Visavadar Election Result 2022 Live Updates: AAP Wins in This Gujarat Seat
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Visavadar 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 Visavadar Assembly constituency in Gujarat, which falls under the Junagadh Lok Sabha seat.
AAP has won in Gujarat's Visavadar constituency.
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Visavadar Results
In Visavadar constituency, it is a fight between Harshadbhai Krushnadas Koradia of BJP, Karsanbhai Narainbhai Vaddoriay of Congress, and Bhupat Bhayani of Aam Aadmi Party.
In 2017, the seat had been won by Ribadiya Harshadkumar Madhavajibhai. The winning candidate was Congress. The BJP candidate Patel Kirit Balubhai had come in second place.
In the 2012 Assembly election, the seat had been won by Keshubhai Savdasbhai Patel of the GPP. The BJP candidate Bhalala Kanubhai Mepabhai 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.