Barkhera

Overview & 2022 Context

Barkhera, Assembly Constituency number 128 in Pilibhit district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 151,771 votes (63.77%), defeating Hemraj Verma (SP), who polled 70,299 (29.54%). The victory margin was 81,472 votes. Of 323,808 electors, 237,989 votes were polled and turnout stood at 73.5%.

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: JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND (BJP, 151,771 / 63.77%); Hemraj Verma (SP, 70,299 / 29.54%); MOHAN SWAROOP (BSP, 9,383 / 3.94%); HARPREET PAL SINGH (INC, 2,702 / 1.14%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND and Hemraj Verma is the binding fact for seat 128, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 81,472 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Pilibhit is part of the Rohilkhand belt of north-central Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Pilibhit, the district mixes agrarian plains with trading towns; farm incomes, small industry and communal–caste coalition arithmetic often travel together in election seasons. Administratively, Barkhera is Legislative Assembly number 128 under Pilibhit (headquarters: Pilibhit). 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. Barkhera sits inside that Pilibhit 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: Hemraj Verma (SP) by 30,374 votes; 2007: SUKH LAL (BJP) by 13,389 votes; 2002: PEETAM RAM (SP) by 14,225 votes; 1996: PEETAM RAM (SJP(R)) by 15,452 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 128 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: 323,808. Votes polled: 237,989. Turnout: 73.5%. Winner JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND (BJP): 151,771 (63.77%); runner-up Hemraj Verma (SP): 70,299 (29.54%); margin: 81,472 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 126,052 (53.21%), female 110,838 (46.79%).

Turnout 73.5% with 237,989 votes from 323,808 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Pilibhit.

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 Pilibhit, voters also weighed farm incomes, small-town jobs, communal harmony, rural roads. a landslide verdict for JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND (BJP) against Hemraj Verma (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 128.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Barkhera is narrower: JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND (BJP) outpolled Hemraj Verma (SP) by 81,472 votes under 73.5% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 128.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Barkhera. JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND (BJP) converted 151,771 votes; Hemraj Verma (SP) had 70,299. Turnout 73.5% and margin 81,472 in seat 128 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 323,808, votes polled 237,989, and the head-to-head between JAYDRATH URF PRAVAKTANAND and Hemraj Verma. District cues in Pilibhit 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.