Zaidpur (SC)

Overview & 2022 Context

Zaidpur, Assembly Constituency number 269 in Barabanki district, produced a narrow contest in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls. Gaurav Kumar of Samajwadi Party (SP) finished first with 113,558 votes (40.84%), defeating Ambrish Rawat (BJP), who polled 110,576 (39.77%). The victory margin was 2,982 votes. Of 396,995 electors, 278,025 votes were polled and turnout stood at 70.03%.

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 seat, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Gaurav Kumar (SP, 113,558 / 40.84%); Ambrish Rawat (BJP, 110,576 / 39.77%); Tanuj Punia (INC, 28,689 / 10.32%); Usha Singh (BSP, 18,400 / 6.62%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Gaurav Kumar and Ambrish Rawat is the binding fact for seat 269, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 2,982 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Barabanki sits in the Awadh cultural-administrative region of central Uttar Pradesh. With headquarters at Barabanki, the district combines rural blocks and urban/service nodes; welfare delivery, farm distress and migration to cities are recurring voter concerns. Administratively, Zaidpur is Assembly Constituency number 269 under Barabanki (headquarters: Barabanki). 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. Zaidpur sits inside that Barabanki 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: UPENDRA SINGH (BJP) by 29,181 votes; 2012: RAMGOPAL (SP) by 23,041 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2022 win for Gaurav Kumar (SP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 269 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: 396,995. Votes polled: 278,025. Turnout: 70.03%. Winner Gaurav Kumar (SP): 113,558 (40.84%); runner-up Ambrish Rawat (BJP): 110,576 (39.77%); margin: 2,982 — a narrow contest relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 150,011 (54.16%), female 126,976 (45.84%).

Turnout 70.03% with 278,025 votes from 396,995 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Barabanki.

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 Barabanki, voters also weighed welfare delivery, farm distress, migration, urban services. a narrow contest for Gaurav Kumar (SP) against Ambrish Rawat (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 269.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Zaidpur is narrower: Gaurav Kumar (SP) outpolled Ambrish Rawat (BJP) by 2,982 votes under 70.03% turnout, and that is the 2022 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 269.

Reading 2022 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Zaidpur. Gaurav Kumar (SP) converted 113,558 votes; Ambrish Rawat (BJP) had 110,576. Turnout 70.03% and margin 2,982 in seat 269 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 396,995, votes polled 278,025, and the head-to-head between Gaurav Kumar and Ambrish Rawat. District cues in Barabanki 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.