Husainganj

Overview & 2022 Context

Husainganj, Legislative Assembly seat number 242 in Fatehpur district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. USHA MAURYA of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 91,884 votes (48.77%), defeating RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH ALIAS DHUNNI BHAIYA (BJP), who polled 66,703 (35.4%). The victory margin was 25,181 votes. Of 304,518 electors, 188,419 votes were polled and turnout stood at 61.87%.

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: USHA MAURYA (SP, 91,884 / 48.77%); RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH ALIAS DHUNNI BHAIYA (BJP, 66,703 / 35.4%); FAREED AHMAD (BSP, 21,009 / 11.15%); SHIVAKANT TIWARI (INC, 5,042 / 2.68%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between USHA MAURYA and RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH ALIAS DHUNNI BHAIYA is the binding fact for seat 242, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 25,181 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Fatehpur sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Fatehpur, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Husainganj is Legislative Assembly segment number 242 under Fatehpur (headquarters: Fatehpur). 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. Husainganj sits inside that Fatehpur 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: RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH URF DHUNNI BHAIYA (BJP) by 18,593 votes; 2012: MO. ASIF (BSP) by 2,851 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for USHA MAURYA (SP) in Legislative Assembly number 242 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: 304,518. Votes polled: 188,419. Turnout: 61.87%. Winner USHA MAURYA (SP): 91,884 (48.77%); runner-up RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH ALIAS DHUNNI BHAIYA (BJP): 66,703 (35.4%); margin: 25,181 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 94,977 (50.57%), female 92,834 (49.43%), other 3.

Turnout 61.87% with 188,419 votes from 304,518 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Fatehpur.

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 Fatehpur, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a clear mandate for USHA MAURYA (SP) against RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH ALIAS DHUNNI BHAIYA (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 242.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Husainganj is narrower: USHA MAURYA (SP) outpolled RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH ALIAS DHUNNI BHAIYA (BJP) by 25,181 votes under 61.87% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 242.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Husainganj. USHA MAURYA (SP) converted 91,884 votes; RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH ALIAS DHUNNI BHAIYA (BJP) had 66,703. Turnout 61.87% and margin 25,181 in seat 242 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 304,518, votes polled 188,419, and the head-to-head between USHA MAURYA and RANVENDRA PRATAP SINGH ALIAS DHUNNI BHAIYA. District cues in Fatehpur 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.