Laharpur

Overview & 2022 Context

Laharpur, Assembly Constituency number 148 in Sitapur district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. ANIL KUMAR VERMA of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 112,987 votes (47.04%), defeating SUNEEL VERMA (BJP), who polled 99,832 (41.57%). The victory margin was 13,155 votes. Of 354,502 electors, 240,176 votes were polled and turnout stood at 67.75%.

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 seat, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: ANIL KUMAR VERMA (SP, 112,987 / 47.04%); SUNEEL VERMA (BJP, 99,832 / 41.57%); MO. JUNAID ANSARI (BSP, 19,809 / 8.25%); SANTOSH KUMAR SAXENA (AAAP, 2,144 / 0.89%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between ANIL KUMAR VERMA and SUNEEL VERMA is the binding fact for seat 148, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 13,155 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Sitapur sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Sitapur, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Laharpur is Assembly Constituency number 148 under Sitapur (headquarters: Sitapur). 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. Laharpur sits inside that Sitapur 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: MO. JASMIR ANSARI (BSP) by 17,672 votes; 2007: MOHD. JASMIR ANSARI (BSP) by 12,865 votes; 2002: ANIL KUMAR VERMA (SP) by 341 votes; 1996: BUNIYAD HUSAIN ANSARI (BSP) by 17,342 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for ANIL KUMAR VERMA (SP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 148 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: 354,502. Votes polled: 240,176. Turnout: 67.75%. Winner ANIL KUMAR VERMA (SP): 112,987 (47.04%); runner-up SUNEEL VERMA (BJP): 99,832 (41.57%); margin: 13,155 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 130,328 (54.44%), female 109,054 (45.56%), other 3.

Turnout 67.75% with 240,176 votes from 354,502 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Sitapur.

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 Sitapur, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for ANIL KUMAR VERMA (SP) against SUNEEL VERMA (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 148.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Laharpur is narrower: ANIL KUMAR VERMA (SP) outpolled SUNEEL VERMA (BJP) by 13,155 votes under 67.75% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 148.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Laharpur. ANIL KUMAR VERMA (SP) converted 112,987 votes; SUNEEL VERMA (BJP) had 99,832. Turnout 67.75% and margin 13,155 in seat 148 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 354,502, votes polled 240,176, and the head-to-head between ANIL KUMAR VERMA and SUNEEL VERMA. District cues in Sitapur 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.