Garautha

Overview & 2022 Context

Garautha, Assembly Constituency number 225 in Jhansi district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Jawahar Lal Rajput of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 114,059 votes (48.3%), defeating Deep Narayan Singh (Deepak Yadav) (SP), who polled 80,397 (34.04%). The victory margin was 33,662 votes. Of 351,859 electors, 236,163 votes were polled and turnout stood at 67.12%.

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: Jawahar Lal Rajput (BJP, 114,059 / 48.3%); Deep Narayan Singh (Deepak Yadav) (SP, 80,397 / 34.04%); Bira Singh (BSP, 29,333 / 12.42%); Neha (INC, 3,303 / 1.4%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Jawahar Lal Rajput and Deep Narayan Singh (Deepak Yadav) is the binding fact for seat 225, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 33,662 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Jhansi is in the Bundelkhand region of southern Uttar Pradesh, where semi-arid plateaus and water stress shape agriculture. District headquarters Jhansi anchors administration; irrigation, drought relief and rural employment dominate local issue talk. Administratively, Garautha is Assembly Constituency number 225 under Jhansi (headquarters: Jhansi). 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. Garautha sits inside that Jhansi 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: DEEPNARAYAN SINGH (SP) by 15,798 votes; 1996: CHANDRA PAL SINGH YADAV (SP) by 1,278 votes; 1991: RANJIT SINGH JU DEO (INC) by 4,758 votes; 1989: RAANJIT SINGH JUBEV (INC) by 31,633 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Jawahar Lal Rajput (BJP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 225 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: 351,859. Votes polled: 236,163. Turnout: 67.12%. Winner Jawahar Lal Rajput (BJP): 114,059 (48.3%); runner-up Deep Narayan Singh (Deepak Yadav) (SP): 80,397 (34.04%); margin: 33,662 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 128,176 (54.52%), female 106,928 (45.48%).

Turnout 67.12% with 236,163 votes from 351,859 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Jhansi.

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 Jhansi, voters also weighed irrigation, drought relief, rural employment, farm distress. a clear mandate for Jawahar Lal Rajput (BJP) against Deep Narayan Singh (Deepak Yadav) (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 225.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Garautha is narrower: Jawahar Lal Rajput (BJP) outpolled Deep Narayan Singh (Deepak Yadav) (SP) by 33,662 votes under 67.12% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 225.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Garautha. Jawahar Lal Rajput (BJP) converted 114,059 votes; Deep Narayan Singh (Deepak Yadav) (SP) had 80,397. Turnout 67.12% and margin 33,662 in seat 225 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 351,859, votes polled 236,163, and the head-to-head between Jawahar Lal Rajput and Deep Narayan Singh (Deepak Yadav). District cues in Jhansi 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.