Chharra

Overview & 2022 Context

Chharra, Legislative Assembly number 74 in Aligarh district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. RAVENDRA PAL SINGH of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 111,293 votes (45.75%), defeating LAXMI DHANGAR (SP), who polled 86,966 (35.75%). The victory margin was 24,327 votes. Of 387,108 electors, 243,251 votes were polled and turnout stood at 62.84%.

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: RAVENDRA PAL SINGH (BJP, 111,293 / 45.75%); LAXMI DHANGAR (SP, 86,966 / 35.75%); TILAK RAJ (BSP, 37,558 / 15.44%); AKHILESH KUMAR (INC, 1,792 / 0.74%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between RAVENDRA PAL SINGH and LAXMI DHANGAR is the binding fact for seat 74, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 24,327 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Aligarh lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Aligarh anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Chharra is Assembly Constituency number 74 under Aligarh (headquarters: Aligarh). 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. Chharra sits inside that Aligarh 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: RAVENDRA PAL SINGH (BJP) by 56,134 votes; 2012: RAKESH KUMAR (SP) by 4,786 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for RAVENDRA PAL SINGH (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 74 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: 387,108. Votes polled: 243,251. Turnout: 62.84%. Winner RAVENDRA PAL SINGH (BJP): 111,293 (45.75%); runner-up LAXMI DHANGAR (SP): 86,966 (35.75%); margin: 24,327 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 128,452 (53.07%), female 113,604 (46.93%), other 3.

Turnout 62.84% with 243,251 votes from 387,108 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Aligarh.

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 Aligarh, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a clear mandate for RAVENDRA PAL SINGH (BJP) against LAXMI DHANGAR (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 74.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Chharra is narrower: RAVENDRA PAL SINGH (BJP) outpolled LAXMI DHANGAR (SP) by 24,327 votes under 62.84% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 74.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Chharra. RAVENDRA PAL SINGH (BJP) converted 111,293 votes; LAXMI DHANGAR (SP) had 86,966. Turnout 62.84% and margin 24,327 in seat 74 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 387,108, votes polled 243,251, and the head-to-head between RAVENDRA PAL SINGH and LAXMI DHANGAR. District cues in Aligarh 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.