Rajkot East Election Result 2022 Live Updates: BJP Wins in Gujarat Today
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Rajkot East Assembly Election Result 2022 Live Updates: It’s time for the results of the Gujarat Assembly Election 2022.
The BJP, Congress and AAP are battling it out in 182 seats of the Gujarat Assembly. Let’s now move on to the Rajkot East Assembly constituency in Gujarat, which falls under the Rajkot Lok Sabha seat.
BJP won Rajkot East Assembly constituency in Gujarat.
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Rajkot East Results
In Rajkot East constituency, it was a fight between Udaykumar Prabhatbhai Kangad of BJP, Indranil Rajguru of Congress, and Rahul Bhuva of Aam Aadmi Party.
In 2017, the seat had been won by Arvind Raiyani. The winning candidate was BJP. The Congress candidate Mitul Donga had come in second place.
In the 2012 Assembly election, the seat had been won by Rajguru Indranil Sanjaybhai of the Congress. The BJP candidate Shukla Kashyap Chimanbhai had come in second place.
The 2022 Assembly Election
The 2022 Gujarat election has been a hard-fought one. Voting for the 182 constituencies took place in two phases, on 1 and 5 December.
In all, there were 1,621 candidates in the fray. There were 788 candidates contesting in the 89 seats that went to polls in Phase 1, including 70 women candidates and 339 independents.
In the 93 seats in Phase 2, there were 833 candidates in all, including 69 female candidates and 285 independents.
There are a total of around 4.91 crore registered voters in Gujarat, of which around 51.6% are male voters and around 48.4% are female voters. There are also around 1,400 registered transgender voters.
In the 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, BJP had won 99 seats and Congress had secured 77 seats. BJP leader Vijay Rupani had taken charge once again as the chief minister of the state. It was the sixth consecutive time that BJP had won the Gujarat Assembly election.