Gujarat Assembly Election 2022: Bhavnagar Rural is one of the 182 Gujarat Legislative Assembly constituencies. It is located in Bhavnagar district. The Bhavnagar Rural constituency used to be Congress’ stronghold but since 2012, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) dominates the reason with victory in the last two assembly election- 2012 and 2017. The constituency is represented by BJP leader Parshottam Solanki in the assembly. Solanki is a big name in the region, he won the last two elections and has been MLA since 2012.
Solanki made it again. He won the constituency for the third time by a huge margin of 7,3484 votes.
He is a prominent Koli leader from Bhavnagar district, and the Koli community accounts for one third of state population having dominance in 34 Assembly seats in Gujarat.
In 2017, Solanki won the seat by defeating Congress candidate Kantibhai Tapubhai Chauhan with a margin of 30993 votes.
Bhavnagar Rural Assembly constituency falls under the Bhavnagar Lok sabha constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP candidate Bharatiben Dhirubhai Shiyal defeated Congress leader Patel Manharbhai Nagjibhai with a margin of 329519 votes.
The constituency has total 258,637 electorates.
Candidates for assembly election 2022:
- Congress- Revatsinh Gohil
- AAP- Khumansinh Gohil
- BJP- Parshottambhai Solanki
Meanwhile, the vote for the Legislative Assembly election was held on December 1 and 5, 2022 in two phases, to elect 182 members of the 15th Assembly. The counting of votes took place on December 8, 2022.
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