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Ahmedabad Election Result 2022 LIVE Updates: BJP candidate and CM Bhupendra Patel and Congress candidate Jagdish Thakor are the key contenders.
Updated : Dec 08, 2022, 04:10 PM IST
Gujarat Assembly Election 2022: BJP's Bhupendra Patel, who is the current chief minister of Gujarat, has won from Ghatlodia Assembly seat by a margin of 1.92 lakh votes. He will take oath as chief minister of Gujarat for the second time on December 12. Patel defeated Congress's Amee Yagnik and garnered nearly 2 lakh votes. The counting of votes for the Gujarat Assembly Elections began at 8 am Thursday. As per the latest update, the ruling BJP has crossed the majority mark of 95 in Gujarat. BJP is leading on 152 of the 182 seats, as per the official EC trends. The BJP hasn't lost an election since 1995 in Gujarat. The exit polls gave a clear edge to the BJP. The main fight is between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party which has been locked in a battle for the second spot.
Purnesh Modi, Kanubhai Desai and Hardik Patel were among those leading, besides Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi.
Results at 4 pm
11:00 am: Hardik Patel still leading from Viramgam with a vote margin of 11,664
10:30 am: Kiritsinh Sardarsinh Dabhi of BJP leads from Dholka seat
09:50 am: BJP's Kukrani Payal Manojkumar is leading from Naroda seat
09:45 am: BJP candidate Harshad Patel is leading from Sabarmati seat
09:25 am: CM Bhupendra Patel leads in early trends from Ghatlodia seat, Congress's Amee Yagnik trails
09:05 am: BJP's Hardik Patel is leading in the Viramgam Assembly seat, Congress leader Lakhabhai Bharwad trailing
8:31 am: Hardik Patel trails from Viramgam, a constituency in the Ahemadabad constituency.
8:28 am: Bhupendra Patel is leading from Ahemdabad's Ghatlodia. Overall, the BJP is ahead in 119 seats, Congress in 36 seats, and AAP ahead in 3 seats.
8:11 am: Early trends show that the BJP is leading in 20 seats, Congress in 7, and the Aam Aadmi Party in 1 seat.
7: 58 am: The Election Commission has made foolproof arrangements at the counting centers in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. They have put forth three-layered security inside the strong rooms. The inner cordon is manned by Central Armed Forces. They are covering the entire area via CCTV cameras.
Gujarat Assembly Election: Ahmedabad Assembly Constituency 2022
Assembly districts in Ahmedabad include Amraiwadi, Dariapur, Jamalpur-Khadia, Maninagar, Danilimda, Naranpura, Nikol, Naroda, Thakkarbapa Nagar, Bapunagar, Sabarmati, Asarwa, Daskroi, Dholka, Dhandhuka, Viramgam, Sanand, Ghatlodia, Vejalpur, Vatva, Ellisbridge.
Gujarat Assembly Election: Key Candidates
BJP - Bhupendra Patel
INC - Amee Yagnik
AAP - Vijay Patel