Atrauli

Overview & 2022 Context

Atrauli, Assembly Constituency number 73 in Aligarh district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 125,691 votes (51.81%), defeating VIRESH YADAV (SP), who polled 86,367 (35.6%). The victory margin was 39,324 votes. Of 402,493 electors, 242,598 votes were polled and turnout stood at 60.27%.

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: SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH (BJP, 125,691 / 51.81%); VIRESH YADAV (SP, 86,367 / 35.6%); DR. OMVIR SINGH (BSP, 23,134 / 9.54%); DHARMENDRA KUMAR (INC, 1,331 / 0.55%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH and VIRESH YADAV is the binding fact for seat 73, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 39,324 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Aligarh lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Aligarh anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Atrauli is Assembly Constituency number 73 under Aligarh (headquarters: Aligarh). 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. Atrauli sits inside that Aligarh 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: VIRESH YADAV (SP) by 8,867 votes; 2007: PREMLATA DEVI (BJP) by 21,150 votes; 2002: KALYAN SINGH (RTKP) by 35,148 votes; 1996: KALYAN SINGH (BJP) by 30,695 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH (BJP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 73 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: 402,493. Votes polled: 242,598. Turnout: 60.27%. Winner SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH (BJP): 125,691 (51.81%); runner-up VIRESH YADAV (SP): 86,367 (35.6%); margin: 39,324 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 125,926 (52.26%), female 115,023 (47.74%), other 1.

Turnout 60.27% with 242,598 votes from 402,493 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Aligarh.

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 Aligarh, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a landslide verdict for SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH (BJP) against VIRESH YADAV (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 73.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Atrauli is narrower: SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH (BJP) outpolled VIRESH YADAV (SP) by 39,324 votes under 60.27% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 73.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Atrauli. SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH (BJP) converted 125,691 votes; VIRESH YADAV (SP) had 86,367. Turnout 60.27% and margin 39,324 in seat 73 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 402,493, votes polled 242,598, and the head-to-head between SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH and VIRESH YADAV. District cues in Aligarh 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.