As it happened: Hat-trick for Modi in Gujarat polls
MangrolSo here are the 1st lead. BJP leads in 4 seats -- Mangrol, Visavadar, Dhrangadhar and Dholka
Polling in Gujarat was held in two phases on December 13 and 17.
Karamsibhai Virjibhai Patel of Congress is leading in Sanand
BJP is now leading in 14 seats while Congress is lagging behind with leads in just 8 seats as of now.
Congress is leading in Sanand and Amreli
Interestingly, in the early leads, Keshubhai Patel's GPP is nowhere in sight.
GPP is leading in Junagadh
Sanand: After the thirds round of voting, BJP is leading with 11,761 votesCongress: 8,876 votes
Amraiwadi: BJP leading with 5,182 votes Congress: 3,859 votes
Maninagar: Narendra Modi leading with 8,780 votes
Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta has got 1,050 votes
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Thakkarnager: Congress is leading with 5,473 votesBJP has got 4,442 votes
Sanand: After fourth round of counting, BJP continues to lead with 16,244Congress - 12,846
Amraiwadi: After second round of counting:BJP leads with 10,041 votesCongress has got 6,506 votes
Sabarmati: After second round of counting, BJP leads with 12,041Congress is reeling with 3,949 votesGPP has got 122 votes
Dholka: BJP is leading with 5,600 votesCongress has got 3,157 votes
Naranpura: After first round of counting, BJP leads with 6,806 votesCongress has got 1,743 votes
Ellis BridgeJagruti Pandya of GPP is trailing in Ellis Bridge
Viramgam: After first round, Congress is leading with 3,723 votes BJP has got 2,452
Maninagar: After second round of counting, BJP leads with 14,666 votes Congress has got 5,026
Jabalpur: Congress is leading with 7,503 votes BJP has got 3,224 votes
Jamalpur-Khadia: BJP is leading with 3,224 votes Congress has got 7,503 votes
Ellis Bridge: BJP's Rakesh Shah is leading with 6,506Congress has gotten 1,525 votesGPP's Jagruti Pandya has gotted 381
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Maninagar: After forth round of counting —BJP leads with 30,941 votesCongress has got 8,718 votes
Maninagar: After fifth round of counting:BJP takes clear lead with 40,886 votesCongress has got 9,810 votes
Sanand: BJP is leading with 27,985 votesCongress has got 19,521 votes
Vatva: BJP is leading by 5,000 votes
Ghatlodia: After fourth round of voting —BJP is leading with 21,648 votes Congress has got 10,887 votes
Maninagar: After sixth round of voting —BJP leading with 47,322 votesCongress reeling with 13,068 votes
Naranpura: Latest numbers:BJP gets 31,385 votesCongress gets 7,079 votes
Jamalpur-Khadia: Congress leads with 11,308 votesBJP gets with 5,218 votes
Sabarmati: After nineth round of voting —BJP leads with 54,883 votesCongress gets 27,028 votes
Dariyapur: Congress leading with 11,044 congress BJP trailing with 15,994
Congress leading in 4 of 5 constituencies in Gandhinagar district
| Congress | 4 |
| BJP | 1 |
| Total | 5 |
Keshubhai Patel of GPP leading in Visavadar
Congress stalwarts trailingCongress stalwarts Shaktisingh Gohil and Arjun Modhwani are trailing in Bhavnagar roral are and Porbandar respectively.
Bapunagar: BJP leading with 15,635 congress Congress trailing with 9,139
Sabarmati: After 11th round BJP leads with 70,368 votes Congress gets 31,508
Naranpura: After fifth round BJP leading with 38,740 votesCongress gets 9,070 votes
Amraiwadi: After seventh round BJP leads with 33,406 votesCongress gets 26,011
Viramgam: After seventh round Congress leads with 26,275 votesBJP gets 19,814 votes
Ellis Bridge: Congress trailing with gets 11508 votesBJP leading with 31,409 votesGPP gets 2,371 votes
Vejalpur: After third roundBJP lead with 21,741 votesCongress ltrailing with 3,991 votes
Ghatlodia: After seventh round BJP lead with 41,519 votesCongress leading with 17,863 voting
Ghatlodia: After seventh round BJP lead with 41,519 votesCongress leading with 17,863 voting
Maninagar: After nineth round BJP leading with 63,923 votesCongress gets 20,377
Ellis Bridge: After sixth round BJP 36,685 votesCongress 12,911 votesGPP 2,756
Nikole: Congress gets 2,975 votesBJP leads with a huge gap with 19,446 votes
Amraiwadi: BJP gets 38,703 votesCongress trailing with 28,673 votes
Dariyapur: After fifth round BJP lead with 26,691 votesCongress trailing with 20,090 votes
Sanand: After fifth round BJP lead with 45,295 votesCongress trailing with 41,117 votes
Jamalpur-Khadia: After fourth round Congress leading with with 17,335 votesBJP gets 5,724 votesKabaliwala gets 4,767 votes
Asarwa: BJP lead with 18,386 votesCongress trailing with 7,276 votes
Dholka:BJP lead with 31,680 votesCongress trailing with 24,565 votes
Ghatlodia:BJP lead with 48,865 votesCongress trailing with 19,442 votes
Ellis BridgeBJP leads with 50,738 votesCongress trailing with 16,045 votesGPP gest 3,791 votes
VatwaBJP leads with 40,648 votesCongress gets 8,943 votes
Vejalpur: After fourth roundBJP gets 27,619 votesCongress gest 5,667
Individual winners
- Finance minister Vaju Vala, wins for record seventh time from Rajkot West
- Congress leader Dr Tejasree Patel wins in Viramgam
- BJP's Arvind Patel wins in Sabarmati
- BJP leader RC Faldu trails
- BJP's Saurabh Patel wins from Akota
- BJP's Amit Shah wins in Naranpura
- Rakesh Shah from BJP wins in Ellis Bridge
- BJP's Janak Patel with in Karanj
- Paresh Dhanani of Congress wins in Amreli
ViramgamCongress leads with 49,583 votesBJP wins 41,282 votes
SanandCongress wins 62,568 votesBJP leads with 63,826 votes
Jamalpur-Khadia: Independent cabinet Sabir Kabaliwala leads with 22,033 votesCongress gets 21,966 votesBJP gets 6,939 votes
VejalpurBJP leading with 50,959 votesCongress gets 8,579 votes
DanilimdaBJP leading in 36,805 votesCongress wins 36,747 votes
Gujarat govt prepares for celebration after results
BJP starts preparing for celebration outside their Khanpur office
BJP celebrates outside the EC control roomVideo by Jitendra Dave
Counting beginsCounting of votes for all 68 assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh started at 8 am, Election Commission officials said.
Counting of votes for Gujarat Assembly elections, which witnessed a historic 71.32% voter turnout, has also begun for all the 182 constituencies, with pollsters predicting a third straight term in office for Narendra Modi.