Bidhuna

Overview & 2022 Context

Bidhuna, Legislative Assembly segment number 202 in Auraiya district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Rekha Verma of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 97,257 votes (42.54%), defeating Riya Shakya (BJP), who polled 89,492 (39.15%). The victory margin was 7,765 votes. Of 364,682 electors, 228,608 votes were polled and turnout stood at 62.69%.

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, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Rekha Verma (SP, 97,257 / 42.54%); Riya Shakya (BJP, 89,492 / 39.15%); Gaurav Raghuvanshi (BSP, 32,220 / 14.09%); Sanjiv Kumar (JANADIP, 3,927 / 1.72%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Rekha Verma and Riya Shakya is the binding fact for seat 202, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 7,765 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Auraiya lies along the central Ganga–Yamuna Doab of Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Auraiya, the district mixes intensive agriculture with industrial/trading towns; jobs, farm prices and urban services are recurrent campaign themes. Administratively, Bidhuna is Assembly Constituency number 202 under Auraiya (headquarters: Auraiya). 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. Bidhuna sits inside that Auraiya 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: PRAMOD KUMAR (SP) by 18,106 votes; 2007: DHANI RAM (SP) by 296 votes; 2002: VINAY SHAKYA (BSP) by 7,859 votes; 1996: DHANI RAM VERMA (SP) by 13,581 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Rekha Verma (SP) in Assembly Constituency number 202 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: 364,682. Votes polled: 228,608. Turnout: 62.69%. Winner Rekha Verma (SP): 97,257 (42.54%); runner-up Riya Shakya (BJP): 89,492 (39.15%); margin: 7,765 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 122,901 (54.08%), female 104,351 (45.92%), other 3.

Turnout 62.69% with 228,608 votes from 364,682 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Auraiya.

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 Auraiya, voters also weighed jobs, farm prices, urban services, industrial corridors. a comfortable but contested win for Rekha Verma (SP) against Riya Shakya (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 202.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Bidhuna is narrower: Rekha Verma (SP) outpolled Riya Shakya (BJP) by 7,765 votes under 62.69% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 202.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Bidhuna. Rekha Verma (SP) converted 97,257 votes; Riya Shakya (BJP) had 89,492. Turnout 62.69% and margin 7,765 in seat 202 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 364,682, votes polled 228,608, and the head-to-head between Rekha Verma and Riya Shakya. District cues in Auraiya 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.