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{{Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency
| name = Agra Cantonment
| map =
| state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| union_territory =
| district_label =
| district = [[Agra district|Agra]]
| population =
| electorate = 383,405 (2012)
| year = 1967
| reserved = [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|SC]]
| members_label1 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
| mla = [[Girraj Singh Dharmesh]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| blank1_name =
| blank1_info =
}}
'''Agra Cantonment Assembly constituency '''(a.k.a. '''Agra Cantt.''') is one of the 403 constituencies of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]], [[India]]. It is a part of the [[Agra district]] and one of the five assembly constituencies in the [[Agra (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. First assembly elections in the Agra Cantonment assembly constituency were conducted in 1967 and the extant and serial number of this constituency was last defined in "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008".<ref name="Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008">{{cite news|title= Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Old & New, 2008|publisher= [[Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh]]|access-date= 12 November 2016|url= http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/Instructions/delimitation_Old_New.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111113181505/http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/Instructions/delimitation_Old_New.pdf|archive-date= 13 November 2011|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=" Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 ">{{cite news|title= Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] official website|access-date=12 November 2016|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf}}</ref> [[Voter-verified paper audit trail|VVPAT]] facility with EVMs will arrive in the 2017 U.P assembly polls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/Machines-to-rule-out-fraud-confusion-at-upcoming-UP-polls/articleshow/55946986.cms|title=Machines to rule out fraud, confusion at upcoming UP polls}}</ref>

==Wards / Areas==

Agra Cantt. assembly constituency comprises "Agra CB" and Ward numbers 2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 24, 34, 40, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 54, 60, 65 & 68 in Agra municipal corporation.<ref name=" Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008 "/>

==Members of the Legislative Assembly==
{| class="sortable" width="70%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: x-big; font-family: verdana"
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Year
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Winner
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Party
! style="background-color:#666666; color:white" |Ref.
|-
|1967
|H.H.N.A.A.H. Babu
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_1967/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201967%20.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>
|-
|1969
|Deoki Nandan Bibav
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_1969/Statistical%20Report%201969%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1969 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>
|-
|1974
|Krishna Vir Singh Kaushal
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1974/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201974.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1974 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>
|-
|1977
|Krishna Vir Singh Kaushal
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201977.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1977 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|1980
|Krishna Vir Singh Kaushal
|[[Indian National Congress|Indian National Congress (I)]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1980/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201980.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1980 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|1985
|Krishna Vir Singh Kaushal
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1985/Statistical%20Report%20Uttar%20Pradesh%201985.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|1989
|[[Hardwar Dubey]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1989/Statistical%20Report_%20UP_1989.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1989 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|[[Hardwar Dubey]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/Stat_Rep_UP_91.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1991 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1993]]
|Ramesh Kant Lawania
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1993/StatisticalReport_UP_1993.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1993 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|Kesho Mehra
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-UP96.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1996 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2002]]
|Mohammad Basheer
|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2002/Stat_rep_UP_2002.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2002 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2007]]
|Julfikar Ahmed Bhutto
|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2007/StatReport_AS_2007_UTTAR_PRADESH.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2007 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2012]]
|[[Gutiyari Lal Duwesh]]
|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2012/Stats_Report_UP2012.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2012 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTAR PRADESH|website=Eci.nic.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
|[[Girraj Singh Dharmesh]]
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|
|}

==Election results==
===[[Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|17th Vidhan Sabha: 2017 General Elections]]===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Agra Cantonment]]}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Bharatiya Janata Party
| candidate = [[Girraj Singh Dharmesh]]
| votes = 1,13,178
| percentage = 44.77
| change = +15.37
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Bahujan Samaj Party
| candidate = [[Gutiyari Lal Duwesh]]
| votes = 66,853
| percentage = 26.44
| change = -6.03
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Samajwadi Party
| candidate = Mamata Kaudan
| votes = 64,683
| percentage = 25.58
| change = +3.89
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
| party =
| candidate = Remainder eleven candidates
| votes = 6,917
| percentage = 2.73
| change =
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = None of the Above
| candidate = NOTA
| votes = 1,185
| percentage = 0.46
| change =
}}
{{Election box majority
| votes = 46,325
| percentage = 18.33
| change = +15.26
}}

{{Election box turnout
| votes = 2,52,850
| percentage = 59.14
| change =
}}

{{Election box swing with party link
| winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
| loser = Bahujan Samaj Party
| swing = -
}}
{{Election box end}}
<ref name="2017 Election Results">{{cite web|url=http://www.india.com/news/india/agra-election-results-2017-live-who-is-winning-from-etmadpur-fatehpur-sikri-kheragarh-and-other-constituencies-1893650/|title=Who won from Etmadpur, Fatehpur Sikri, Kheragarh and other constituencies|last=Chauhan|first=Shubchang|date=12 March 2017|website=India.com|publisher=India WebPortal|access-date=26 June 2017}}</ref>

===[[Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|16th Vidhan Sabha: 2012 General Elections]]===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Agra Cantonment]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Bahujan Samaj Party
| candidate = [[Gutiyari Lal Duwesh]]
| votes = 67,786
| percentage = 32.47
| change = -
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Bharatiya Janata Party
| candidate = [[Girraj Singh Dharmesh]]
| votes = 61,371
| percentage = 29.40
| change = -
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| party = Samajwadi Party
| candidate = Chander Sen
| votes = 44,684
| percentage = 21.89
| change = -
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
| party =
| candidate = Remainder thirteen candidates
| votes = 33,898
| percentage = 16.24
| change = -
}}
{{Election box majority
| votes = 6,415
| percentage = 3.07
| change = -
}}
{{Election box turnout
| votes = 208,739
| percentage = 54.44
| change = -
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
| winner = Bahujan Samaj Party
| swing = -
}}
{{Election box end}}
<ref name="2012 Election Results">{{cite news|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2012/Stats_Report_UP2012.pdf|title=2012 Election Results|access-date=12 November 2016|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] website}}</ref>

==See also==

*[[Agra district]]
*[[Agra (Graduates constituency)]]
*[[Agra (Lok Sabha constituency)]]
*[[Government of Uttar Pradesh]]
*[[List of Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]
*[[Uttar Pradesh]]
*[[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|colwidth=40em}}
{{Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh|state=collapsed}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Agra]]
[[Category:Constituencies established in 1967]]
[[Category:1967 establishments in Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Politics of Agra district]]

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