Kadipur (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Kadipur, Legislative Assembly segment number 191 in Sultanpur district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 96,405 votes (43.4%), defeating BHAGELU RAM (SP), who polled 70,682 (31.82%). The victory margin was 25,723 votes. Of 379,507 electors, 222,116 votes were polled and turnout stood at 58.53%.

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, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM (BJP, 96,405 / 43.4%); BHAGELU RAM (SP, 70,682 / 31.82%); HEERA LAL (BSP, 46,388 / 20.88%); NIKLESH SAROJ (INC, 3,248 / 1.46%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM and BHAGELU RAM is the binding fact for seat 191, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 25,723 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Sultanpur sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Sultanpur, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Kadipur is Assembly Constituency number 191 under Sultanpur (headquarters: Sultanpur). 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. Kadipur sits inside that Sultanpur 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: RAMCHANDRA CHAUDHARY (SP) by 38,110 votes; 2007: BHAGELU RAM (BSP) by 1,379 votes; 2002: BHAGELU RAM (BSP) by 6,457 votes; 1996: KASHI NATH (BJP) by 3,774 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 191 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: 379,507. Votes polled: 222,116. Turnout: 58.53%. Winner RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM (BJP): 96,405 (43.4%); runner-up BHAGELU RAM (SP): 70,682 (31.82%); margin: 25,723 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 105,567 (47.77%), female 115,420 (52.23%).

Turnout 58.53% with 222,116 votes from 379,507 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Sultanpur.

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 Sultanpur, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a clear mandate for RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM (BJP) against BHAGELU RAM (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 191.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Kadipur is narrower: RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM (BJP) outpolled BHAGELU RAM (SP) by 25,723 votes under 58.53% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 191.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Kadipur. RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM (BJP) converted 96,405 votes; BHAGELU RAM (SP) had 70,682. Turnout 58.53% and margin 25,723 in seat 191 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 379,507, votes polled 222,116, and the head-to-head between RAJESH KUMAR GAUTAM and BHAGELU RAM. District cues in Sultanpur 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.