Bilsi

Overview & 2022 Context

Bilsi, Legislative Assembly number 114 in Budaun district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. HARISH CHANDRA of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 93,500 votes (45.52%), defeating CHANDRA PRAKASH MAURYA (SP), who polled 68,385 (33.29%). The victory margin was 25,115 votes. Of 355,234 electors, 205,403 votes were polled and turnout stood at 57.82%.

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: HARISH CHANDRA (BJP, 93,500 / 45.52%); CHANDRA PRAKASH MAURYA (SP, 68,385 / 33.29%); MAMTA SHAKYA (BSP, 31,694 / 15.43%); MIR HADI ALI URF BABAR MIYAN (ASPKR, 2,790 / 1.36%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between HARISH CHANDRA and CHANDRA PRAKASH MAURYA is the binding fact for seat 114, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 25,115 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Budaun is part of the Rohilkhand belt of north-central Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Budaun, the district mixes agrarian plains with trading towns; farm incomes, small industry and communal–caste coalition arithmetic often travel together in election seasons. Administratively, Bilsi is Assembly Constituency number 114 under Budaun (headquarters: Budaun). 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. Bilsi sits inside that Budaun 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: MUSARRAT ALI BITTAN (BSP) by 8,328 votes; 2007: YOGENDRA SAGAR URF (BSP) by 5,803 votes; 2002: ASHUTOSH MAURYA URF RAJU (SP) by 12,036 votes; 1996: MAYAWATI (BSP) by 2,515 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for HARISH CHANDRA (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 114 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: 355,234. Votes polled: 205,403. Turnout: 57.82%. Winner HARISH CHANDRA (BJP): 93,500 (45.52%); runner-up CHANDRA PRAKASH MAURYA (SP): 68,385 (33.29%); margin: 25,115 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 110,519 (54%), female 94,154 (46%), other 3.

Turnout 57.82% with 205,403 votes from 355,234 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Budaun.

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 Budaun, voters also weighed farm incomes, small-town jobs, communal harmony, rural roads. a clear mandate for HARISH CHANDRA (BJP) against CHANDRA PRAKASH MAURYA (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 114.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Bilsi is narrower: HARISH CHANDRA (BJP) outpolled CHANDRA PRAKASH MAURYA (SP) by 25,115 votes under 57.82% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 114.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Bilsi. HARISH CHANDRA (BJP) converted 93,500 votes; CHANDRA PRAKASH MAURYA (SP) had 68,385. Turnout 57.82% and margin 25,115 in seat 114 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 355,234, votes polled 205,403, and the head-to-head between HARISH CHANDRA and CHANDRA PRAKASH MAURYA. District cues in Budaun 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.