Kerakat (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Kerakat, Legislative Assembly number 372 in Jaunpur district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Tufani Saroj of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 94,022 votes (39.11%), defeating Dinesh Chaudhary (BJP), who polled 84,178 (35.01%). The victory margin was 9,844 votes. Of 416,720 electors, 240,416 votes were polled and turnout stood at 57.69%.

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: Tufani Saroj (SP, 94,022 / 39.11%); Dinesh Chaudhary (BJP, 84,178 / 35.01%); Lalbahadur (BSP, 51,633 / 21.48%); Rajesh (INC, 2,688 / 1.12%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Tufani Saroj and Dinesh Chaudhary is the binding fact for seat 372, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 9,844 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Jaunpur belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Jaunpur, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Kerakat is Assembly Constituency number 372 under Jaunpur (headquarters: Jaunpur). 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. Kerakat sits inside that Jaunpur 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: GULAB CHAND (SP) by 10,186 votes; 2007: BIRAJU RAM (BSP) by 10,238 votes; 2002: SOMARU RAM SAROJ (BJP) by 961 votes; 1996: ASHOK KUMAR (BJP) by 9,060 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Tufani Saroj (SP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 372 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: 416,720. Votes polled: 240,416. Turnout: 57.69%. Winner Tufani Saroj (SP): 94,022 (39.11%); runner-up Dinesh Chaudhary (BJP): 84,178 (35.01%); margin: 9,844 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 111,229 (46.59%), female 127,522 (53.41%).

Turnout 57.69% with 240,416 votes from 416,720 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Jaunpur.

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 Jaunpur, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a comfortable but contested win for Tufani Saroj (SP) against Dinesh Chaudhary (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 372.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Kerakat is narrower: Tufani Saroj (SP) outpolled Dinesh Chaudhary (BJP) by 9,844 votes under 57.69% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 372.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Kerakat. Tufani Saroj (SP) converted 94,022 votes; Dinesh Chaudhary (BJP) had 84,178. Turnout 57.69% and margin 9,844 in seat 372 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 416,720, votes polled 240,416, and the head-to-head between Tufani Saroj and Dinesh Chaudhary. District cues in Jaunpur 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.