Baghpat

Overview & 2022 Context

Baghpat, Assembly Constituency number 52 in Baghpat district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Yogesh Dhama of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 101,420 votes (47.37%), defeating Mohd Ahmed Hameed (RLD), who polled 94,687 (44.22%). The victory margin was 6,733 votes. Of 316,266 electors, 214,112 votes were polled and turnout stood at 67.7%.

The 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was a bipolar contest between the BJP-led NDA and the Samajwadi Party–led front. Campaign discourse centred on law-and-order and welfare delivery versus unemployment, inflation, farm distress and the stray-cattle problem, as widely reported during the polls; the BJP retained power while the SP improved its seat tally as the principal opposition. In this Legislative Assembly segment, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Yogesh Dhama (BJP, 101,420 / 47.37%); Mohd Ahmed Hameed (RLD, 94,687 / 44.22%); Arun Kasana (BSP, 12,863 / 6.01%); Anil (INC, 1,229 / 0.57%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Yogesh Dhama and Mohd Ahmed Hameed is the binding fact for seat 52, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 6,733 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Baghpat lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Baghpat anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Baghpat is Legislative Assembly number 52 under Baghpat (headquarters: Baghpat). Like neighbouring segments, it mixes rural habitations and market nodes where roads, schools, health access and welfare delivery travel with voters as strongly as statewide narratives.

Geography here is not ornamental for election reading. Flood plains, market roads and block headquarters shape who can mobilise, who migrates for work, and which booth clusters decide close Assembly Constituency contests. Baghpat sits inside that Baghpat administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2012: HEMLATA CHAUDHARY (BSP) by 7,663 votes; 2007: KAUKAB HAMEED KHAN (RLD) by 1,533 votes; 2002: KAWKAB HAMEED KHAN (RLD) by 14,778 votes; 1996: KAWKAB HAMEED (BKKGP) by 12,903 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Yogesh Dhama (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 52 should be read as continuity where the same camp had dominated, or as another swing where the lineage had flipped before — never by treating the serial number alone as eternal identity.

Statistics & Gender-wise Polling Analysis

Electors: 316,266. Votes polled: 214,112. Turnout: 67.7%. Winner Yogesh Dhama (BJP): 101,420 (47.37%); runner-up Mohd Ahmed Hameed (RLD): 94,687 (44.22%); margin: 6,733 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 118,693 (55.78%), female 94,090 (44.22%), other 1.

Turnout 67.7% with 214,112 votes from 316,266 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Baghpat.

Issues That Drove Voting Behavior

Statewide themes included suraksha/law-and-order messaging, labharthi welfare schemes, Hindutva-plus mobilisation, and opposition focus on jobs, price rise, farm incomes and stray cattle. In Baghpat, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for Yogesh Dhama (BJP) against Mohd Ahmed Hameed (RLD) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 52.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Baghpat is narrower: Yogesh Dhama (BJP) outpolled Mohd Ahmed Hameed (RLD) by 6,733 votes under 67.7% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 52.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Baghpat. Yogesh Dhama (BJP) converted 101,420 votes; Mohd Ahmed Hameed (RLD) had 94,687. Turnout 67.7% and margin 6,733 in seat 52 signal organisational reach across polling stations rather than a single-day mood swing alone.

For journalists and researchers, the safer frame is lineage continuity plus the published 2022 table: electors 316,266, votes polled 214,112, and the head-to-head between Yogesh Dhama and Mohd Ahmed Hameed. District cues in Baghpat still matter — roads, floods, farm prices, migration and welfare delivery — but they must be weighed against what the EVM count actually recorded in this Assembly Constituency / Legislative Assembly seat.