Gujarat Election Results 2022 LIVE: BJP wins 22 seats, leads in 136; 16 for Cong

Rivaba Jadeja has won from Jamnagar North in a margin of over 50k.

“The Gujarat verdict is on expected lines as the entire power machinery was used for the benefit of one particular state and projects were shifted there. The Gujarat results don’t reflect the mood of the country. The results of the civic polls in Delhi and Himachal Pradesh Assembly, where the BJP has been defeated prove that,” Sharad Pawar said. 

“The Opposition left no stone unturned in defaming the people of Gujarat. The people have given a certificate that the BJP and the people of Gujarat are the best duos in the world. The people have not left any stone unturned in giving a befitting reply. There is no place in Gujarat for those who want to break the country. The BJP and the people of Gujarat are making a new beginning today,” state home minister Harsh Sanghavi said.

AAP’s Sanjay Singh said AAP has been able to penetrate into the bastion of PM Modi and the BJP. “The people of Gujarat have made AAP a national party. We will get nearly 15 per cent vote share in this election. Gujarat is the bastion of PM Modi and Amit Shah. Gujarat is a lab of the BJP. The BJP has been in power in Gujarat for 27 years and intruding that fort was not an easy job. AAP has penetrated into the bastion of the BJP,” Singh said while speaking to the media here accepting defeat in the Gujarat Assembly polls.

Congres’s Jignesh Mevani lost from Vadgam in a margin of 1,525 votes. BJP’s Manibbhai Vaghela got 45,359 votes.

Gujarat poll result again proved that people love PM Modi, we humbly accept the mandate, says CM Bhupendra Patel

As announced before the election, the BJP on Thursday reitreated that Bhupen Patel will be the chief minister of the new BJP government in Gujarat. The oath-taking ceremony will be held on December 12.

AAP’s Alpesh Kathirya wins party’s first seat, CM face Isudan Gadhvi loses

Union home minister Amit Shah earlier announced that Bhupen Patel will remain the chief minister of Gujarat.

In September 2021, Patel replaced Vijay Rupani as the chief minister of Gujarat.

Bhupen Patel’s ascension to the post was surprising as he never held a ministerial berth before.

Bhupen Patel is regarded as a non-controversial BJP veteran who has his ears on the ground.

Bhupen Patel won from Ghatlodia in 2017 as well.

Majura, Morbi, Dahod, Petlad and Viramgam are the five seats BJP has won so far

Hardik Patel wins from Viramgam. Patel who has been 

BJP is all set to smash its 2002 record registering its best-ever result in Gujarat. With the Congress and the AAP taking distant 2nd and 3rd positions, BJP is now left with the party’s past records to break.

Majura, Morbi, Dahod, Petlad are the four constituencies that BJP has won so far

Just over a month after a bridge collapse claimed 135 lives, BJP’s Kantilal Amrutiya on Thursday appeared on course to win from the Morbi assembly seat in Gujarat, taking an unassailable lead of over 16,000 votes over Congress rival Jaynatilal Patel.

Aam Aadmi Party’s candidate Pankaj Ransariya was in the third spot with over 6,000 votes.

After the end of the ninth round of counting of votes for Morbi seat of Saurashtra region, Amtrutiya had polled more than 37,500 votes while Patel got more than 20,000 votes. (PTI)

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday said the Gujarat Assembly election results, wherein the ruling BJP has put up an impressive performance, was on expected lines, and added that people suspect whether there was a tacit understanding between the saffron party and the AAP.

Gujarat Election Result 2022 LIVE: BJP wins Dahod

BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya posted a clip of Kejriwal’s pre-election speeches in which Kejriwal had claimed that BJP would be decimated in Gujarat. 

“I’m commenting on something which was widely expected. It’s the actual manifestation of the kind of development-anchored work that BJP, under the leadership of PM, has been undertaking. It’s a model for the whole country,” Puri on Gujarat result trends

“It is a victory of the party’s double-engine development agenda. The massive verdict reflects people’s trust in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. It is a victory of the agenda of development that the party has carried out in the state,” Gujarat BJP spokesperson Yamal Vyas said.

