Pathardeva

Overview & 2022 Context

Pathardeva, Assembly Constituency number 338 in Deoria district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. SURYA PRATAP SHAHI of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 93,858 votes (46.48%), defeating BRAHMASHANKAR TRIPATHI (SP), who polled 65,177 (32.28%). The victory margin was 28,681 votes. Of 338,872 electors, 201,933 votes were polled and turnout stood at 59.59%.

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 Legislative Assembly segment, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: SURYA PRATAP SHAHI (BJP, 93,858 / 46.48%); BRAHMASHANKAR TRIPATHI (SP, 65,177 / 32.28%); PARVEJ ALAM (BSP, 33,667 / 16.67%); AMBAR JAHAN (INC, 1,956 / 0.97%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between SURYA PRATAP SHAHI and BRAHMASHANKAR TRIPATHI is the binding fact for seat 338, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 28,681 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Deoria belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Deoria, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Pathardeva is Legislative Assembly number 338 under Deoria (headquarters: Deoria). 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. Pathardeva sits inside that Deoria 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: SURYA PRATAP SHAHI (BJP) by 42,997 votes; 2012: SHAKIR ALI (SP) by 4,554 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for SURYA PRATAP SHAHI (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 338 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: 338,872. Votes polled: 201,933. Turnout: 59.59%. Winner SURYA PRATAP SHAHI (BJP): 93,858 (46.48%); runner-up BRAHMASHANKAR TRIPATHI (SP): 65,177 (32.28%); margin: 28,681 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 92,524 (46.13%), female 108,039 (53.87%), other 3.

Turnout 59.59% with 201,933 votes from 338,872 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Deoria.

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 Deoria, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a clear mandate for SURYA PRATAP SHAHI (BJP) against BRAHMASHANKAR TRIPATHI (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 338.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Pathardeva is narrower: SURYA PRATAP SHAHI (BJP) outpolled BRAHMASHANKAR TRIPATHI (SP) by 28,681 votes under 59.59% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 338.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Pathardeva. SURYA PRATAP SHAHI (BJP) converted 93,858 votes; BRAHMASHANKAR TRIPATHI (SP) had 65,177. Turnout 59.59% and margin 28,681 in seat 338 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 338,872, votes polled 201,933, and the head-to-head between SURYA PRATAP SHAHI and BRAHMASHANKAR TRIPATHI. District cues in Deoria 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.