Barauli

Overview & 2022 Context

Barauli, Legislative Assembly number 72 in Aligarh district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Thakur Jaiveer Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 147,984 votes (60.49%), defeating NARENDRA KUMAR SHARMA (BSP), who polled 57,339 (23.44%). The victory margin was 90,645 votes. Of 380,035 electors, 244,630 votes were polled and turnout stood at 64.37%.

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: Thakur Jaiveer Singh (BJP, 147,984 / 60.49%); NARENDRA KUMAR SHARMA (BSP, 57,339 / 23.44%); Pramod Gaur (RLD, 32,781 / 13.4%); Gaurang Dev (INC, 2,377 / 0.97%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Thakur Jaiveer Singh and NARENDRA KUMAR SHARMA is the binding fact for seat 72, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 90,645 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, Barauli is Assembly Constituency number 72 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. Barauli 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: DALVEER SINGH (RLD) by 12,023 votes; 2007: THA JAIVEER SINGH (BSP) by 4,701 votes; 2002: THAKUR JAIVIR SINGH (BSP) by 10,494 votes; 1996: DAL VIR SINGH (INC) by 1,629 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Thakur Jaiveer Singh (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 72 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: 380,035. Votes polled: 244,630. Turnout: 64.37%. Winner Thakur Jaiveer Singh (BJP): 147,984 (60.49%); runner-up NARENDRA KUMAR SHARMA (BSP): 57,339 (23.44%); margin: 90,645 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 129,612 (53.33%), female 113,434 (46.67%), other 2.

Turnout 64.37% with 244,630 votes from 380,035 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 Thakur Jaiveer Singh (BJP) against NARENDRA KUMAR SHARMA (BSP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 72.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Barauli is narrower: Thakur Jaiveer Singh (BJP) outpolled NARENDRA KUMAR SHARMA (BSP) by 90,645 votes under 64.37% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 72.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Barauli. Thakur Jaiveer Singh (BJP) converted 147,984 votes; NARENDRA KUMAR SHARMA (BSP) had 57,339. Turnout 64.37% and margin 90,645 in seat 72 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 380,035, votes polled 244,630, and the head-to-head between Thakur Jaiveer Singh and NARENDRA KUMAR SHARMA. 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.