Varanasi Cantonment is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Varanasi Cantonment in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
[1] Varanasi Cantonment is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.
As of now, this seat belongs to Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Saurabh Srivastava who won in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Anil Srivastava by a margin of 61,326 votes.
[2] The constituency has a preponderance of voters belonging to Kayastha and Brahmin caste.
The Baniya stand second only to the twin caste of Kayastha-Bhramin in population, in this constituency.