Sahibabad

Overview & 2022 Context

Sahibabad, Legislative Assembly segment number 55 in Ghaziabad district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 322,882 votes (67.03%), defeating AMARPAL SHARMA (SP), who polled 108,047 (22.43%). The victory margin was 214,835 votes. Of 1,021,035 electors, 481,732 votes were polled and turnout stood at 47.18%.

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: SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA (BJP, 322,882 / 67.03%); AMARPAL SHARMA (SP, 108,047 / 22.43%); AJIT KUMAR PAL (BSP, 24,136 / 5.01%); SANGEETA TYAGI (INC, 10,273 / 2.13%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA and AMARPAL SHARMA is the binding fact for seat 55, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 214,835 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Ghaziabad lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Ghaziabad anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Sahibabad is Assembly Constituency number 55 under Ghaziabad (headquarters: Ghaziabad). 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. Sahibabad sits inside that Ghaziabad 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: SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA (BJP) by 150,685 votes; 2012: AMARPAL (BSP) by 24,348 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 55 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: 1,021,035. Votes polled: 481,732. Turnout: 47.18%. Winner SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA (BJP): 322,882 (67.03%); runner-up AMARPAL SHARMA (SP): 108,047 (22.43%); margin: 214,835 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 270,972 (56.41%), female 209,401 (43.59%), other 3.

Turnout 47.18% with 481,732 votes from 1,021,035 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Ghaziabad.

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 Ghaziabad, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a landslide verdict for SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA (BJP) against AMARPAL SHARMA (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 55.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Sahibabad is narrower: SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA (BJP) outpolled AMARPAL SHARMA (SP) by 214,835 votes under 47.18% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 55.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Sahibabad. SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA (BJP) converted 322,882 votes; AMARPAL SHARMA (SP) had 108,047. Turnout 47.18% and margin 214,835 in seat 55 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 1,021,035, votes polled 481,732, and the head-to-head between SUNIL KUMAR SHARMA and AMARPAL SHARMA. District cues in Ghaziabad 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.