Gujarat Election Results 2022: AAP State Chief Gopal Italia Loses Katargam Seat By Over 60k Votes
Aam Aadmi Party’s candidate from Katargam seat Gopal Italia lost by 64,629 votes. He was defeated by Vinod Moradiya of the BJP. He received 55,713 votes.
Gujarat Election Results 2022: Aam Aadmi Party’s candidate from Katargam seat Gopal Italia lost by 64,629 votes. He was defeated by Vinod Moradiya of the BJP. He received 55,713 votes as per Election Commission trends.
According to the EC trends, the Bharatiya Janata Party was leading on 172 seats at 6.45 pm, followed by the Congress on 1 seat. Gujarat has been a BJP stronghold for long and the party has set its sights on returning to power for the seventh term. The saffron party has won 147 seats so far.
In the 2017 Assembly polls, the BJP won 99 of the total 182 seats. The party has been in power in the state for the last 27 years.
Earlier in November, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the party's chief ministerial face Isudan Gadhvi, state unit chief Gopal Italia and leader Alpesh Kathiria were on course to win their seats by huge margins in the upcoming Assembly elections.
The counting of votes for the Gujarat Assembly elections began on Thursday at 8 am.
The counting in Gujarat began at 37 centres in 33 districts.
Gujarat Chief Electoral Officer P Bharathi said that 182 counting observers, 182 election officers, and 494 assistant election officers are on duty for the counting process. There will be an additional 78 Assistant Election Officers for the counting of votes. In addition, 71 additional Assistant Election Officers have been assigned responsibility for the electronically transmitted postal ballot system in the previous polls
Assembly elections in Gujarat were held in two phases on December 1 and 5 respectively.
(With ANI Inputs)
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