Dehradun Cantonment Assembly constituency

Coordinates: 30°21′11″N 78°01′44″E / 30.353°N 78.029°E

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Dehradun Cantonment
Constituency No. 21 for the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttarakhand
District	Dehradun
LS constituency	Tehri Garhwal
Total electors	134,911^[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
5th Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Savita Kapoor
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022

Dehradun Cantonment (Dehradun Cantt) is one of the seventy electoral Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand state in India. This seat is previously known as Dehradun Constituency before 2002 Delimitation.

The constituency is a part of Tehri Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency). It includes 15 wards of Dehradun Municipal Corporation and Dehradun Cantonment area.

Dehradun Municipal Corporation Wards

Kaulagarh
Ballupur
Yamuna Colony
Govindgarh
Sridev Suman Nagar
Vijay Park
Vasant Vihar
Panditwari
Indira Nagar
Seemadwar
Indirapuram
Kanwali
Dronpuri
Patel Nagar West
Gandhi Gram

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Name
2012	Harbans Kapoor	Bharatiya Janata Party
2017	Harbans Kapoor
2022	Savita Kapoor

Election results

Assembly Election 2022

2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election : Dehradun Cantonment^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Savita Kapoor	45,492	59.16%	2.75
	INC	Suryakant Dhasmana	24,554	31.93%	1.62
	AAP	Ravinder Singh Anand	3,265	4.25%	New
	Independent	Dinesh Rawat	1,056	1.37%	New
	UKD	Anirudh Kala	813	1.06%	New
	NOTA	Nota	614	0.80%	0.08
	BSP	Jaspal Singh	426	0.55%	0.55
Margin of victory			20,938	27.23%	4.37
Turnout			76,892	56.72%	0.42
Registered electors			1,35,555		6.22
	BJP hold		Swing	2.75

Assembly Election 2017

2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election : Dehradun Cantonment^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Harbans Kapoor	41,142	56.41%	9.26
	INC	Suryakant Dhasmana	24,472	33.56%	5.51
	Independent	Anoop Nautiyal	3,285	4.50%	New
	Independent	Naveen Bisht	1,303	1.79%	New
	BSP	Devendra Kumar	802	1.10%	1.39
	NOTA	None of the Above	641	0.88%	New
Margin of victory			16,670	22.86%	14.77
Turnout			72,928	57.14%	4.40
Registered electors			1,27,622		24.63
	BJP hold		Swing	9.26

Assembly Election 2012

2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election : Dehradun Cantonment^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Harbans Kapoor	29,719	47.15%	*New*
	INC	Devendra Singh Sethi	24,624	39.07%	New
	URM	Rajendra Pant	3,391	5.38%	New
	BSP	Noopur Gupta	1,570	2.49%	New
	Independent	Adesh Garg	1,118	1.77%	New
	Independent	Jyotsna	567	0.90%	New
	AITC	Bijendar Singh Thapa	367	0.58%	New
Margin of victory			5,095	8.08%
Turnout			63,025	61.55%
Registered electors			1,02,402
	BJP win (new seat)