Sishamau

Overview & 2022 Context

Sishamau, Assembly Constituency number 213 in Kanpur Nagar district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 79,163 votes (50.37%), defeating SALIL VISHNOI (BJP), who polled 66,897 (42.57%). The victory margin was 12,266 votes. Of 274,888 electors, 157,157 votes were polled and turnout stood at 57.17%.

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: HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI (SP, 79,163 / 50.37%); SALIL VISHNOI (BJP, 66,897 / 42.57%); HAJEE SUHEL AHAMAD (INC, 5,616 / 3.57%); RAJNISH TIWARI (BSP, 2,937 / 1.87%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI and SALIL VISHNOI is the binding fact for seat 213, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 12,266 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Kanpur Nagar lies along the central Ganga–Yamuna Doab of Uttar Pradesh. Headquartered at Kanpur, the district mixes intensive agriculture with industrial/trading towns; jobs, farm prices and urban services are recurrent campaign themes. Administratively, Sishamau is Legislative Assembly seat number 213 under Kanpur Nagar (headquarters: Kanpur). 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. Sishamau sits inside that Kanpur Nagar 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: HAZI IRFAN SOLANKI (SP) by 5,826 votes; 2012: HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI (SP) by 19,663 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI (SP) in Assembly Constituency number 213 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: 274,888. Votes polled: 157,157. Turnout: 57.17%. Winner HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI (SP): 79,163 (50.37%); runner-up SALIL VISHNOI (BJP): 66,897 (42.57%); margin: 12,266 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 86,917 (55.63%), female 69,325 (44.37%).

Turnout 57.17% with 157,157 votes from 274,888 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Kanpur Nagar.

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 Kanpur Nagar, voters also weighed jobs, farm prices, urban services, industrial corridors. a comfortable but contested win for HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI (SP) against SALIL VISHNOI (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 213.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Sishamau is narrower: HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI (SP) outpolled SALIL VISHNOI (BJP) by 12,266 votes under 57.17% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 213.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Sishamau. HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI (SP) converted 79,163 votes; SALIL VISHNOI (BJP) had 66,897. Turnout 57.17% and margin 12,266 in seat 213 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 274,888, votes polled 157,157, and the head-to-head between HAJI IRFAN SOLANKI and SALIL VISHNOI. District cues in Kanpur Nagar 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.