Gujarat Election 2022: The 182-member Gujarat Assembly will soon undergo polls to elect members for its 15th term. In a press conference held today, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced that polling in the state for Gujarat Election 2022 will take place on in two phases — December 1 and 5 while the votes will be counted on December 10.

14th Gujarat Legislative Assembly

Governor: Acharya Dev Vrat 

Leader of the House: Bhupendrabhai Patel (BJP) 

Speaker: Nimaben Acharya (BJP) 

Deputy Speaker: Jethabhai Ahir (BJP) 

Leader of Opposition: Sukhram Rathva (Indian National Congress)

Gujarat Assembly Election 2022: Poll Schedule 

  • How many phases will the polling take place in?
    Two phases

  • When will the first phase of polling take place?
    December 1, 2022 (Thursday)

  • When will the second phase of polling take place?
    December 5, 2022 (Monday)

  • When will the counting of votes take place?
    December 8, 2022 (Thursday)

  • Date before which the election process will complete 
    December 10, 2022

Gujarat Assembly Constituencies

The Gujarat Assembly is a unicameral legislative assembly with 182 seats of which 13 constituencies are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 27 constituencies are for Scheduled Tribes.  

Gujarat Poll History

The state of Gujarat was created on May 1, 1960, and Jivraj Narayan Mehta of the Indian National Congress was the inaugural Chief Minister. The Bharatiya Janata Party was elected to power in the state for the first time in the year 1995 and since then the saffron party has mantained its winning streak, ruling over the state for almost 27 years now. 

Meanwhile, the Congress party which initially ruled over Gujarat after its creation had been in power six times which includes coalition government as well. 

Year  Chief Minister  Party 
1960-63 Jivraj Narayan Mehta  INC
1963-65 Balwantrai Mehta INC 
1965-71 Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai INC
1972-73 Ghanshyam Oza INC 
1973-74 Chimanbhai Patel INC 
1975-76 Babybhai Patel INC
1976-77 Madhav Singh Solanki  INC 
1977-80  Babubhai Patel Janata Party
1985 Madhav Singh Solanki  INC
1985-89 Amarsinh Chaudhary  INC
1989-90 Madhav Singh Solanki  INC 
1990-94 Chimanbhai Patel INC/Janata Dal
1994-95 Chhabildas Mehta  INC 
1995 Keshubhai Patel  BJP 
1995-96 Suresh Mehta  BJP
1996-97 Shankersinh Vaghela BJP 
1997-98 Dilip Parekh RJP
1998-2001 Keshubhai Patel  BJP 
2001-2014 Narendra Modi  BJP 
2014-16 Anandiben Patel BJP 
2016-2021 Vijay Rupani  BJP
2021-Present  Bhupendrabhai Patel  BJP

Gujarat Assembly Polls 2017

In the 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party obtained a simple majority winning 99 seats and formed the government in the state with Vijay Rupani as the Chief Minister. The Congress received 78 votes while Bharatiya Tribal Party got 2 votes, Nationalist Congress Party 1 seat and Independents got 2 seats.