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Uttar Pradesh · Assembly Constituency 324 · 19572 seats · 1 SC

Lucknow Cantonment

Winner — 1957

BASANT LAL
INC· INC
Also elected — same seat
SHYAM MANOHAR MISRA
INC· 18,849 votes
INC 19.6%INC 19.6%8 others 60.8%
Votes
18,855
19.6% share
Winning margin
7,215
7.5% of votes
Total candidates
10
Turnout
35.3%
of 1,36,239

A clear win with a 7.5% margin.

Seat history

All Candidates

10 total
#CandidatePartyVotesShare
1
BASANT LAL
18,85519.6%
2
SHYAM MANOHAR MISRA
18,84919.6%
3
CHHOTEY LAL
11,64012.1%
4
GOVIND PRASAD
10,16210.6%
5
BACHCHOO SINGH
8,5678.9%
6
RAM SAGAR MISRA
IND
7,4437.7%
7
KHUSHAL
7,2197.5%
8
JANGALI
5,6155.8%
9
SHEO NARAIN LAL
4,9025.1%
10
SARYOO LAL BALMIKI
IND
2,9793.1%

Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.

Average turnout (244th), a comfortable margin, a two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
lean
7.5%
MORE COMPETITIVESAFER
mean 12.3% · min 0.9% · max 56.8%

How contested is turnout?

SEAT
59%
lowerhigher
244th of 403

How crowded is the field?

SEAT
2.95
fewer partiesmore parties
133rd of 403

How much NOTA?

SEAT
0.7%
lowerhigher
156th of 403

Where does the house stand?

SEAT
430 seats · 216 majority

How did the vote split?

SEAT
2.95EFFECTIVE PARTIES
INC 19.6%INC 19.6%BJS 12.1%BJS 10.6%PSP 8.9%IND 7.7%OTH 21.5%

Who ran, on record?

SEAT
NOT YET COMPUTED

A dense, urban district — less literate than the national rate.

Who lives here?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Population
44,40,895
Density
1337 / km²
Sex ratio
950 ♀/1000 ♂
Area
3,321 km²
SC population21.1%
ST population0.4%

What faith is practised here?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011 C-01
90%HINDU
Hindu 90.3%Muslim 9.1%Other 0.6%

How developed is it?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Tap water34.3%
Electricity42.7%
Sanitation30.7%

How healthy is it?

DISTRICTNFHS-5 · 2019-21
Institutional births91.6%
Children fully vaccinated67.7%
Children stunted (under 5)▼ LOWER IS BETTER29.6%
Children underweight (under 5)33.7%
Women anaemic (15-49)▼ LOWER IS BETTER52.9%
Women literate68.8%
Women married before 18▼ LOWER IS BETTER14.6%
Clean cooking fuel66.8%
Health insurance17.9%

What's nearby?

SEATWIKIDATA · ASI
Known forDISTRICT
🏷️Gorakhpur TerracottaGI🏺Readymade Garments

Landmark data: Wikidata (CC0) · ASI (Government of India, official). Images: Wikimedia Commons (individual CC / public-domain licenses, see each file). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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