Jahanabad

Overview & 2022 Context

Jahanabad, Assembly Constituency number 238 in Fatehpur district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 78,503 votes (41.11%), defeating MADANGOPAL VERMA (SP), who polled 60,311 (31.58%). The victory margin was 18,192 votes. Of 311,482 electors, 190,975 votes were polled and turnout stood at 61.31%.

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: RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL (BJP, 78,503 / 41.11%); MADANGOPAL VERMA (SP, 60,311 / 31.58%); ADITYA PANDEY (BSP, 39,205 / 20.53%); KAMLA DEVI (INC, 3,550 / 1.86%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL and MADANGOPAL VERMA is the binding fact for seat 238, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 18,192 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, Jahanabad is Legislative Assembly seat number 238 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. Jahanabad 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: MADAN GOPAL VERMA (SP) by 36,211 votes; 2007: ADITYA PANDEY (BSP) by 5,308 votes; 2002: MADAN GOPAL VARMA (SP) by 468 votes; 1996: QASIM HASAN (BSP) by 14,581 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 238 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: 311,482. Votes polled: 190,975. Turnout: 61.31%. Winner RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL (BJP): 78,503 (41.11%); runner-up MADANGOPAL VERMA (SP): 60,311 (31.58%); margin: 18,192 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 101,064 (53.24%), female 88,749 (46.76%).

Turnout 61.31% with 190,975 votes from 311,482 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 clear mandate for RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL (BJP) against MADANGOPAL VERMA (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 238.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Jahanabad is narrower: RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL (BJP) outpolled MADANGOPAL VERMA (SP) by 18,192 votes under 61.31% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 238.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Jahanabad. RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL (BJP) converted 78,503 votes; MADANGOPAL VERMA (SP) had 60,311. Turnout 61.31% and margin 18,192 in seat 238 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 311,482, votes polled 190,975, and the head-to-head between RAJENDRA SINGH PATEL and MADANGOPAL VERMA. 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.