Matera

Overview & 2022 Context

Matera, Assembly Constituency number 284 in Bahraich district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. MARIYA of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 102,255 votes (48.14%), defeating ARUN VEER SINGH (BJP), who polled 91,827 (43.23%). The victory margin was 10,428 votes. Of 342,204 electors, 212,407 votes were polled and turnout stood at 62.07%.

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 Assembly Constituency, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: MARIYA (SP, 102,255 / 48.14%); ARUN VEER SINGH (BJP, 91,827 / 43.23%); AQIB ULLA KHAN (BSP, 8,918 / 4.2%); ALI AKBAR (INC, 2,964 / 1.4%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between MARIYA and ARUN VEER SINGH is the binding fact for seat 284, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 10,428 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bahraich belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Bahraich, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Matera is Legislative Assembly seat number 284 under Bahraich (headquarters: Bahraich). 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. Matera sits inside that Bahraich administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2017: YASAR SHAH (SP) by 1,595 votes; 2012: YASAR SHAH (SP) by 2,801 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for MARIYA (SP) in Assembly Constituency number 284 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: 342,204. Votes polled: 212,407. Turnout: 62.07%. Winner MARIYA (SP): 102,255 (48.14%); runner-up ARUN VEER SINGH (BJP): 91,827 (43.23%); margin: 10,428 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 107,607 (50.79%), female 104,252 (49.21%), other 1.

Turnout 62.07% with 212,407 votes from 342,204 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Bahraich.

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 Bahraich, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a comfortable but contested win for MARIYA (SP) against ARUN VEER SINGH (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 284.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Matera is narrower: MARIYA (SP) outpolled ARUN VEER SINGH (BJP) by 10,428 votes under 62.07% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 284.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Matera. MARIYA (SP) converted 102,255 votes; ARUN VEER SINGH (BJP) had 91,827. Turnout 62.07% and margin 10,428 in seat 284 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 342,204, votes polled 212,407, and the head-to-head between MARIYA and ARUN VEER SINGH. District cues in Bahraich 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.