Pratapgarh

Overview & 2022 Context

Pratapgarh, Legislative Assembly segment number 248 in Pratapgarh district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. RAJENDRA KUMAR of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 89,762 votes (45.68%), defeating KRISHNA PATEL (APNDLK), who polled 64,699 (32.92%). The victory margin was 25,063 votes. Of 355,158 electors, 196,522 votes were polled and turnout stood at 55.33%.

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, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: RAJENDRA KUMAR (BJP, 89,762 / 45.68%); KRISHNA PATEL (APNDLK, 64,699 / 32.92%); ASHUTOSH TRIPATHI (BSP, 19,249 / 9.79%); ISRAR AHMAD (AIMIM, 6,480 / 3.3%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between RAJENDRA KUMAR and KRISHNA PATEL is the binding fact for seat 248, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 25,063 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Pratapgarh sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Pratapgarh, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Pratapgarh is Assembly Constituency number 248 under Pratapgarh (headquarters: Pratapgarh). 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. Pratapgarh sits inside that Pratapgarh 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: NAGENDRA SINGH "MUNNA (SP) by 7,510 votes; 2007: SANJAY (BSP) by 8,956 votes; 2002: HARI PRATAP SINGH (BJP) by 2,471 votes; 1996: CHANDRA NATH SINGH (SP) by 9,076 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for RAJENDRA KUMAR (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 248 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: 355,158. Votes polled: 196,522. Turnout: 55.33%. Winner RAJENDRA KUMAR (BJP): 89,762 (45.68%); runner-up KRISHNA PATEL (APNDLK): 64,699 (32.92%); margin: 25,063 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 99,385 (51.1%), female 95,117 (48.9%).

Turnout 55.33% with 196,522 votes from 355,158 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Pratapgarh.

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 Pratapgarh, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a clear mandate for RAJENDRA KUMAR (BJP) against KRISHNA PATEL (APNDLK) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 248.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Pratapgarh is narrower: RAJENDRA KUMAR (BJP) outpolled KRISHNA PATEL (APNDLK) by 25,063 votes under 55.33% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 248.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Pratapgarh. RAJENDRA KUMAR (BJP) converted 89,762 votes; KRISHNA PATEL (APNDLK) had 64,699. Turnout 55.33% and margin 25,063 in seat 248 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 355,158, votes polled 196,522, and the head-to-head between RAJENDRA KUMAR and KRISHNA PATEL. District cues in Pratapgarh 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.