Tamkuhi Raj

Overview & 2022 Context

Tamkuhi Raj, Legislative Assembly number 331 in Kushinagar district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. ASIM KUMAR of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 115,123 votes (50.75%), defeating UDAY NARAYAN (SP), who polled 48,651 (21.45%). The victory margin was 66,472 votes. Of 400,300 electors, 226,840 votes were polled and turnout stood at 56.67%.

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: ASIM KUMAR (BJP, 115,123 / 50.75%); UDAY NARAYAN (SP, 48,651 / 21.45%); AJAY KUMAR LALLU (INC, 33,496 / 14.77%); SANJAY (BSP, 16,854 / 7.43%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between ASIM KUMAR and UDAY NARAYAN is the binding fact for seat 331, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 66,472 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Kushinagar belongs to eastern Uttar Pradesh (Purvanchal), a densely settled agrarian belt. Headquartered at Kushinagar, the district’s politics often turn on remittances, farm labour, flood/embankment stress where rivers matter, and caste coalitions. Administratively, Tamkuhi Raj is Assembly Constituency number 331 under Kushinagar (headquarters: Kushinagar). 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. Tamkuhi Raj sits inside that Kushinagar 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: AJAY KUMAR LALLU (INC) by 18,114 votes; 2012: AJAY KUMAR 'LALLOO' (INC) by 5,860 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for ASIM KUMAR (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 331 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: 400,300. Votes polled: 226,840. Turnout: 56.67%. Winner ASIM KUMAR (BJP): 115,123 (50.75%); runner-up UDAY NARAYAN (SP): 48,651 (21.45%); margin: 66,472 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 103,533 (45.81%), female 122,479 (54.19%), other 3.

Turnout 56.67% with 226,840 votes from 400,300 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Kushinagar.

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 Kushinagar, voters also weighed migration remittances, farm labour, flood embankments, caste coalitions. a landslide verdict for ASIM KUMAR (BJP) against UDAY NARAYAN (SP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 331.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Tamkuhi Raj is narrower: ASIM KUMAR (BJP) outpolled UDAY NARAYAN (SP) by 66,472 votes under 56.67% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 331.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Tamkuhi Raj. ASIM KUMAR (BJP) converted 115,123 votes; UDAY NARAYAN (SP) had 48,651. Turnout 56.67% and margin 66,472 in seat 331 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 400,300, votes polled 226,840, and the head-to-head between ASIM KUMAR and UDAY NARAYAN. District cues in Kushinagar 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.