Meerganj

Overview & 2022 Context

Meerganj, Legislative Assembly number 119 in Bareilly district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. DR. D. C. VERMA of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 116,435 votes (50.92%), defeating SULTAN BEG (SP), who polled 83,955 (36.72%). The victory margin was 32,480 votes. Of 339,587 electors, 228,647 votes were polled and turnout stood at 67.33%.

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: DR. D. C. VERMA (BJP, 116,435 / 50.92%); SULTAN BEG (SP, 83,955 / 36.72%); KUNWAR BHANU PRATAP SINGH KUNWAR PRATAP (BSP, 19,189 / 8.39%); MU. ILIYAS (INC, 5,288 / 2.31%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between DR. D. C. VERMA and SULTAN BEG is the binding fact for seat 119, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 32,480 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bareilly is part of the Rohilkhand belt of north-central Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Bareilly, the district mixes agrarian plains with trading towns; farm incomes, small industry and communal–caste coalition arithmetic often travel together in election seasons. Administratively, Meerganj is Assembly Constituency number 119 under Bareilly (headquarters: Bareilly). 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. Meerganj sits inside that Bareilly 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: DR. D.C. VERMA (BJP) by 54,500 votes; 2012: SULTAN BAIG (BSP) by 7,921 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for DR. D. C. VERMA (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 119 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: 339,587. Votes polled: 228,647. Turnout: 67.33%. Winner DR. D. C. VERMA (BJP): 116,435 (50.92%); runner-up SULTAN BEG (SP): 83,955 (36.72%); margin: 32,480 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 122,740 (53.9%), female 104,985 (46.1%), other 1.

Turnout 67.33% with 228,647 votes from 339,587 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Bareilly.

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 Bareilly, voters also weighed farm incomes, small-town jobs, communal harmony, rural roads. a clear mandate for DR. D. C. VERMA (BJP) against SULTAN BEG (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 119.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Meerganj is narrower: DR. D. C. VERMA (BJP) outpolled SULTAN BEG (SP) by 32,480 votes under 67.33% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 119.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Meerganj. DR. D. C. VERMA (BJP) converted 116,435 votes; SULTAN BEG (SP) had 83,955. Turnout 67.33% and margin 32,480 in seat 119 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 339,587, votes polled 228,647, and the head-to-head between DR. D. C. VERMA and SULTAN BEG. District cues in Bareilly 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.