Shikohabad

Overview & 2022 Context

Shikohabad, Legislative Assembly segment number 98 in Firozabad district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. MUKESH VERMA of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 106,279 votes (45.09%), defeating OM PRAKASH VERMA (BJP), who polled 96,951 (41.13%). The victory margin was 9,328 votes. Of 357,741 electors, 235,728 votes were polled and turnout stood at 65.89%.

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: MUKESH VERMA (SP, 106,279 / 45.09%); OM PRAKASH VERMA (BJP, 96,951 / 41.13%); ANIL KUMAR (BSP, 25,445 / 10.79%); PRITY MISHRA (AIMIM, 2,630 / 1.12%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between MUKESH VERMA and OM PRAKASH VERMA is the binding fact for seat 98, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 9,328 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Firozabad lies in western Uttar Pradesh, linking the Upper Doab and Yamuna–Ganga plain economies. District headquarters at Firozabad anchors administration; sugarcane, wheat and peri-urban markets shape livelihoods alongside highway and rail corridors toward Delhi NCR. Administratively, Shikohabad is Assembly Constituency number 98 under Firozabad (headquarters: Firozabad). 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. Shikohabad sits inside that Firozabad 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: OM PRAKASH VERMA (SP) by 43,994 votes; 2007: — (—) by 0 votes; 2002: HARI OM (SP) by 18,365 votes; 1996: ASHOK YADAV (BJP) by 1,896 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for MUKESH VERMA (SP) in Assembly Constituency number 98 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: 357,741. Votes polled: 235,728. Turnout: 65.89%. Winner MUKESH VERMA (SP): 106,279 (45.09%); runner-up OM PRAKASH VERMA (BJP): 96,951 (41.13%); margin: 9,328 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 127,379 (54.41%), female 106,750 (45.59%), other 2.

Turnout 65.89% with 235,728 votes from 357,741 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Firozabad.

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 Firozabad, voters also weighed sugarcane prices, NCR connectivity, rural roads, urban services. a comfortable but contested win for MUKESH VERMA (SP) against OM PRAKASH VERMA (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 98.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Shikohabad is narrower: MUKESH VERMA (SP) outpolled OM PRAKASH VERMA (BJP) by 9,328 votes under 65.89% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 98.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Shikohabad. MUKESH VERMA (SP) converted 106,279 votes; OM PRAKASH VERMA (BJP) had 96,951. Turnout 65.89% and margin 9,328 in seat 98 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 357,741, votes polled 235,728, and the head-to-head between MUKESH VERMA and OM PRAKASH VERMA. District cues in Firozabad 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.