Chandausi (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Chandausi, Legislative Assembly seat number 31 in Sambhal district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. GULAB DEBI of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 112,890 votes (49.46%), defeating KM VIMLESH KUMARI (SP), who polled 77,523 (33.96%). The victory margin was 35,367 votes. Of 383,406 electors, 228,264 votes were polled and turnout stood at 59.54%.

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: GULAB DEBI (BJP, 112,890 / 49.46%); KM VIMLESH KUMARI (SP, 77,523 / 33.96%); RAN VIJAY SINGH (BSP, 30,481 / 13.35%); MITHLESH KUMARI (INC, 1,595 / 0.7%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between GULAB DEBI and KM VIMLESH KUMARI is the binding fact for seat 31, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 35,367 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Sambhal is part of the Rohilkhand belt of north-central Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Sambhal, the district mixes agrarian plains with trading towns; farm incomes, small industry and communal–caste coalition arithmetic often travel together in election seasons. Administratively, Chandausi is Legislative Assembly segment number 31 under Sambhal (headquarters: Sambhal). 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. Chandausi sits inside that Sambhal 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: LAXMI GAUTAM (SP) by 4,007 votes; 2007: GIRISH CHANDRA (BSP) by 7,282 votes; 2002: GULAB DEVI (BJP) by 700 votes; 1996: GULAB DEVI (BJP) by 33,259 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for GULAB DEBI (BJP) in Legislative Assembly number 31 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: 383,406. Votes polled: 228,264. Turnout: 59.54%. Winner GULAB DEBI (BJP): 112,890 (49.46%); runner-up KM VIMLESH KUMARI (SP): 77,523 (33.96%); margin: 35,367 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 122,756 (54.14%), female 103,963 (45.86%), other 1.

Turnout 59.54% with 228,264 votes from 383,406 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Sambhal.

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 Sambhal, voters also weighed farm incomes, small-town jobs, communal harmony, rural roads. a landslide verdict for GULAB DEBI (BJP) against KM VIMLESH KUMARI (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 31.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Chandausi is narrower: GULAB DEBI (BJP) outpolled KM VIMLESH KUMARI (SP) by 35,367 votes under 59.54% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 31.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Chandausi. GULAB DEBI (BJP) converted 112,890 votes; KM VIMLESH KUMARI (SP) had 77,523. Turnout 59.54% and margin 35,367 in seat 31 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 383,406, votes polled 228,264, and the head-to-head between GULAB DEBI and KM VIMLESH KUMARI. District cues in Sambhal 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.