BJP Won Gujarat Elections: In the Gujarat assembly elections, BJP registered a historic victory by winning 156 seats and also broke the record by securing a significant number of seats with a huge margin. The margin of victory in two seats Ghatlodiya and Choryasi was close to two lakh. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, who won for the second consecutive term from Ghatlodiya, defeated his nearest rival by over 1.92 lakh votes. The margin of victory of BJP candidates in eight seats was between one lakh to one and a half lakh votes.
A section of the Patidar community voted against the BJP in the 2017 assembly elections against the backdrop of the quota agitation in Gujarat. In this election the voters of this group have returned to the ruling party in this election.
AAP did not get the support of Patidars.
In the Saurashtra region, the Congress had won the Patidar-dominated seats of Morbi, Tankara, Dhoraji and Amreli in 2017. While all these assembly constituencies went to the BJP this time. In Patidar-dominated Surat, where the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) relied on the community to win some seats, Patidars largely supported the ruling party.
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The BJP brought Hardik Patel, the leader of the Patidar reservation movement, into its fold from the Congress. He was fielded from the Viramgam assembly seat, from where he won with a huge margin of votes.
NOTA vote was also selected by the public
According to the Election Commission data, 5,01,202 or 1.5 percent of the votes in the state were NOTA. Which is less than 5,51,594 in 2017 assembly elections. The maximum number of NOTA votes polled was 7,331 in Khedbrahma seat, followed by 5,213 in Danta and 5,093 in Chhota Udaipur. There itself gujarat assembly elections In 2017, the share of NOTA vote has decreased by more than nine percent as compared to 2017.
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