Haidergarh (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Haidergarh, Legislative Assembly number 272 in Barabanki district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Dinesh Rawat of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 117,113 votes (50.88%), defeating Ram Magan (SP), who polled 91,422 (39.72%). The victory margin was 25,691 votes. Of 349,784 electors, 230,187 votes were polled and turnout stood at 65.81%.

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: Dinesh Rawat (BJP, 117,113 / 50.88%); Ram Magan (SP, 91,422 / 39.72%); Shri Chandra (BSP, 12,239 / 5.32%); Nirmla Chaudhri (INC, 3,993 / 1.73%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Dinesh Rawat and Ram Magan is the binding fact for seat 272, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 25,691 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Barabanki sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Barabanki, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Haidergarh is Assembly Constituency number 272 under Barabanki (headquarters: Barabanki). 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. Haidergarh sits inside that Barabanki 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: Ram Magan (SP) by 11,529 votes; 2007: ARVIND KUMAR SINGH (SP) by 4,170 votes; 2002: RAJ NATH SINGH (BJP) by 25,636 votes; 1996: SURENDRA NATH (INC) by 4,174 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Dinesh Rawat (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 272 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: 349,784. Votes polled: 230,187. Turnout: 65.81%. Winner Dinesh Rawat (BJP): 117,113 (50.88%); runner-up Ram Magan (SP): 91,422 (39.72%); margin: 25,691 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 119,549 (52.12%), female 109,823 (47.88%), other 1.

Turnout 65.81% with 230,187 votes from 349,784 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Barabanki.

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 Barabanki, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a clear mandate for Dinesh Rawat (BJP) against Ram Magan (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 272.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Haidergarh is narrower: Dinesh Rawat (BJP) outpolled Ram Magan (SP) by 25,691 votes under 65.81% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 272.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Haidergarh. Dinesh Rawat (BJP) converted 117,113 votes; Ram Magan (SP) had 91,422. Turnout 65.81% and margin 25,691 in seat 272 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 349,784, votes polled 230,187, and the head-to-head between Dinesh Rawat and Ram Magan. District cues in Barabanki 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.