Shikarpur

Overview & 2022 Context

Shikarpur, Assembly Constituency number 69 in Bulandshahr district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Anil Kumar of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 113,855 votes (52.93%), defeating Kiranpal Singh (RLD), who polled 58,172 (27.05%). The victory margin was 55,683 votes. Of 334,480 electors, 215,093 votes were polled and turnout stood at 64.31%.

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: Anil Kumar (BJP, 113,855 / 52.93%); Kiranpal Singh (RLD, 58,172 / 27.05%); Mu Rafik (BSP, 37,358 / 17.37%); ZiaurRahman (INC, 1,542 / 0.72%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Anil Kumar and Kiranpal Singh is the binding fact for seat 69, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 55,683 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bulandshahr lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Bulandshahr anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Shikarpur is Legislative Assembly seat number 69 under Bulandshahr (headquarters: Bulandshahr). 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. Shikarpur sits inside that Bulandshahr 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: MUKESH SHARMA (SP) by 8,403 votes; 2007: VASDEV SINGH (BSP) by 4,274 votes; 2002: MUNSHI LAL GAUTAM (BJP) by 925 votes; 1993: RAM PRASAD (BJP) by 14,222 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Anil Kumar (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 69 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: 334,480. Votes polled: 215,093. Turnout: 64.31%. Winner Anil Kumar (BJP): 113,855 (52.93%); runner-up Kiranpal Singh (RLD): 58,172 (27.05%); margin: 55,683 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 110,441 (51.81%), female 102,707 (48.19%).

Turnout 64.31% with 215,093 votes from 334,480 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Bulandshahr.

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 Bulandshahr, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a landslide verdict for Anil Kumar (BJP) against Kiranpal Singh (RLD) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 69.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Shikarpur is narrower: Anil Kumar (BJP) outpolled Kiranpal Singh (RLD) by 55,683 votes under 64.31% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 69.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Shikarpur. Anil Kumar (BJP) converted 113,855 votes; Kiranpal Singh (RLD) had 58,172. Turnout 64.31% and margin 55,683 in seat 69 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 334,480, votes polled 215,093, and the head-to-head between Anil Kumar and Kiranpal Singh. District cues in Bulandshahr 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.