Bareilly Cantt

Overview & 2022 Context

Bareilly Cantt, Assembly Constituency number 125 in Bareilly district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. SANJEEV AGARWAL of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 98,931 votes (50.4%), defeating SUPRIYA ARON (SP), who polled 88,163 (44.91%). The victory margin was 10,768 votes. Of 378,743 electors, 196,290 votes were polled and turnout stood at 51.83%.

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 segment, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: SANJEEV AGARWAL (BJP, 98,931 / 50.4%); SUPRIYA ARON (SP, 88,163 / 44.91%); ANIL KUMAR (BSP, 3,370 / 1.72%); MOHD. ISLAM ANSARI (INC, 2,280 / 1.16%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between SANJEEV AGARWAL and SUPRIYA ARON is the binding fact for seat 125, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 10,768 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, Bareilly Cantt is Legislative Assembly number 125 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. Bareilly Cantt 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 — 2017: RAJESH AGARWAL (BJP) by 12,664 votes; 2012: RAJESH AGARWAL (BJP) by 18,949 votes; 1974: BADAM SINGH (BJS) by 4,479 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for SANJEEV AGARWAL (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 125 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: 378,743. Votes polled: 196,290. Turnout: 51.83%. Winner SANJEEV AGARWAL (BJP): 98,931 (50.4%); runner-up SUPRIYA ARON (SP): 88,163 (44.91%); margin: 10,768 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 107,991 (55.39%), female 86,979 (44.61%).

Turnout 51.83% with 196,290 votes from 378,743 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 comfortable but contested win for SANJEEV AGARWAL (BJP) against SUPRIYA ARON (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 125.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Bareilly Cantt is narrower: SANJEEV AGARWAL (BJP) outpolled SUPRIYA ARON (SP) by 10,768 votes under 51.83% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 125.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Bareilly Cantt. SANJEEV AGARWAL (BJP) converted 98,931 votes; SUPRIYA ARON (SP) had 88,163. Turnout 51.83% and margin 10,768 in seat 125 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 378,743, votes polled 196,290, and the head-to-head between SANJEEV AGARWAL and SUPRIYA ARON. 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.