Kanth

Overview & 2022 Context

Kanth, Assembly Constituency number 25 in Moradabad district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Kamal Akhtar of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 134,692 votes (49.01%), defeating Rajesh Kumar Singh Urf Chunnu (BJP), who polled 91,514 (33.3%). The victory margin was 43,178 votes. Of 390,562 electors, 274,807 votes were polled and turnout stood at 70.36%.

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 segment, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Kamal Akhtar (SP, 134,692 / 49.01%); Rajesh Kumar Singh Urf Chunnu (BJP, 91,514 / 33.3%); Afaq Ali Khan (BSP, 36,341 / 13.22%); Raisuddin (AIMIM, 2,886 / 1.05%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Kamal Akhtar and Rajesh Kumar Singh Urf Chunnu is the binding fact for seat 25, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 43,178 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Moradabad is part of the Rohilkhand belt of north-central Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Moradabad, the district mixes agrarian plains with trading towns; farm incomes, small industry and communal–caste coalition arithmetic often travel together in election seasons. Administratively, Kanth is Legislative Assembly number 25 under Moradabad (headquarters: Moradabad). 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. Kanth sits inside that Moradabad 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: ANEESURREHMAN (PECP) by 1,534 votes; 2007: RIZWAN AHMAD KHAN (BSP) by 16,128 votes; 2002: RIZWAN AHMED KHAN (BSP) by 9,578 votes; 1996: RAJESH KUMAR URF CHUNNU (BJP) by 11,671 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Kamal Akhtar (SP) in Assembly Constituency number 25 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: 390,562. Votes polled: 274,807. Turnout: 70.36%. Winner Kamal Akhtar (SP): 134,692 (49.01%); runner-up Rajesh Kumar Singh Urf Chunnu (BJP): 91,514 (33.3%); margin: 43,178 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 144,560 (52.88%), female 128,797 (47.12%).

Turnout 70.36% with 274,807 votes from 390,562 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Moradabad.

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 Moradabad, voters also weighed farm incomes, small-town jobs, communal harmony, rural roads. a landslide verdict for Kamal Akhtar (SP) against Rajesh Kumar Singh Urf Chunnu (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 25.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Kanth is narrower: Kamal Akhtar (SP) outpolled Rajesh Kumar Singh Urf Chunnu (BJP) by 43,178 votes under 70.36% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 25.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Kanth. Kamal Akhtar (SP) converted 134,692 votes; Rajesh Kumar Singh Urf Chunnu (BJP) had 91,514. Turnout 70.36% and margin 43,178 in seat 25 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 390,562, votes polled 274,807, and the head-to-head between Kamal Akhtar and Rajesh Kumar Singh Urf Chunnu. District cues in Moradabad 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.