Nighasan

Overview & 2022 Context

Nighasan, Legislative Assembly number 138 in Kheri district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Shashank Verma of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 126,488 votes (53.4%), defeating R S Kushwaha (SP), who polled 85,479 (36.09%). The victory margin was 41,009 votes. Of 340,374 electors, 236,880 votes were polled and turnout stood at 69.59%.

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: Shashank Verma (BJP, 126,488 / 53.4%); R S Kushwaha (SP, 85,479 / 36.09%); R A Usmani (BSP, 15,392 / 6.5%); Atal Kumar Shukla (INC, 2,762 / 1.17%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Shashank Verma and R S Kushwaha is the binding fact for seat 138, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 41,009 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Kheri sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Lakhimpur, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Nighasan is Assembly Constituency number 138 under Kheri (headquarters: Lakhimpur). 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. Nighasan sits inside that Kheri 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: AJAY (BJP) by 31,039 votes; 2007: KRISHNA GOPAL PATEL (SP) by 2,800 votes; 2002: R.S. KUSHWAHA (BSP) by 4,386 votes; 1996: RAM KUMAR VERMA (BJP) by 16,088 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Shashank Verma (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 138 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: 340,374. Votes polled: 236,880. Turnout: 69.59%. Winner Shashank Verma (BJP): 126,488 (53.4%); runner-up R S Kushwaha (SP): 85,479 (36.09%); margin: 41,009 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 125,395 (53.06%), female 110,920 (46.94%).

Turnout 69.59% with 236,880 votes from 340,374 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Kheri.

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 Kheri, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a landslide verdict for Shashank Verma (BJP) against R S Kushwaha (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 138.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Nighasan is narrower: Shashank Verma (BJP) outpolled R S Kushwaha (SP) by 41,009 votes under 69.59% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 138.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Nighasan. Shashank Verma (BJP) converted 126,488 votes; R S Kushwaha (SP) had 85,479. Turnout 69.59% and margin 41,009 in seat 138 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 340,374, votes polled 236,880, and the head-to-head between Shashank Verma and R S Kushwaha. District cues in Kheri 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.