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The results of the Gujarat assembly elections are out. This time the Bharatiya Janata Party has created a new record. In Gujarat, which has 182 assembly seats, 156 BJP candidates won the elections. The Congress suffered the most. The Congress came straight down to 17 from 77 seats. Means Congress had to bear the loss of 60 seats. At the same time, this time only five candidates of the Aam Aadmi Party, which claimed to form the government, could win the elections. The SP candidate won one seat, while the remaining three seats were won by independent candidates.
BJP had fielded JV Kakadia from Dhari assembly seat in Amreli district. AAPâs Kantibhai Satsia was in front of him. Talking about the result, here BJPâs JV Kakadiya defeated AAPâs Kantibhai Satsia by 8,717 votes. BJP candidate got 46,466 votes while AAP got 37,749 votes here.
Deposit of nine including JDS candidate forfeited
The Congress could not even save its deposit on the Dhari seat. Congressâ Kirtikumar Borisagar, who came third, got 17,978 votes, which was 15.09 per cent of the total votes. Along with the Congress candidate, there were eight other candidates including the JDS candidate whose deposits were forfeited. JDS candidate Payal Bhavin Patel got only 2,242 i.e. 1.88 per cent votes. Whereas, NOTA got 1,845 votes here.
Congress got victory in 2017
The Congress had won the Dhari assembly seat in the 2017 assembly elections. In this election, Congress had made JV Kakadia its candidate from this seat. He defeated BJPâs Dilip Sanghani by 15,000 votes. A total of 11 candidates were in the fray here. Apart from these two, the deposits of the other nine candidates were forfeited.
Congress had won four seats in Amreli district in 2017.
Four of the five seats in Amreli (Amreli, Rajula, Lathi and Sanwarkundla) were won by Congress candidates, while one seat was won by the BJP candidate.
Kakadiya who came from Congress won
JV Kakadia, who won on a BJP ticket in this election, is among those MLAs who have left the Congress during the last five years. In the 2012 elections, GPPâs Nalinbhai Nanjibhai Kotadia defeated Kokilaben Kakaria of INC from here. At the same time, earlier in 1998, 2002 and 2012, this seat went to BJPâs account for three consecutive times. Congress has won five times and BJP four times in Dhari seat in the 14 elections held so far.
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The results of the Gujarat assembly elections are out. This time the Bharatiya Janata Party has created a new record. In Gujarat, which has 182 assembly seats, 156 BJP candidates won the elections. The Congress suffered the most. The Congress came straight down to 17 from 77 seats. Means Congress had to bear the loss of 60 seats. At the same time, this time only five candidates of the Aam Aadmi Party, which claimed to form the government, could win the elections. The SP candidate won one seat, while the remaining three seats were won by independent candidates.
BJP had fielded JV Kakadia from Dhari assembly seat in Amreli district. AAPâs Kantibhai Satsia was in front of him. Talking about the result, here BJPâs JV Kakadiya defeated AAPâs Kantibhai Satsia by 8,717 votes. BJP candidate got 46,466 votes while AAP got 37,749 votes here.
Deposit of nine including JDS candidate forfeited
The Congress could not even save its deposit on the Dhari seat. Congressâ Kirtikumar Borisagar, who came third, got 17,978 votes, which was 15.09 per cent of the total votes. Along with the Congress candidate, there were eight other candidates including the JDS candidate whose deposits were forfeited. JDS candidate Payal Bhavin Patel got only 2,242 i.e. 1.88 per cent votes. Whereas, NOTA got 1,845 votes here.
Congress got victory in 2017
The Congress had won the Dhari assembly seat in the 2017 assembly elections. Congress had made JV Kakadia its candidate from this seat in this election. He defeated BJPâs Dilip Sanghani by 15,000 votes. A total of 11 candidates were in the fray here. Apart from these two, the deposits of the other nine candidates were forfeited.
Congress had won four seats in Amreli district in 2017.
Four of the five seats in Amreli (Amreli, Rajula, Lathi and Sanwarkundla) were won by Congress candidates, while one seat was won by the BJP candidate.
Kakadiya who came from Congress won
JV Kakadia, who won on a BJP ticket in this election, is among those MLAs who have left the Congress during the last five years. In the 2012 elections, GPPâs Nalinbhai Nanjibhai Kotadia defeated Kokilaben Kakaria of INC from here. At the same time, earlier in 1998, 2002 and 2012, this seat went to BJPâs account for three consecutive times. Congress has won five times and BJP four times in Dhari seat in the 14 elections held so far.