Rohaniya

Overview & 2022 Context

Rohaniya, Legislative Assembly seat number 387 in Varanasi district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. DR. SUNIL PATEL of Apna Dal (Soneylal) (ADAL) finished first with 118,663 votes (48.08%), defeating ABHAY PATEL (APNDLK), who polled 72,191 (29.25%). The victory margin was 46,472 votes. Of 408,653 electors, 246,814 votes were polled and turnout stood at 60.4%.

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: DR. SUNIL PATEL (ADAL, 118,663 / 48.08%); ABHAY PATEL (APNDLK, 72,191 / 29.25%); ARUN SINGH PATEL (BSP, 26,356 / 10.68%); RAJESHWAR SINGH PATEL (INC, 16,785 / 6.8%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between DR. SUNIL PATEL and ABHAY PATEL is the binding fact for seat 387, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 46,472 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Varanasi belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Varanasi, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Rohaniya is Legislative Assembly segment number 387 under Varanasi (headquarters: Varanasi). 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. Rohaniya sits inside that Varanasi 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: SURENDRA NARAYAN SINGH (BJP) by 57,553 votes; 2012: ANUPRIYA PATEL (AD) by 17,583 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for DR. SUNIL PATEL (ADAL) in Legislative Assembly number 387 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: 408,653. Votes polled: 246,814. Turnout: 60.4%. Winner DR. SUNIL PATEL (ADAL): 118,663 (48.08%); runner-up ABHAY PATEL (APNDLK): 72,191 (29.25%); margin: 46,472 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 138,016 (56.18%), female 107,652 (43.82%).

Turnout 60.4% with 246,814 votes from 408,653 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Varanasi.

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 Varanasi, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a landslide verdict for DR. SUNIL PATEL (ADAL) against ABHAY PATEL (APNDLK) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 387.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Rohaniya is narrower: DR. SUNIL PATEL (ADAL) outpolled ABHAY PATEL (APNDLK) by 46,472 votes under 60.4% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 387.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Rohaniya. DR. SUNIL PATEL (ADAL) converted 118,663 votes; ABHAY PATEL (APNDLK) had 72,191. Turnout 60.4% and margin 46,472 in seat 387 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 408,653, votes polled 246,814, and the head-to-head between DR. SUNIL PATEL and ABHAY PATEL. District cues in Varanasi 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.