Five hours into counting, the Election Commission declared the first result of the Gujarat Assembly election. Bharatiya Janata Party’s Babu Bokhiria defeated old political rival Arjun Modhwadia of the Congress by a narrow margin of 1,855 votes.
This was the third face-off between between the senior leaders, who have now both won two consecutive terms. Arjun Modhwadia retained the seat between 2002 and 2012. In 2012, Bokhiria unseated Modhwadia.