Fatehpur

Overview & 2022 Context

Fatehpur, Legislative Assembly segment number 240 in Fatehpur district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Chandra Prakash of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 96,839 votes (45.21%), defeating VIKRAM SINGH (BJP), who polled 88,238 (41.19%). The victory margin was 8,601 votes. Of 357,518 electors, 214,215 votes were polled and turnout stood at 59.92%.

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: Chandra Prakash (SP, 96,839 / 45.21%); VIKRAM SINGH (BJP, 88,238 / 41.19%); AYUV AHMAD (BSP, 20,363 / 9.51%); MOHSIN AHMAD (INC, 1,803 / 0.84%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Chandra Prakash and VIKRAM SINGH is the binding fact for seat 240, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 8,601 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Fatehpur sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Fatehpur, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Fatehpur is Assembly Constituency number 240 under Fatehpur (headquarters: Fatehpur). 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. Fatehpur sits inside that Fatehpur 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: SHED QASIM HASAN (SP) by 3,786 votes; 2007: RADHESHYAM GUPTA (BJP) by 13,494 votes; 2002: ANAND PRAKASH LOHDI (BSP) by 10,410 votes; 1996: RADHEY SHYAM GUPTA (BJP) by 4,634 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Chandra Prakash (SP) in Assembly Constituency number 240 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: 357,518. Votes polled: 214,215. Turnout: 59.92%. Winner Chandra Prakash (SP): 96,839 (45.21%); runner-up VIKRAM SINGH (BJP): 88,238 (41.19%); margin: 8,601 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 111,505 (52.52%), female 100,795 (47.48%), other 1.

Turnout 59.92% with 214,215 votes from 357,518 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Fatehpur.

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 Fatehpur, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for Chandra Prakash (SP) against VIKRAM SINGH (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 240.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Fatehpur is narrower: Chandra Prakash (SP) outpolled VIKRAM SINGH (BJP) by 8,601 votes under 59.92% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 240.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Fatehpur. Chandra Prakash (SP) converted 96,839 votes; VIKRAM SINGH (BJP) had 88,238. Turnout 59.92% and margin 8,601 in seat 240 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 357,518, votes polled 214,215, and the head-to-head between Chandra Prakash and VIKRAM SINGH. District cues in Fatehpur 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.