Nizamabad

Overview & 2022 Context

Nizamabad, Assembly Constituency number 348 in Azamgarh district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. ALAM BADI of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 79,835 votes (43.2%), defeating MANOJ (BJP), who polled 45,648 (24.7%). The victory margin was 34,187 votes. Of 327,480 electors, 184,818 votes were polled and turnout stood at 56.44%.

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 segment, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: ALAM BADI (SP, 79,835 / 43.2%); MANOJ (BJP, 45,648 / 24.7%); PIYUSH KUMAR SINGH (BSP, 44,657 / 24.16%); ABDURRAHMAN ANSARI (AIMIM, 6,100 / 3.3%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between ALAM BADI and MANOJ is the binding fact for seat 348, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 34,187 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Azamgarh belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Azamgarh, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Nizamabad is Legislative Assembly number 348 under Azamgarh (headquarters: Azamgarh). 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. Nizamabad sits inside that Azamgarh 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: ALAMBADI (SP) by 23,843 votes; 2007: ANGAD YADAV (BSP) by 13,398 votes; 2002: ALAMBADI (SP) by 4,956 votes; 1996: ALAM BADI (SP) by 4,887 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for ALAM BADI (SP) in Assembly Constituency number 348 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: 327,480. Votes polled: 184,818. Turnout: 56.44%. Winner ALAM BADI (SP): 79,835 (43.2%); runner-up MANOJ (BJP): 45,648 (24.7%); margin: 34,187 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 86,764 (47.3%), female 96,681 (52.7%).

Turnout 56.44% with 184,818 votes from 327,480 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Azamgarh.

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 Azamgarh, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a landslide verdict for ALAM BADI (SP) against MANOJ (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 348.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Nizamabad is narrower: ALAM BADI (SP) outpolled MANOJ (BJP) by 34,187 votes under 56.44% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 348.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Nizamabad. ALAM BADI (SP) converted 79,835 votes; MANOJ (BJP) had 45,648. Turnout 56.44% and margin 34,187 in seat 348 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 327,480, votes polled 184,818, and the head-to-head between ALAM BADI and MANOJ. District cues in Azamgarh 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.