Bithari Chainpur

Overview & 2022 Context

Bithari Chainpur, Assembly Constituency number 123 in Bareilly district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 115,417 votes (46.48%), defeating AGAM KUMAR MAURYA (SP), who polled 99,576 (40.1%). The victory margin was 15,841 votes. Of 394,190 electors, 248,292 votes were polled and turnout stood at 62.99%.

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 seat, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA (BJP, 115,417 / 46.48%); AGAM KUMAR MAURYA (SP, 99,576 / 40.1%); ASHISH PATEL (BSP, 22,727 / 9.15%); TOUFEEQ (AIMIM, 2,858 / 1.15%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA and AGAM KUMAR MAURYA is the binding fact for seat 123, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 15,841 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, Bithari Chainpur is Assembly Constituency number 123 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. Bithari Chainpur 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 KUMAR MISHRA (BJP) by 19,511 votes; 2012: VIRENDRA SINGH (BSP) by 3,415 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA (BJP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 123 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: 394,190. Votes polled: 248,292. Turnout: 62.99%. Winner DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA (BJP): 115,417 (46.48%); runner-up AGAM KUMAR MAURYA (SP): 99,576 (40.1%); margin: 15,841 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 135,949 (55.04%), female 111,058 (44.96%).

Turnout 62.99% with 248,292 votes from 394,190 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 DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA (BJP) against AGAM KUMAR MAURYA (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 123.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Bithari Chainpur is narrower: DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA (BJP) outpolled AGAM KUMAR MAURYA (SP) by 15,841 votes under 62.99% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 123.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Bithari Chainpur. DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA (BJP) converted 115,417 votes; AGAM KUMAR MAURYA (SP) had 99,576. Turnout 62.99% and margin 15,841 in seat 123 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 394,190, votes polled 248,292, and the head-to-head between DR. RAGHAVENDRA SHARMA and AGAM KUMAR MAURYA. 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.