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.VVPAT facility with EVMs was here in 2017 U.P assembly polls.[1]

Lucknow East
Constituency
District	Lucknow
State	Uttar Pradesh
Current constituency
Created	2017
Party	BJP
MLA	Ashutosh Tandon
Reservation	None

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 Lagislative Elections defeating Indian National Congress candidate Anurag Bhadouria by a margin of 79,230 votes.[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year		Member	Political Party
	1951	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

Election results

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

Bye-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

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