Biswan

Overview & 2022 Context

Biswan, Assembly Constituency number 149 in Sitapur district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. NIRMAL VERMA of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 106,014 votes (44.77%), defeating AFZAAL KAUSAR (SP), who polled 95,536 (40.34%). The victory margin was 10,478 votes. Of 337,785 electors, 236,801 votes were polled and turnout stood at 70.1%.

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: NIRMAL VERMA (BJP, 106,014 / 44.77%); AFZAAL KAUSAR (SP, 95,536 / 40.34%); HASHIM ALI (BSP, 24,086 / 10.17%); VANDANA BHARRGAVA (INC, 4,665 / 1.97%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between NIRMAL VERMA and AFZAAL KAUSAR is the binding fact for seat 149, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 10,478 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Sitapur sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Sitapur, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Biswan is Legislative Assembly number 149 under Sitapur (headquarters: Sitapur). 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. Biswan sits inside that Sitapur 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: RAMPAL YADAV (SP) by 7,349 votes; 2007: NIRMAL VERMA (BSP) by 8,228 votes; 2002: RAM PAL YADAV (SP) by 5,637 votes; 1996: AJIT KUMAR MEHROTRA (BJP) by 13,333 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for NIRMAL VERMA (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 149 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: 337,785. Votes polled: 236,801. Turnout: 70.1%. Winner NIRMAL VERMA (BJP): 106,014 (44.77%); runner-up AFZAAL KAUSAR (SP): 95,536 (40.34%); margin: 10,478 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 127,440 (53.98%), female 108,634 (46.02%).

Turnout 70.1% with 236,801 votes from 337,785 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Sitapur.

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 Sitapur, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for NIRMAL VERMA (BJP) against AFZAAL KAUSAR (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 149.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Biswan is narrower: NIRMAL VERMA (BJP) outpolled AFZAAL KAUSAR (SP) by 10,478 votes under 70.1% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 149.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Biswan. NIRMAL VERMA (BJP) converted 106,014 votes; AFZAAL KAUSAR (SP) had 95,536. Turnout 70.1% and margin 10,478 in seat 149 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 337,785, votes polled 236,801, and the head-to-head between NIRMAL VERMA and AFZAAL KAUSAR. District cues in Sitapur 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.