Jangipur

Overview & 2022 Context

Jangipur, Legislative Assembly seat number 376 in Ghazipur district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 103,125 votes (44.64%), defeating RAM NARESH KUSHWAHA (BJP), who polled 68,062 (29.46%). The victory margin was 35,063 votes. Of 376,819 electors, 231,026 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: VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV (SP, 103,125 / 44.64%); RAM NARESH KUSHWAHA (BJP, 68,062 / 29.46%); DR. MUKESH SINGH (BSP, 47,857 / 20.71%); YOGENDRA KUSHWAHA (JANADIP, 2,598 / 1.12%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV and RAM NARESH KUSHWAHA is the binding fact for seat 376, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 35,063 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Ghazipur belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Ghazipur, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Jangipur is Legislative Assembly segment number 376 under Ghazipur (headquarters: Ghazipur). 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. Jangipur sits inside that Ghazipur administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2017: VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV (SP) by 3,239 votes; 2012: KAILASH (SP) by 9,464 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV (SP) in Legislative Assembly number 376 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: 376,819. Votes polled: 231,026. Turnout: 61.31%. Winner VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV (SP): 103,125 (44.64%); runner-up RAM NARESH KUSHWAHA (BJP): 68,062 (29.46%); margin: 35,063 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 115,415 (50.5%), female 113,117 (49.5%), other 1.

Turnout 61.31% with 231,026 votes from 376,819 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Ghazipur.

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 Ghazipur, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a landslide verdict for VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV (SP) against RAM NARESH KUSHWAHA (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 376.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Jangipur is narrower: VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV (SP) outpolled RAM NARESH KUSHWAHA (BJP) by 35,063 votes under 61.31% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 376.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Jangipur. VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV (SP) converted 103,125 votes; RAM NARESH KUSHWAHA (BJP) had 68,062. Turnout 61.31% and margin 35,063 in seat 376 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 376,819, votes polled 231,026, and the head-to-head between VIRENDRA KUMAR YADAV and RAM NARESH KUSHWAHA. District cues in Ghazipur 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.