Fatehpur Sikri

Overview & 2022 Context

Fatehpur Sikri, Legislative Assembly seat number 91 in Agra district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. BABULAL of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 112,095 votes (46.01%), defeating Brijesh Chahar (RLD), who polled 64,826 (26.61%). The victory margin was 47,269 votes. Of 359,005 electors, 243,649 votes were polled and turnout stood at 67.87%.

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: BABULAL (BJP, 112,095 / 46.01%); Brijesh Chahar (RLD, 64,826 / 26.61%); Dr. Mukesh Kumar Rajput (BSP, 59,641 / 24.48%); Hemant Singh Chahar (INC, 1,192 / 0.49%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between BABULAL and Brijesh Chahar is the binding fact for seat 91, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 47,269 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Agra lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Agra anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Fatehpur Sikri is Legislative Assembly segment number 91 under Agra (headquarters: Agra). 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 Sikri sits inside that Agra 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: SURAJPAL SINGH (BSP) by 5,623 votes; 2007: TH. SURAJPAL SINGH (BSP) by 1,449 votes; 2002: CHAUDHARY BABU LAL (RLD) by 19,103 votes; 1996: BABULAL (IND) by 29,688 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for BABULAL (BJP) in Legislative Assembly number 91 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: 359,005. Votes polled: 243,649. Turnout: 67.87%. Winner BABULAL (BJP): 112,095 (46.01%); runner-up Brijesh Chahar (RLD): 64,826 (26.61%); margin: 47,269 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 130,998 (54.16%), female 110,891 (45.84%).

Turnout 67.87% with 243,649 votes from 359,005 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Agra.

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 Agra, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a landslide verdict for BABULAL (BJP) against Brijesh Chahar (RLD) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 91.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Fatehpur Sikri is narrower: BABULAL (BJP) outpolled Brijesh Chahar (RLD) by 47,269 votes under 67.87% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 91.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Fatehpur Sikri. BABULAL (BJP) converted 112,095 votes; Brijesh Chahar (RLD) had 64,826. Turnout 67.87% and margin 47,269 in seat 91 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 359,005, votes polled 243,649, and the head-to-head between BABULAL and Brijesh Chahar. District cues in Agra 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.