Chail

Overview & 2022 Context

Chail, Assembly Constituency number 253 in Kaushambi district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Pooja Pal of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 88,818 votes (39.61%), defeating Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel (ADAL), who polled 75,609 (33.72%). The victory margin was 13,209 votes. Of 387,838 electors, 224,253 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 Legislative Assembly seat, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Pooja Pal (SP, 88,818 / 39.61%); Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel (ADAL, 75,609 / 33.72%); Atul Kumar Dwivedi (BSP, 31,362 / 13.99%); Anil Kumar Kesharwani (JDL, 5,089 / 2.27%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Pooja Pal and Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel is the binding fact for seat 253, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 13,209 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Kaushambi sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Kaushambi, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Chail is Assembly Constituency number 253 under Kaushambi (headquarters: Kaushambi). 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. Chail sits inside that Kaushambi 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: MOHD ASHIF JAFRI (BSP) by 1,290 votes; 2007: DAYA RAM (BSP) by 14,960 votes; 2002: DAYARAM (BSP) by 13,016 votes; 1996: VIJAI PRAKASH (INC) by 5,308 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Pooja Pal (SP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 253 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: 387,838. Votes polled: 224,253. Turnout: 57.82%. Winner Pooja Pal (SP): 88,818 (39.61%); runner-up Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel (ADAL): 75,609 (33.72%); margin: 13,209 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 116,103 (52.05%), female 106,969 (47.95%).

Turnout 57.82% with 224,253 votes from 387,838 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Kaushambi.

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 Kaushambi, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for Pooja Pal (SP) against Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel (ADAL) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 253.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Chail is narrower: Pooja Pal (SP) outpolled Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel (ADAL) by 13,209 votes under 57.82% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 253.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Chail. Pooja Pal (SP) converted 88,818 votes; Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel (ADAL) had 75,609. Turnout 57.82% and margin 13,209 in seat 253 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 387,838, votes polled 224,253, and the head-to-head between Pooja Pal and Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel. District cues in Kaushambi 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.