BJP secured over 52 % of votes in comparison with 2017, loses 14 seats in Saurashtra, Central, North Gujarat

Express News Service

AHMEDABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is creating historical past by profitable 156 seats in Gujarat meeting elections, in addition to BJP profitable 52.50% of the vote share. This has formally and by no means occurred earlier than within the historical past of Gujarat, the place the proportion of people that voted for BJP was better than 50%.

But in 37 seats in Gujarat itself, the BJP candidates obtained fewer votes than final yr. Of these seats, the Congress celebration received 9 and AAP received two. Three have been awarded to “others.” The BJP has suffered defeats in 14 of those 37 seats during which the constituencies included Dhanera, Bayad, Khedbrahma, Vav, Lunawada, Khambhat, Kankeraj, Danilimda, Botad, Kutiana, Somnath, Jamalpur Khadia, Jamjodhpur, Vijapur, and so forth.

Out of those 37 seats, there are 19 seats during which Aam Aadmi Party candidates have misplaced their deposits. While in 11 seats BJP has confronted defeat by greater than ten thousand votes, the BJP has been defeated by 25,064 votes within the necessary Dhari meeting seat in Saurashtra.

BJP candidate on the Dhanera seat of North Gujarat bought 60,357 votes, Congress bought 38,260 votes, whereas Aam Aadmi Party bought solely 1130 votes and the victorious impartial candidate bought 96,053 votes.

Importantly, this time NOTA has performed an necessary position in defeating BJP candidates on greater than three seats. BJP candidate Ashwin Kotwal has misplaced 1664 votes from the Khedbrahma seat reserved for tribals in North Gujarat, the place 7331 votes have been forged in NOTA.

While BJP candidate Mansingh Parmar has misplaced on Somnath seat of Saurashtra by solely 922 votes, 1530 votes have been forged in NOTA. Meanwhile, in North Gujarat, senior BJP chief Dilip Thakore has additionally confronted defeat on account of NOTA. Dilip Thakor has misplaced the Chansma seat by 1404 votes whereas 3811 votes have been forged in NOTA right here.

Talking about this district, the best variety of NOTA votes was forged in Ahmedabad district with 49,568 votes whereas the bottom was forged in Dang district with 1910 votes.

According to political analysts, the polling this time was decrease than in 2017, which has affected the votes obtained by the events. Data someplace exhibits that low voter turnout has benefited the BJP and the opposite events have misplaced extra.

A complete of three.13 crore voters voted within the Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, out of which 1.67 crore voted for the BJP, which is a median of 52.50 %.

For Graphic: BJP misplaced 14 meeting seats:

North Gujarat:

1.        Dhanera,
2.        Bayad,
3.        KhedBrahma,
4.        Vav,
5.        Kankeraj,
6.        Vijapur,

Central Gujarat:
1.        Lunawada,
2.        Khambhat,
3.        Danilimda,
4.        Jamalpur Khadia,

Saurashtra:
1.        Botad,
2.        Kutiana,
3.        Somnath,
4.        Jamjodhpur

AHMEDABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is creating historical past by profitable 156 seats in Gujarat meeting elections, in addition to BJP profitable 52.50% of the vote share. This has formally and by no means occurred earlier than within the historical past of Gujarat, the place the proportion of people that voted for BJP was better than 50%.

But in 37 seats in Gujarat itself, the BJP candidates obtained fewer votes than final yr. Of these seats, the Congress celebration received 9 and AAP received two. Three have been awarded to “others.” The BJP has suffered defeats in 14 of those 37 seats during which the constituencies included Dhanera, Bayad, Khedbrahma, Vav, Lunawada, Khambhat, Kankeraj, Danilimda, Botad, Kutiana, Somnath, Jamalpur Khadia, Jamjodhpur, Vijapur, and so forth.

Out of those 37 seats, there are 19 seats during which Aam Aadmi Party candidates have misplaced their deposits. While in 11 seats BJP has confronted defeat by greater than ten thousand votes, the BJP has been defeated by 25,064 votes within the necessary Dhari meeting seat in Saurashtra.

BJP candidate on the Dhanera seat of North Gujarat bought 60,357 votes, Congress bought 38,260 votes, whereas Aam Aadmi Party bought solely 1130 votes and the victorious impartial candidate bought 96,053 votes.

Importantly, this time NOTA has performed an necessary position in defeating BJP candidates on greater than three seats. BJP candidate Ashwin Kotwal has misplaced 1664 votes from the Khedbrahma seat reserved for tribals in North Gujarat, the place 7331 votes have been forged in NOTA.

While BJP candidate Mansingh Parmar has misplaced on Somnath seat of Saurashtra by solely 922 votes, 1530 votes have been forged in NOTA. Meanwhile, in North Gujarat, senior BJP chief Dilip Thakore has additionally confronted defeat on account of NOTA. Dilip Thakor has misplaced the Chansma seat by 1404 votes whereas 3811 votes have been forged in NOTA right here.

Talking about this district, the best variety of NOTA votes was forged in Ahmedabad district with 49,568 votes whereas the bottom was forged in Dang district with 1910 votes.

According to political analysts, the polling this time was decrease than in 2017, which has affected the votes obtained by the events. Data someplace exhibits that low voter turnout has benefited the BJP and the opposite events have misplaced extra.

A complete of three.13 crore voters voted within the Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, out of which 1.67 crore voted for the BJP, which is a median of 52.50 %.

For Graphic: BJP misplaced 14 meeting seats:

North Gujarat:

1.        Dhanera,
2.        Bayad,
3.        KhedBrahma,
4.        Vav,
5.        Kankeraj,
6.        Vijapur,

Central Gujarat:
1.        Lunawada,
2.        Khambhat,
3.        Danilimda,
4.        Jamalpur Khadia,

Saurashtra:
1.        Botad,
2.        Kutiana,
3.        Somnath,
4.        Jamjodhpur