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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’s Sanjay Sukhabhai Koradia defeated sitting MLA and Congress candidate Bhikhabhai Galabhai Joshi by 40,256 votes in Junagadh assembly seat in Junagadh district. BJP candidate got 84,616 votes while Congress got 44,360 votes here. The third number was AAP’s Chetankumar Harsukhbhai Gajera. He got 28,306 votes, which was 17.4 percent of the total votes. The deposits of six including the BSP candidate were forfeited. Whereas, NOTA got 2,002 votes.
BJP got three seats in Junagadh district
Junagadh assembly seat comes in Junagadh district. There are total 5 seats in this district. In this election, BJP won three out of five seats in the district. At the same time, the Congress was successful in winning one seat. Apart from this, one seat also went to your account.
Congress got victory in 2017
The Congress had won the Junagadh seat in the 2017 assembly elections. In this election, Bhikhabhai Galabhai Joshi of INC won this seat by defeating six-time MLA and BJP candidate Mahendrabhai Mashru by 6,084 votes. A total of 14 candidates were in the fray here. Apart from these two, the deposits of the remaining 12 candidates were forfeited.
BJP registered fifth victory
The BJP has so far won five elections on the Junagadh seat. The BJP had won this seat for four consecutive terms from 1998 to 2012. Mahendrabhai Mashru fought on behalf of the BJP in all these four elections and won the party. However, he had to face defeat in the 2017 elections. Coming back this time, the BJP has again registered a victory. Mashru had won the seat twice as an independent candidate in 1990 and 1995 before joining the BJP. In the total 14 elections held so far on Junagadh seat, six times this seat has gone to the account of the Congress and five times to the account of the BJP. Twice the independents and once the Bharatiya Jana Sangh had won here.
