Barabanki

Overview & 2022 Context

Barabanki, Legislative Assembly number 268 in Barabanki district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Dharmraj Singh Yadav of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 125,500 votes (47.09%), defeating Dr. Ramkumari Maurya (BJP), who polled 90,450 (33.94%). The victory margin was 35,050 votes. Of 392,184 electors, 266,494 votes were polled and turnout stood at 67.95%.

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 Assembly Constituency, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Dharmraj Singh Yadav (SP, 125,500 / 47.09%); Dr. Ramkumari Maurya (BJP, 90,450 / 33.94%); Dr. Vivek Singh Verma (BSP, 42,506 / 15.95%); Roohi Arshad (INC, 4,560 / 1.71%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Dharmraj Singh Yadav and Dr. Ramkumari Maurya is the binding fact for seat 268, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 35,050 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Barabanki sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Barabanki, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Barabanki is Assembly Constituency number 268 under Barabanki (headquarters: Barabanki). 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. Barabanki sits inside that Barabanki administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2017: DHARMRAJ SINGH YADAV URF SURESH YADAV (SP) by 29,705 votes; 2012: DHARAM RAJ (SP) by 22,770 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Dharmraj Singh Yadav (SP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 268 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: 392,184. Votes polled: 266,494. Turnout: 67.95%. Winner Dharmraj Singh Yadav (SP): 125,500 (47.09%); runner-up Dr. Ramkumari Maurya (BJP): 90,450 (33.94%); margin: 35,050 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 145,578 (54.91%), female 119,558 (45.09%), other 9.

Turnout 67.95% with 266,494 votes from 392,184 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Barabanki.

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 Barabanki, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a clear mandate for Dharmraj Singh Yadav (SP) against Dr. Ramkumari Maurya (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 268.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Barabanki is narrower: Dharmraj Singh Yadav (SP) outpolled Dr. Ramkumari Maurya (BJP) by 35,050 votes under 67.95% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 268.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Barabanki. Dharmraj Singh Yadav (SP) converted 125,500 votes; Dr. Ramkumari Maurya (BJP) had 90,450. Turnout 67.95% and margin 35,050 in seat 268 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 392,184, votes polled 266,494, and the head-to-head between Dharmraj Singh Yadav and Dr. Ramkumari Maurya. District cues in Barabanki 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.