Sirathu

Overview & 2022 Context

Sirathu, Assembly Constituency number 251 in Kaushambi district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. DR. PALLAVI PATEL of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 106,278 votes (46.32%), defeating KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA (BJP), who polled 98,941 (43.12%). The victory margin was 7,337 votes. Of 381,662 electors, 229,458 votes were polled and turnout stood at 60.12%.

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 segment, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: DR. PALLAVI PATEL (SP, 106,278 / 46.32%); KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA (BJP, 98,941 / 43.12%); MUNSAB ALI (BSP, 10,073 / 4.39%); JEETENDRA KUMAR (IND, 2,686 / 1.17%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between DR. PALLAVI PATEL and KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA is the binding fact for seat 251, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 7,337 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Kaushambi sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Kaushambi, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Sirathu is Legislative Assembly number 251 under Kaushambi (headquarters: Kaushambi). 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. Sirathu sits inside that Kaushambi 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: KESHAV PRASAD (BJP) by 9,863 votes; 2007: WACHASPATI (BSP) by 21,998 votes; 2002: MATESH CHANDRA SONKAR (BSP) by 3,809 votes; 1996: MATESH CHANDRA SONKER (BSP) by 8,232 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for DR. PALLAVI PATEL (SP) in Assembly Constituency number 251 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: 381,662. Votes polled: 229,458. Turnout: 60.12%. Winner DR. PALLAVI PATEL (SP): 106,278 (46.32%); runner-up KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA (BJP): 98,941 (43.12%); margin: 7,337 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 114,891 (50.37%), female 113,213 (49.63%), other 1.

Turnout 60.12% with 229,458 votes from 381,662 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Kaushambi.

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 Kaushambi, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for DR. PALLAVI PATEL (SP) against KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 251.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Sirathu is narrower: DR. PALLAVI PATEL (SP) outpolled KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA (BJP) by 7,337 votes under 60.12% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 251.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Sirathu. DR. PALLAVI PATEL (SP) converted 106,278 votes; KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA (BJP) had 98,941. Turnout 60.12% and margin 7,337 in seat 251 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 381,662, votes polled 229,458, and the head-to-head between DR. PALLAVI PATEL and KESHAV PRASAD MAURYA. District cues in Kaushambi 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.