Shamli

Overview & 2022 Context

Shamli, Assembly Constituency number 10 in Shamli district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Persann Kumar of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) finished first with 103,070 votes (48.75%), defeating Tejendra Singh (BJP), who polled 95,963 (45.39%). The victory margin was 7,107 votes. Of 311,974 electors, 211,429 votes were polled and turnout stood at 67.77%.

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: Persann Kumar (RLD, 103,070 / 48.75%); Tejendra Singh (BJP, 95,963 / 45.39%); Bijendra (BSP, 8,183 / 3.87%); Mohmmad Ayub Jang (INC, 780 / 0.37%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Persann Kumar and Tejendra Singh is the binding fact for seat 10, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 7,107 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Shamli lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Shamli anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Shamli is Assembly Constituency number 10 under Shamli (headquarters: Shamli). 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. Shamli sits inside that Shamli 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: TEJENDRA NIRWAL (BJP) by 29,720 votes; 2012: PANKAJ KUMAR MALIK (INC) by 3,741 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Persann Kumar (RLD) in Legislative Assembly segment number 10 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: 311,974. Votes polled: 211,429. Turnout: 67.77%. Winner Persann Kumar (RLD): 103,070 (48.75%); runner-up Tejendra Singh (BJP): 95,963 (45.39%); margin: 7,107 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 114,924 (54.83%), female 94,691 (45.17%).

Turnout 67.77% with 211,429 votes from 311,974 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Shamli.

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 Shamli, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for Persann Kumar (RLD) against Tejendra Singh (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 10.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Shamli is narrower: Persann Kumar (RLD) outpolled Tejendra Singh (BJP) by 7,107 votes under 67.77% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 10.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Shamli. Persann Kumar (RLD) converted 103,070 votes; Tejendra Singh (BJP) had 95,963. Turnout 67.77% and margin 7,107 in seat 10 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 311,974, votes polled 211,429, and the head-to-head between Persann Kumar and Tejendra Singh. District cues in Shamli 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.