Khajani (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Khajani, Assembly Constituency number 325 in Gorakhpur district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. SHRIRAM CHAUHAN of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 90,210 votes (45.34%), defeating RUPAWATI BELDAR (SP), who polled 53,109 (26.69%). The victory margin was 37,101 votes. Of 380,081 electors, 198,951 votes were polled and turnout stood at 52.34%.

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: SHRIRAM CHAUHAN (BJP, 90,210 / 45.34%); RUPAWATI BELDAR (SP, 53,109 / 26.69%); VIDYASAGAR (BSP, 46,427 / 23.34%); RAJANI (INC, 2,197 / 1.1%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between SHRIRAM CHAUHAN and RUPAWATI BELDAR is the binding fact for seat 325, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 37,101 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Gorakhpur belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Gorakhpur, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Khajani is Assembly Constituency number 325 under Gorakhpur (headquarters: Gorakhpur). 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. Khajani sits inside that Gorakhpur 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: SANT PRASAD (BJP) by 20,079 votes; 2012: SANT PRASAD (BJP) by 9,436 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for SHRIRAM CHAUHAN (BJP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 325 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: 380,081. Votes polled: 198,951. Turnout: 52.34%. Winner SHRIRAM CHAUHAN (BJP): 90,210 (45.34%); runner-up RUPAWATI BELDAR (SP): 53,109 (26.69%); margin: 37,101 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 94,816 (48.01%), female 102,669 (51.99%).

Turnout 52.34% with 198,951 votes from 380,081 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Gorakhpur.

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 Gorakhpur, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a landslide verdict for SHRIRAM CHAUHAN (BJP) against RUPAWATI BELDAR (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 325.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Khajani is narrower: SHRIRAM CHAUHAN (BJP) outpolled RUPAWATI BELDAR (SP) by 37,101 votes under 52.34% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 325.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Khajani. SHRIRAM CHAUHAN (BJP) converted 90,210 votes; RUPAWATI BELDAR (SP) had 53,109. Turnout 52.34% and margin 37,101 in seat 325 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 380,081, votes polled 198,951, and the head-to-head between SHRIRAM CHAUHAN and RUPAWATI BELDAR. District cues in Gorakhpur 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.