Gujarat election results 2022: BJP's Ritaben wins with over 80,000 votes in Gandhinagar North

Gujarat Election 2022: The Gandhinagar Vidhan Sabha seat witnessed a tough contest as the electoral fight is three-cornered as Congress, AAP and BJP, all have fielded their candidates. BJP candidate Ritaben Patel finally won the Gandhinagar North Vidhan Sabha Chunav with around 80,623 votes while Congress' Virendrasinh Vaghela trailed with 53,355 votes.

In 2017, Congress' CJ Chavda won the Gandhinagar North assembly seat by defeating BJP's Ashokkumar Ranchhodbhai Patel by a margin of just 5,736 votes. The Gujarat Vidhan Sabha Chunav Results 2022 were declared December 8, 2022 where the Bhartiya Janata Party claimed a landslide victory winning 156 seats out of 182. Congress won 17 seats while AAP won 5 seats in its debut election in Gujarat.

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Gandhinagar North constituency was carved out in 2008. In 2012, BJP's Ashok Patel won with a thin margin of over 4,000 votes. In 2017, Congress leader CJ Chavda defeated Patel with nearly 4,700 votes.

Unhappy with his living conditions in Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar, Mahendrabhai Patni, a labourer, 35, also filed his nomination as an Independent from the Gandhinagar North seat. He had carried two sacks of Rs 1 coins to file his nomination fee of Rs 10,000 at the Election Commission office. 

Patni is among the 28 candidates who have filed nominations from Gandhinagar North. 

2017 RESULTS: 

In Gandhinagar North, Congress candidate CJ Chavda defeated BJP’s sitting MLA Ashokkumar Ranchhodbhai Patel by 5,736 votes. In 2012 state polls, BJP’s Patel defeated Congress’s Jugaji Nathaji Thakor by 8,011 votes.

The Congress is seeking to oust the BJP from power in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi where the saffron party has been in power for more than two decades.

Gujarat will vote in two phases on December 1 and 5. 

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