Gandhinagar South Election Result 2022: BJP's Alpesh Thakor wins seat with 1.3 lakh votes

The counting for Gujarat Assembly election elections 2022 is still underway. However, result for the Gandhinagar South seat has been declared wherein BJP's Alpesh Thakor bagged the seat. He won with a vote margin of 43,064 and secured 1,34,051 votes.

The BJP leader defeated Congress's Dr Himanshu Patel who is at number 2 and has secured 90,017 votes, followed by Aam Aadmi Party's Dolat Patel with 11,195 votes. Gandhinagar South went to polls in the second phase of elections in Gujarat on December 5.

Who is Alpesh Thakor, BJP candidate from Gandhinagar South seat?

Alpesh Thakor is the former Congress leader who joined the BJP in 2019. He won on the Congress ticket in 2017, but the leader lost his Radhanpur seat in bypoll held in 2019.

This time, the BJP has fielded Alpesh Thakor as their candidate for the Gandhinagar South constituency. Alpesh Thakor was one of the main faces of the anti-BJP campaign in the 2017 polls. Congress has fielded its spokesperson Himanshu Patel against Alpesh from the seat.

BJP has emerged victorious in the constituency for two consecutive terms. The seat, where most of the voters are from the urban areas, is a stronghold of the BJP. The seat came into existence from the Gandhinagar district after the delimitation in 2008. The BJP won both the 2012 and 2017 Assembly elections from the seat. In 2017, Shambhuji Thakor won the seat for BJP.

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