Bakshi Kaa Talab

Overview & 2022 Context

Bakshi Kaa Talab, Legislative Assembly seat number 169 in Lucknow district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. YOGESH SHUKLA of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 147,922 votes (46.34%), defeating GOMTI YADAV (SP), who polled 120,134 (37.64%). The victory margin was 27,788 votes. Of 456,965 electors, 319,192 votes were polled and turnout stood at 69.85%.

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: YOGESH SHUKLA (BJP, 147,922 / 46.34%); GOMTI YADAV (SP, 120,134 / 37.64%); SALAUDDIN 'MUSSAN' (BSP, 35,167 / 11.02%); LALAN KUMAR (INC, 9,056 / 2.84%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between YOGESH SHUKLA and GOMTI YADAV is the binding fact for seat 169, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 27,788 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Lucknow sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Lucknow, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Bakshi Kaa Talab is Legislative Assembly segment number 169 under Lucknow (headquarters: Lucknow). 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. Bakshi Kaa Talab sits inside that Lucknow 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: AVINASH TRIVEDI (BJP) by 17,584 votes; 2012: GOMTI YADAV (SP) by 1,899 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for YOGESH SHUKLA (BJP) in Legislative Assembly number 169 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: 456,965. Votes polled: 319,192. Turnout: 69.85%. Winner YOGESH SHUKLA (BJP): 147,922 (46.34%); runner-up GOMTI YADAV (SP): 120,134 (37.64%); margin: 27,788 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 173,800 (54.69%), female 144,007 (45.31%), other 1.

Turnout 69.85% with 319,192 votes from 456,965 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Lucknow.

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 Lucknow, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a clear mandate for YOGESH SHUKLA (BJP) against GOMTI YADAV (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 169.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Bakshi Kaa Talab is narrower: YOGESH SHUKLA (BJP) outpolled GOMTI YADAV (SP) by 27,788 votes under 69.85% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 169.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Bakshi Kaa Talab. YOGESH SHUKLA (BJP) converted 147,922 votes; GOMTI YADAV (SP) had 120,134. Turnout 69.85% and margin 27,788 in seat 169 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 456,965, votes polled 319,192, and the head-to-head between YOGESH SHUKLA and GOMTI YADAV. District cues in Lucknow 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.