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Kanpur Graduates Constituency is one of 100 Legislative Council seats in Uttar Pradesh, India. This constituency covers Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat and Unnao district.

Members of the Legislative Council

Year	Name	Party
1916	Rai Bahadur Anand Swarup		Independent
1922
1928
1932	Rai Bahadur Dr. Brijendra Swarup
1938
1944
1950
1956	Dr. Virendra Swarup
1962
1968
1974
1980	Jagendra Swarup
1986
1992
1998
2004
2010
2015*	Arun Pathak		Bharatiya Janata Party
2017
2023

• *By Election in January 2015.

Election results

2023

U. P. Legislative Council Election, 2023: Kanpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arun Pathak	62,601	81.72	26.48
	SP	Kamlesh Yadav	9,316	12.16
	INC	Neha Singh Sachan	2,380	3.11
	Independent	Praveen Kumar Srivastava	311	0.41	0.26
	NOTA	None of the Above	N/A	N/A	0.07
Majority			53,285	69.56	57.12
Turnout			76,608	40.93	13.67
	BJP hold		Swing	26.48

2017

U. P. Legislative Council Election, 2017: Kanpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arun Pathak	40,633	55.24	18.32
	Independent	Manvendra Swarup	31,479	42.80	8.55
	NOTA	None of the Above	53	0.07	0.03
Majority			9,154	12.44	9.77
Turnout			73,551	54.60	24.16
	BJP hold		Swing	18.32

2015

U.P. Legislative Council By Election, 2015: Kanpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arun Pathak	25,133	36.92
	Independent	Manvendra Swarup	23,317	34.25
	Independent	Dr. Vivek Dwivedi	10,242	15.04
	Independent	Dr. Awdhesh Pratap Singh	4,933	7.24
	Independent	Gyanendra Shukla	1,045	1.53
	NOTA	None of the Above	73	0.10
Majority			1,816	2.67
Turnout			68,063	30.44
	BJP gain from Independent		Swing

See also

• Kanpur (Teachers constituency)
• Kanpur Cantonment (Assembly constituency)
• Kanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)