Patidar leader Hardik Patel now leading with 14,000 votes

BJP’s record in Gujarat is of 127 seats but going by the trends in which BJP is leading in over 150 seats, the party is set to break its own record. BJP is likely to break Congress’s 1985 record when Congress won 149 seats.

Defence minister Rajnath Singh hailed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s dominant start to counting of votes for the Gujarat Assembly election. The ruling BJP – on course to demolish the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party en route to a seventh term in power – has crossed the 150-mark in leads in the battle for the 182-member Assembly.

As the ruling BJP raced towards a record seventh straight term in Gujarat, party leader and state home minister Harsh Sanghavi on Thursday tweeted a message for party supporters, and people of the state. “How’s the JOSH Gujarat,” tweeted Sanghavi, as the Election Commission of India (ECI) trends showed the saffron party was leading in around 150 seats in the 182-member Gujarat assembly.

AAP candidate Karshanbhai Karmur leading with a total of 4,582 votes so far, in Jamnagar North. Congress’ Bipendrasinh Chatursinh Jadeja trailing on second & BJP’s Rivaba Jadeja on the third position. BJP -123; Congress-22; AAP-10 in early trends

Sitting Congress MLA Geniben Thakor trailing with 3,000 votes in Vaav constituency

BJP’s Amit Thakkar leading with 45k in Vejalpur

CM Bhupendra Patel leading with 34,000 votes in Ghatlodia

“There is pro-incumbency in Gujarat. We are creating a new record in Gujarat as the people of the state have immense faith in PM Modi,” defence minister Rajnath Singh said.

Congress leader Mukul Wasnik said it wont be right to conside Congress’s result in the Gujarat Assembly Election 2022 as bad. “Party witnessed good results in several areas, but not in others. It’ll be our effort to see how situation can be improved where results are good and what can be done where it isn’t as per expectation,” Mukul Wasnik said

Rivaba Jadeja is leading in Jamnagar North with 8,600 votes, acording to latest trends.

Celebrations begin in several parts of Ahmedabad with early trends giving big lead to the BJP

AAP’s Isudan Gadhav, AAP’s CM face, is now trailing

After leading in the first round of counting, Jignesh Mevani is now trailing in Vadgam in the next rounds of counting.

BJP ahead in 30 seats, Congress in 5 and AAP in 4, says Election Commission

After trailing for a short while, BJP’s Hardik Patel is now leading again overtaking Amarsinh Thakor.

BJP’s Kanti Amrutiya leading in Morbi, a crucial constituency after the bridge tragedy just before the election.  Amrutiya jumoed into the river during the rescue operation and won much praise. He had won the seat in 1995, 1998, 2002, 2007 and 2017.

AAP’s Gopal Italia is trailing, Isudhan Gadhvi is leading. Congress’s Jignesh Mevani, BJP’s Apesh Thakor leading.

BJP is set to make a huge gain in the Gujarat Assembly election result, according to early trends. Follow who is winning, who is trailing

According to News18, AAP is leading in the Viramgam seat from where BJP’s Hardik Patel was leading

As BJP is leading in over 100 seats in the early trends, Gujarat minister and BJP candidate from Surat West Purnesh Modi said BJP will break all records and get the maximum number of seats and the highest voting percentage.

BJP is leading in 117 seats, Congress in over 33 and AAP in 4, according to latest trend.

Latest leading trends show BJP is gaining over 100, Congress is leading at 29 and AAP at 4

According to the early trends, BJP’s Bhupen Patel, Congress’ Jignesh Mevani, BJP’s Alpesh Thakor, Hardik Patel, AAP’s Isudan Gadhvi are leading from the respective seats.

BJP is leading in Ghatlodia, the constituency of incumbent chief minister Bhupenbhai Patel. 

The leads of 46 seats are out in which BJP is leading 1t 35, Congress 10 and the AAP 1.

The Aam Aadmi Party is yet to take the lead in Gujarat as BJP is leading in 17 seats and Congress in 5, as of now,

The counting began with paper ballots with BJP registering early leads. The BJP is ahead in two seats while the Congress is leading in one seat.  

The counting of the 182-member Gujarat assembly begins with paper ballots. The trends will start coming after the EVM machine counting begins from 8.30am. 

