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Gujarat Election Results 2022: 'Brand Modi' shines bright to give BJP a record seventh term, AAP starts making inroads

Gujarat Election Results 2022 LIVE Updates: As per latest trends, the ruling party is leading in over 135 seats, way past the majority mark of 92.

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Falling in line with the exit polls, the trends for the Gujarat Assembly elections are showing a big victory for the BJP as the ruling party looks on course to retain power for a seventh consecutive term to equal Left Front’s feat in Bengal. As per the latest trends, the ruling party is leading in over 135 seats, way past the majority mark of 92. 

However, most of the votes counted so far were postal ballots which means the trends could significantly alter as counting of votes cast through EVMs progresses through the day.

The results of the two-phase elections, held earlier this month, will be watched more for the performance of the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) that seem to be locked in a battle to grab the status of the main opposition party in the state. 

Meanwhile, a victory for the BJP will not only give it a record seventh straigt term but also cement Narendra Modi's third bid for PM post in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. 

While the Congress was not expected to replicate its creditable performance of the last Assembly elections in 2017, a good showing by AAP would have helped its leader Arvind Kejriwal cement his place as a key challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in parliamentary elections due in 2024. 

The Modi government is struggling with rising inflation, slowing growth and joblessness, but economic troubles are unlikely to dent BJP's popularity in Gujarat that has been a bastion of the party for decades and where Modi was chief minister from 2001 to 2014. 

Gujarat has 182 Assembly seats and the majority mark is 92. Exit polls have predicted that the BJP will comfortably win a seventh straight term -- an outcome that will equal the Left Front's feat in West Bengal. 

A total 70 political outfits and 624 independents were in the fray. Apart from the main rivals BJP, Congress and AAP, 101 candidates from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and 26 from Bharatiya Tribal party (BTP) also contested. 

In the 2017 Assembly polls, BJP won 99 seats and Congress 77 seats, while two seats went to BTP, one to NCP, and three to independents. 

Ahead of this month's elections, the BJP's number in the House stood at 110 and Congress at 60 after 20 MLAs who won on Congress seats switched over to the BJP in the last five years, three of them quitting just ahead of the elections.

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