Purwa

Overview & 2022 Context

Purwa, Assembly Constituency number 167 in Unnao district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. ANIL KUMAR SINGH of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 133,827 votes (52.26%), defeating UDAY RAJ (SP), who polled 102,766 (40.13%). The victory margin was 31,061 votes. Of 415,472 electors, 256,076 votes were polled and turnout stood at 61.64%.

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: ANIL KUMAR SINGH (BJP, 133,827 / 52.26%); UDAY RAJ (SP, 102,766 / 40.13%); VINOD KUMAR (BSP, 10,557 / 4.12%); UROOSA IMRAN RANA (INC, 1,878 / 0.73%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between ANIL KUMAR SINGH and UDAY RAJ is the binding fact for seat 167, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 31,061 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Unnao sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Unnao, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Purwa is Legislative Assembly number 167 under Unnao (headquarters: Unnao). 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. Purwa sits inside that Unnao 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: UDAY RAJ (SP) by 27,901 votes; 2007: UDAY RAJ (SP) by 4,247 votes; 2002: UDAI RAJ (SP) by 9,917 votes; 1996: UDAI RAJ (SP) by 1,810 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for ANIL KUMAR SINGH (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 167 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: 415,472. Votes polled: 256,076. Turnout: 61.64%. Winner ANIL KUMAR SINGH (BJP): 133,827 (52.26%); runner-up UDAY RAJ (SP): 102,766 (40.13%); margin: 31,061 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 130,670 (51.15%), female 124,773 (48.85%).

Turnout 61.64% with 256,076 votes from 415,472 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Unnao.

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 Unnao, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a clear mandate for ANIL KUMAR SINGH (BJP) against UDAY RAJ (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 167.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Purwa is narrower: ANIL KUMAR SINGH (BJP) outpolled UDAY RAJ (SP) by 31,061 votes under 61.64% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 167.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Purwa. ANIL KUMAR SINGH (BJP) converted 133,827 votes; UDAY RAJ (SP) had 102,766. Turnout 61.64% and margin 31,061 in seat 167 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 415,472, votes polled 256,076, and the head-to-head between ANIL KUMAR SINGH and UDAY RAJ. District cues in Unnao 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.