Patidar leader Hardik Patel sounded confident of a massive mandate for his party. “Government is being formed on basis of work. No riots/terrorist attacks here in past 20 years. People know BJP met their expectations. They press ‘Lotus’ as their future will be safe under BJP. It did good governance and strengthened this trust,” he said adding that BJP is definitely going to win 135-145 seats.

Isudan Gadhvi was a media professional before his political stint. He was the editor of VTV Guajarati

Isudan Gadhvi joined the AAP in June 2021.

Born in Devbhoomi Dwarka in Gujarat, Isudan belongs to a farming family, His father is a farmer by profession.

Isudan studied Journalism and Mass Communication in Gujarat.

Isudan gained prominence after he exposed an alleged ₹150-crore scam of illegal deforestation.

BJP is predicted to sweep its stronghold Gujarat which will set the tone of the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Gujarat Election Result 2022 will also somewhat determine the place of a third front, if any, and Kejriwal’s role in it.

The AAP is expecting to make inroads in the BJP bastion which will be a big foot forward for its national ambition. The party fielded candidates in all 182 seats and is fighting for the No. 2 position in the state.

Already recognised as the state party in Delhi, Punjab and Goa, the AAP is just a state away from earning national party status. To earn a national party status, a political outfit needs to be recognized in at least four states, and to be recognised as a state party, it needs to win at least two seats and 6 per cent of votes polled in the Assembly election.

In a first, Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen contested in the Gujarat Assembly Election 2022 on 13 seats.

In the 2017 Assembly polls, BJP won 99 seats and Congress 77 seats, while two seats went to BTP, one to NCP, and three to independents. Ahead of this month’s elections, the BJP’s number in the House stood at 110 and Congress at 60 after 20 MLAs who won on Congress seats switched over to the BJP in the last five years, three of them quitting just ahead of the elections.

A total 70 political outfits and 624 independents were in the fray. Apart from the main rivals BJP, Congress and AAP, 101 candidates from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and 26 from the Bharatiya Tribal party (BTP) also contested.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, a star campaigner of the BJP in Gujarat, said Rahul Gandhi looks like Saddam Hussein.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath called AAP chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal ‘namoona’.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge compared PM Modi with Ravan and asked whether PM Modi has 100 heads like Ravan as his face is used in all elections

Ghatlodia: Incumbent chief minister Bhupendra Patel is contesting from here against Congress’s Amee Yajnik and AAP’s Vijay Patel.

Jamnagar North: Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja’s wife Rivaba Jadeja is contesting against Congress’ Bipendrasingh Jadeja and AAP’s Karsan Karmur.

Morbi: BJP’s Kantilal Amrutiya contests against Congress’s Jayantilal Jerajbhai Patel and AAP’s Pankaj Ransariya. The constituency is crucial because of the bridge collapse tragedy.

Khambalia: This is the seat from where AAP’s CM face Isudan Gadhvi is contesting. BJP’s Mulu Ayar Bera and Congress’ Vikram Madam are in the fray.

Rajkot West: BJP’s Darshita Shah is in a battle with AAP’s Dinesh Joshi and Congress’ Mansukhbhai.

Viramgam: Hardik Patel is contesting from the BJP. Lakhabhai Bharwad is the Congress candidate and Kunvarji Thakor is the AAP candidate.

Gandhinagar South: BJP’s Alpesh Thakor is up against AAP’s Dolat Patel and Congress’s Dr Himanshu V Patel

The two-phase Gujarat Assembly Election 2022 saw massive campaigning by the BJP with PM Modi addressing 31 rallies, apart from leading three road shows.

As the counting begins at 8am, postal ballots are to be opened first. From 8.30am, thecounting of EVMs will also start. 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.

A micro-observer, counting supervisor and counting assistant are assigned duty at each polling centre table. The entire counting process will be video graphed.

Big mandate for the BJP which has been in power in the state since 1998. In the 182-member assembly, the BJP was predicted seats in the range of 117-148. Despite AAP’s strong campaigning, exit polls give AAP the third pace with 3 to 13 seats, while the Congress was predicted to get somewhere between 30-51 seats.

The majority mark in Gujarat is 92.