Didarganj

Overview & 2022 Context

Didarganj, Assembly Constituency number 350 in Azamgarh district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 74,342 votes (36.97%), defeating DR. KRISHNA MURARI VISHWAKARMA (BJP), who polled 60,781 (30.22%). The victory margin was 13,561 votes. Of 365,522 electors, 201,100 votes were polled and turnout stood at 55.02%.

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: KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU (SP, 74,342 / 36.97%); DR. KRISHNA MURARI VISHWAKARMA (BJP, 60,781 / 30.22%); BHUPENDRA SINGH “MUNNA” (BSP, 47,094 / 23.42%); HUZAIFA AMIR RASHADI (RUC, 10,070 / 5.01%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU and DR. KRISHNA MURARI VISHWAKARMA is the binding fact for seat 350, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 13,561 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Azamgarh belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Azamgarh, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Didarganj is Assembly Constituency number 350 under Azamgarh (headquarters: Azamgarh). 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. Didarganj sits inside that Azamgarh 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: SUKHDEV RAJBHAR (BSP) by 3,645 votes; 2012: ADIL SHEIKH (SP) by 2,227 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU (SP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 350 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: 365,522. Votes polled: 201,100. Turnout: 55.02%. Winner KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU (SP): 74,342 (36.97%); runner-up DR. KRISHNA MURARI VISHWAKARMA (BJP): 60,781 (30.22%); margin: 13,561 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 91,811 (45.89%), female 108,254 (54.11%).

Turnout 55.02% with 201,100 votes from 365,522 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Azamgarh.

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 Azamgarh, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a comfortable but contested win for KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU (SP) against DR. KRISHNA MURARI VISHWAKARMA (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 350.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Didarganj is narrower: KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU (SP) outpolled DR. KRISHNA MURARI VISHWAKARMA (BJP) by 13,561 votes under 55.02% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 350.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Didarganj. KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU (SP) converted 74,342 votes; DR. KRISHNA MURARI VISHWAKARMA (BJP) had 60,781. Turnout 55.02% and margin 13,561 in seat 350 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 365,522, votes polled 201,100, and the head-to-head between KAMLAKANT RAJBHAR URF PAPPU and DR. KRISHNA MURARI VISHWAKARMA. District cues in Azamgarh 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.