Sagri

Overview & 2022 Context

Sagri, Legislative Assembly number 345 in Azamgarh district, produced a clear mandate in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 83,093 votes (42.69%), defeating BANDANA SINGH (BJP), who polled 60,578 (31.12%). The victory margin was 22,515 votes. Of 336,378 electors, 194,654 votes were polled and turnout stood at 57.87%.

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: HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL (SP, 83,093 / 42.69%); BANDANA SINGH (BJP, 60,578 / 31.12%); SHANKAR YADAV (BSP, 41,006 / 21.07%); PANKAJ MAURYA (JANADIP, 2,415 / 1.24%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL and BANDANA SINGH is the binding fact for seat 345, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 22,515 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Azamgarh belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Azamgarh, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Sagri is Assembly Constituency number 345 under Azamgarh (headquarters: Azamgarh). 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. Sagri sits inside that Azamgarh 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: ABHAY NARAYAN (SP) by 9,251 votes; 2007: SARVESH KUMAR SINGH (SP) by 7,135 votes; 2002: MALIK MASOOD (BSP) by 640 votes; 1996: RAM PYARE (SP) by 13,019 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL (SP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 345 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: 336,378. Votes polled: 194,654. Turnout: 57.87%. Winner HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL (SP): 83,093 (42.69%); runner-up BANDANA SINGH (BJP): 60,578 (31.12%); margin: 22,515 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 91,987 (47.78%), female 100,542 (52.22%), other 1.

Turnout 57.87% with 194,654 votes from 336,378 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Azamgarh.

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 Azamgarh, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a clear mandate for HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL (SP) against BANDANA SINGH (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 345.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Sagri is narrower: HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL (SP) outpolled BANDANA SINGH (BJP) by 22,515 votes under 57.87% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 345.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Sagri. HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL (SP) converted 83,093 votes; BANDANA SINGH (BJP) had 60,578. Turnout 57.87% and margin 22,515 in seat 345 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 336,378, votes polled 194,654, and the head-to-head between HRIDAY NARAYAN SINGH PATEL and BANDANA SINGH. District cues in Azamgarh 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.