Koil

Overview & 2022 Context

Koil, Legislative Assembly segment number 75 in Aligarh district, produced a narrow contest in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. ANIL PARASHAR of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 108,067 votes (42.75%), defeating SHAZ ISHAQ (SP), who polled 103,039 (40.76%). The victory margin was 5,028 votes. Of 404,885 electors, 252,764 votes were polled and turnout stood at 62.43%.

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: ANIL PARASHAR (BJP, 108,067 / 42.75%); SHAZ ISHAQ (SP, 103,039 / 40.76%); MOHD BILAL (BSP, 23,016 / 9.11%); VIVEK BANSAL (INC, 15,550 / 6.15%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between ANIL PARASHAR and SHAZ ISHAQ is the binding fact for seat 75, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 5,028 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Aligarh lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Aligarh anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Koil is Assembly Constituency number 75 under Aligarh (headquarters: Aligarh). 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. Koil sits inside that Aligarh 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: ZAMEER ULLAH KHAN (SP) by 599 votes; 2007: MAHENDRA SINGH (BSP) by 4,235 votes; 2002: MAHENDER SINGH (BSP) by 7,717 votes; 1996: RAM SAKHI (BJP) by 23,598 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for ANIL PARASHAR (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 75 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: 404,885. Votes polled: 252,764. Turnout: 62.43%. Winner ANIL PARASHAR (BJP): 108,067 (42.75%); runner-up SHAZ ISHAQ (SP): 103,039 (40.76%); margin: 5,028 — a narrow contest relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 134,825 (53.82%), female 115,691 (46.18%).

Turnout 62.43% with 252,764 votes from 404,885 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Aligarh.

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 Aligarh, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a narrow contest for ANIL PARASHAR (BJP) against SHAZ ISHAQ (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 75.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Koil is narrower: ANIL PARASHAR (BJP) outpolled SHAZ ISHAQ (SP) by 5,028 votes under 62.43% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 75.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Koil. ANIL PARASHAR (BJP) converted 108,067 votes; SHAZ ISHAQ (SP) had 103,039. Turnout 62.43% and margin 5,028 in seat 75 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 404,885, votes polled 252,764, and the head-to-head between ANIL PARASHAR and SHAZ ISHAQ. District cues in Aligarh 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.