Purqazi (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Purqazi, Legislative Assembly segment number 13 in Muzaffarnagar district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Anil Kumar of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) finished first with 92,672 votes (43.08%), defeating Pramod Utwal (BJP), who polled 86,140 (40.04%). The victory margin was 6,532 votes. Of 329,110 electors, 215,114 votes were polled and turnout stood at 65.36%.

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, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Anil Kumar (RLD, 92,672 / 43.08%); Pramod Utwal (BJP, 86,140 / 40.04%); SURENDRA PAL SINGH (BSP, 27,778 / 12.91%); Uma Kiran (ASPKR, 2,321 / 1.08%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Anil Kumar and Pramod Utwal is the binding fact for seat 13, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 6,532 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Muzaffarnagar lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Muzaffarnagar anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Purqazi is Assembly Constituency number 13 under Muzaffarnagar (headquarters: Muzaffarnagar). 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. Purqazi sits inside that Muzaffarnagar 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: Pramod Utwal (BJP) by 11,253 votes; 2012: ANIL KUMAR (BSP) by 8,908 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Anil Kumar (RLD) in Assembly Constituency number 13 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: 329,110. Votes polled: 215,114. Turnout: 65.36%. Winner Anil Kumar (RLD): 92,672 (43.08%); runner-up Pramod Utwal (BJP): 86,140 (40.04%); margin: 6,532 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 116,003 (54.16%), female 98,175 (45.84%), other 1.

Turnout 65.36% with 215,114 votes from 329,110 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Muzaffarnagar.

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 Muzaffarnagar, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for Anil Kumar (RLD) against Pramod Utwal (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 13.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Purqazi is narrower: Anil Kumar (RLD) outpolled Pramod Utwal (BJP) by 6,532 votes under 65.36% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 13.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Purqazi. Anil Kumar (RLD) converted 92,672 votes; Pramod Utwal (BJP) had 86,140. Turnout 65.36% and margin 6,532 in seat 13 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 329,110, votes polled 215,114, and the head-to-head between Anil Kumar and Pramod Utwal. District cues in Muzaffarnagar 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.