Barhapur

Overview & 2022 Context

Barhapur, Legislative Assembly seat number 19 in Bijnor district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 100,100 votes (41.57%), defeating KAPIL KUMAR (SP), who polled 85,755 (35.61%). The victory margin was 14,345 votes. Of 359,056 electors, 240,791 votes were polled and turnout stood at 67.06%.

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: KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH (BJP, 100,100 / 41.57%); KAPIL KUMAR (SP, 85,755 / 35.61%); MOHAMMED GHAZI (BSP, 46,638 / 19.37%); AHASAN ALI (INC, 1,452 / 0.6%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH and KAPIL KUMAR is the binding fact for seat 19, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 14,345 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bijnor is part of the Rohilkhand belt of north-central Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Bijnor, the district mixes agrarian plains with trading towns; farm incomes, small industry and communal–caste coalition arithmetic often travel together in election seasons. Administratively, Barhapur is Legislative Assembly segment number 19 under Bijnor (headquarters: Bijnor). 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. Barhapur sits inside that Bijnor 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: SUSHANT KUMAR (BJP) by 9,824 votes; 2012: MOHD.GHAZI (BSP) by 27,375 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH (BJP) in Legislative Assembly number 19 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: 359,056. Votes polled: 240,791. Turnout: 67.06%. Winner KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH (BJP): 100,100 (41.57%); runner-up KAPIL KUMAR (SP): 85,755 (35.61%); margin: 14,345 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 123,990 (51.72%), female 115,731 (48.28%), other 2.

Turnout 67.06% with 240,791 votes from 359,056 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Bijnor.

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 Bijnor, voters also weighed farm incomes, small-town jobs, communal harmony, rural roads. a comfortable but contested win for KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH (BJP) against KAPIL KUMAR (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 19.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Barhapur is narrower: KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH (BJP) outpolled KAPIL KUMAR (SP) by 14,345 votes under 67.06% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 19.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Barhapur. KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH (BJP) converted 100,100 votes; KAPIL KUMAR (SP) had 85,755. Turnout 67.06% and margin 14,345 in seat 19 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 359,056, votes polled 240,791, and the head-to-head between KUNWAR SUSHANT SINGH and KAPIL KUMAR. District cues in Bijnor 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.