Obra

Overview & 2022 Context

Obra, Legislative Assembly number 402 in Sonbhadra district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. SANJEEV KUMAR GOND of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 78,364 votes (48.03%), defeating ARVIND KUMAR alias SUNIL SINGH GOND (SP), who polled 51,922 (31.82%). The victory margin was 26,442 votes. Of 327,556 electors, 163,152 votes were polled and turnout stood at 49.81%.

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: SANJEEV KUMAR GOND (BJP, 78,364 / 48.03%); ARVIND KUMAR alias SUNIL SINGH GOND (SP, 51,922 / 31.82%); SUBHASH KHARWAR (BSP, 20,131 / 12.34%); RAMRAJ (INC, 4,519 / 2.77%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between SANJEEV KUMAR GOND and ARVIND KUMAR alias SUNIL SINGH GOND is the binding fact for seat 402, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 26,442 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Sonbhadra belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Sonbhadra, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Obra is Assembly Constituency number 402 under Sonbhadra (headquarters: Sonbhadra). 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. Obra sits inside that Sonbhadra 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: SANJIV KUMAR (BJP) by 44,269 votes; 2012: Sunil Kumar (BSP) by 7,060 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for SANJEEV KUMAR GOND (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 402 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: 327,556. Votes polled: 163,152. Turnout: 49.81%. Winner SANJEEV KUMAR GOND (BJP): 78,364 (48.03%); runner-up ARVIND KUMAR alias SUNIL SINGH GOND (SP): 51,922 (31.82%); margin: 26,442 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 87,755 (53.98%), female 74,824 (46.02%).

Turnout 49.81% with 163,152 votes from 327,556 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Sonbhadra.

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 Sonbhadra, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a landslide verdict for SANJEEV KUMAR GOND (BJP) against ARVIND KUMAR alias SUNIL SINGH GOND (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 402.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Obra is narrower: SANJEEV KUMAR GOND (BJP) outpolled ARVIND KUMAR alias SUNIL SINGH GOND (SP) by 26,442 votes under 49.81% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 402.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Obra. SANJEEV KUMAR GOND (BJP) converted 78,364 votes; ARVIND KUMAR alias SUNIL SINGH GOND (SP) had 51,922. Turnout 49.81% and margin 26,442 in seat 402 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 327,556, votes polled 163,152, and the head-to-head between SANJEEV KUMAR GOND and ARVIND KUMAR alias SUNIL SINGH GOND. District cues in Sonbhadra 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.