Aurai (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Aurai, Assembly Constituency number 394 in Bhadohi district, produced a photo-finish in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Dinanath Bhashkar of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 93,691 votes (41.63%), defeating Anjani (SP), who polled 92,044 (40.9%). The victory margin was 1,647 votes. Of 377,692 electors, 225,069 votes were polled and turnout stood at 59.59%.

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: Dinanath Bhashkar (BJP, 93,691 / 41.63%); Anjani (SP, 92,044 / 40.9%); Kamala Shankar (BSP, 28,413 / 12.62%); Sanjoo Devi (INC, 2,694 / 1.2%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Dinanath Bhashkar and Anjani is the binding fact for seat 394, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 1,647 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bhadohi belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Gyanpur, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Aurai is Legislative Assembly seat number 394 under Bhadohi (headquarters: Gyanpur). 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. Aurai sits inside that Bhadohi 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: MADHUBALA (SP) by 21,873 votes; 2007: RANG NATH MISHRA (BSP) by 2,731 votes; 2002: UDAY BHAN SINGH (BSP) by 6,494 votes; 1996: RANGNATH (BJP) by 12,224 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Dinanath Bhashkar (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 394 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: 377,692. Votes polled: 225,069. Turnout: 59.59%. Winner Dinanath Bhashkar (BJP): 93,691 (41.63%); runner-up Anjani (SP): 92,044 (40.9%); margin: 1,647 — a photo-finish relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 110,669 (49.45%), female 113,145 (50.55%).

Turnout 59.59% with 225,069 votes from 377,692 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Bhadohi.

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 Bhadohi, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a photo-finish for Dinanath Bhashkar (BJP) against Anjani (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 394.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Aurai is narrower: Dinanath Bhashkar (BJP) outpolled Anjani (SP) by 1,647 votes under 59.59% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 394.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Aurai. Dinanath Bhashkar (BJP) converted 93,691 votes; Anjani (SP) had 92,044. Turnout 59.59% and margin 1,647 in seat 394 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 377,692, votes polled 225,069, and the head-to-head between Dinanath Bhashkar and Anjani. District cues in Bhadohi 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.