	Fakhir Siddiqui	35,623	21.08
	BSP	Mohammad Naseem Siddiqui	23,956	14.17
	NAP	Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal	1,108	0.66
Majority			22,732	13.45
Turnout			1,69,019	50.91
	SP gain from BJP		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 2007: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Kumar Srivastava	30,872	34.79
	SP	Ravidas Mehrotra	26,962	30.38
	INC	Manjoor Ahmad	14,123	15.91
	BSP	Nagendra Mohan	13,892	15.65
	Independent	Pravesh Kumar Singh	495	0.55
Majority			3,910	4.41
Turnout			88,721	28.35
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 2002: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Kumar Srivastava	37,388	38.94
	SP	Banware Lal Kanchal	25,473	26.53
	INC	Sushil Dubey	13,513	14.07
	BSP	Mohammad Gayasuddin Hashmi	9,381	9.77
	RTKP	Kusum Rai	6,622	6.90
Majority			11,915	12.41
Turnout			96,021	31.89
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 1996: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Kumar Srivastava	72,338	59.21
	SP	Waliullah Javed	36,171	29.60
	BSP	Umesh Chandra	12,705	10.40
	AIMLF	Gajnafar Agha	337	0.28
	ABJS	Kamata Prasad Pandey	252	0.21
Majority			36,167	29.61
Turnout			1,22,179	43.21
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 1993: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ram Prakash	63,396	54.06
	SP	Vinod Behari Verma	41,278	35.20
	INC	Mohammad Rafi Siddiqui	8,528	7.27
	JD	Kamal Khan	1,415	1.21
	SHS	Vinod Kumar Singh	630	0.54
Majority			22,118	18.86
Turnout			1,17,262	52.10
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 1991: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Basant Lal Gupta	43,744	56.15
	JP	Musheer Ahmad Lari	18,644	23.93
	INC	Naresh Chandra	10,607	13.61
	JD	Abdul Hakeem	1,394	1.79
	BSP	Sayed Sikander Abbas Rizvi	1,181	1.52
Majority			25,100	32.22
Turnout			77,911	30.82
	BJP hold		Swing

U. P. Assembly Election, 1989: Lucknow Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Basant Lal Gupta	21,272	34.76
	JD	Musheer Ahmad Lari	18,151	29.66
	INC	Naresh Chandra	13,758	22.48
	Independent	Vijay Kumar	2,041	3.33
	CPI	Ram Kishor Sharma	1,550	2.53
Majority			3,121	5.10
Turnout			61,204	24.54
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

References

1. "Assembly result 2017". Elections.in. Retrieved 25 August 2017.