Khaga (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Khaga, Legislative Assembly segment number 243 in Fatehpur district, produced a narrow contest in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. KRISHNA PASWAN of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 83,735 votes (41.84%), defeating RAMTHIRTH PARAMHANS (SP), who polled 78,226 (39.09%). The victory margin was 5,509 votes. Of 342,812 electors, 200,111 votes were polled and turnout stood at 58.37%.

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: KRISHNA PASWAN (BJP, 83,735 / 41.84%); RAMTHIRTH PARAMHANS (SP, 78,226 / 39.09%); DASHARATH LAL (BSP, 22,115 / 11.05%); OMPRAKASH GIHAR (INC, 3,773 / 1.89%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between KRISHNA PASWAN and RAMTHIRTH PARAMHANS is the binding fact for seat 243, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 5,509 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, Khaga is Assembly Constituency number 243 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. Khaga 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: KRISHNA PASWAN (BJP) by 18,922 votes; 2007: RANAVENDRA PRATAP (BJP) by 7,895 votes; 2002: MOHD. SHAFIR (BSP) by 3,074 votes; 1996: MUNNA LAL MAURYA (BSP) by 5,423 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for KRISHNA PASWAN (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 243 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: 342,812. Votes polled: 200,111. Turnout: 58.37%. Winner KRISHNA PASWAN (BJP): 83,735 (41.84%); runner-up RAMTHIRTH PARAMHANS (SP): 78,226 (39.09%); margin: 5,509 — a narrow contest relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 102,540 (51.49%), female 96,598 (48.51%).

Turnout 58.37% with 200,111 votes from 342,812 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 narrow contest for KRISHNA PASWAN (BJP) against RAMTHIRTH PARAMHANS (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 243.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Khaga is narrower: KRISHNA PASWAN (BJP) outpolled RAMTHIRTH PARAMHANS (SP) by 5,509 votes under 58.37% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 243.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Khaga. KRISHNA PASWAN (BJP) converted 83,735 votes; RAMTHIRTH PARAMHANS (SP) had 78,226. Turnout 58.37% and margin 5,509 in seat 243 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 342,812, votes polled 200,111, and the head-to-head between KRISHNA PASWAN and RAMTHIRTH PARAMHANS. 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.