Aonla

Overview & 2022 Context

Aonla, Legislative Assembly number 126 in Bareilly district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. DHARMPAL SINGH of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 88,956 votes (46.1%), defeating PT. RADHA KRISHAN SHARMA (SP), who polled 70,532 (36.55%). The victory margin was 18,424 votes. Of 315,035 electors, 192,976 votes were polled and turnout stood at 61.26%.

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: DHARMPAL SINGH (BJP, 88,956 / 46.1%); PT. RADHA KRISHAN SHARMA (SP, 70,532 / 36.55%); LAXMAN PRASAD (BSP, 18,773 / 9.73%); JEERAJ SINGH (IND, 5,382 / 2.79%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between DHARMPAL SINGH and PT. RADHA KRISHAN SHARMA is the binding fact for seat 126, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 18,424 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bareilly is part of the Rohilkhand belt of north-central Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Bareilly, the district mixes agrarian plains with trading towns; farm incomes, small industry and communal–caste coalition arithmetic often travel together in election seasons. Administratively, Aonla is Assembly Constituency number 126 under Bareilly (headquarters: Bareilly). 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. Aonla sits inside that Bareilly 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: DHARM PAL SINGH (BJP) by 4,408 votes; 2007: RADHA KRISHNA (BSP) by 9,379 votes; 2002: DHARM PAL SINGH (BJP) by 263 votes; 1996: DHARAMPAL SINGH (BJP) by 21,262 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for DHARMPAL SINGH (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 126 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: 315,035. Votes polled: 192,976. Turnout: 61.26%. Winner DHARMPAL SINGH (BJP): 88,956 (46.1%); runner-up PT. RADHA KRISHAN SHARMA (SP): 70,532 (36.55%); margin: 18,424 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 103,003 (53.6%), female 89,165 (46.4%).

Turnout 61.26% with 192,976 votes from 315,035 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Bareilly.

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 Bareilly, voters also weighed farm incomes, small-town jobs, communal harmony, rural roads. a clear mandate for DHARMPAL SINGH (BJP) against PT. RADHA KRISHAN SHARMA (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 126.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Aonla is narrower: DHARMPAL SINGH (BJP) outpolled PT. RADHA KRISHAN SHARMA (SP) by 18,424 votes under 61.26% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 126.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Aonla. DHARMPAL SINGH (BJP) converted 88,956 votes; PT. RADHA KRISHAN SHARMA (SP) had 70,532. Turnout 61.26% and margin 18,424 in seat 126 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 315,035, votes polled 192,976, and the head-to-head between DHARMPAL SINGH and PT. RADHA KRISHAN SHARMA. District cues in Bareilly 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.