In the 2012 elections, the BJP had bagged 115 seats, while the Congress had managed 61 seats.
The counting of votes for the 182-seat Gujarat assembly is underway
after a two-phase election to pick the new government in Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s home state
The results of the Gujarat elections are seen as a litmus test for the
Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
Six Exit Polls say the BJP will retain power in Gujarat, where the saffron party has ruled for almost two decades
As the counting of voting is in progress,indications are that BJP is leading in 105 seats thereby retaining power in the state
The halfway mark is set at 92 in the 182-member Assembly.
BJP’s
Gujarat headquarters— Kamalam —was quiet on Monday Dec 18,2017, with little fanfare
or fireworks despite the party winning the assembly elections for a
record fifth consecutive time.
The BJP, which had won all 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat in the 2014 general elections, missed its 150+ mark by a mile, finishing the day with only seven seats more than the minimum required to form a government—its worst performance in 22 years.
BJP won 99 seats, down from 115 in 2012, while Congress’s 77 was 16 more than last time in 2012
In the 99 seats which BJP has won the party got a total of 29.67 lakh votes over Congress. The major part, almost 72 percent (21.26 lakh votes) of this lead is concentrated in 48 urban areas won by BJP. In 51 rural seats which BJP has won, the party’s lead stands at just about 28 percent (8.41 lakh votes).
BJP’s victory margins across 99 assembly seats shows that the party has won with huge margins in urban areas as compared to rural areas. The BJP’s margin on an average in the urban areas stood at 44,295 votes (up from 37805 in 2012) while in rural areas, its average winning margin was just 16,483 votes (marginally down from 16,688 in 2012.) On an average, BJP’s victory margin stood at 29,968 votes across 99 Assembly segments it won in 2017 elections. In 2012, the average BJP victory margin stood at 26,236 votes across 115 seats won by it.
The Congress, on the other hand, lead across 77 Assembly seats and this translates into a lead of 10.28 lakh votes over BJP. However, about 88 percent (9,07,910 votes) of the party’s leads come from rural areas while only about 12 percent (1,20,043) of the winning margin came from winning urban seats.
Final seat tally as put out by the Election Commission after Gujarat election results:
| Party | Seat Tally |
| BJP | 99 |
| Congress | 77 |
| Others | 06 |
| Total | 182 |
The biggest shock for BJP came in the Saurashtra region, where it lost 13 seats to the Congress due to the Patidar agitation for reservation led by 24-year-old Hardik Patel.
1 Biggest victory margin:
The Ghatlodia seat in Gujarat saw a victory margin 1,17,750 votes. BJP leader Patel Bhupendrabhai Rajnikant won 1,75,652 votes defeating his nearest rival from Congress Patel Shashikant who got 57,902 votes.
2 Smallest victory margin:
On the Kaprada seat in Gujarat, Congress candidate Jitubhai Harjibhai Chaudhari won with a very slim margin of 170 votes. He defeated the BJP’s Madhubhai Bapubhai Raut. Chaudhari bagged 93,000 votes while Raut won 92,830 votes.
3 NOTA emerges third largest vote getter
Over 5.5 lakh voters opted for NOTA (none of the above) button in the polls. In Chief Minister Vijay Rupani's Rajkot West seat, the NOTA votes were more than 3,300, while the same in Vadgam (where Congress-supported independent Jignesh Mevani won) were over 4,200. In Godhra also, NOTA counted over 3,000. In percentage terms, 1.8 percent voters in Gujarat pressed the NOTA button.
4. Victory margin of less than 1,000
There was a close contest in at least seven seats in Gujarat with a victory margin of less than 1000 votes. In Botad the BJP won by 906 votes; In Mansa, Congress won by 524 votes; In Kaprada, Congress won by 170 votes; In Dangs, Congress won by 768 votes; In Deodar, Congress won by 972 votes; In Dholka, Congress won by 327 votes; In Godhra, BJP won by 258 votes.
5 Bharatiya Tribal Party opens account
The Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) was launched less than a month back. But it has managed to win two seats in the 2017 Gujarat polls. The party's founder Chhotubhai Vasava, a well-known tribal leader, won with a margin of 48,948 votes defeating BJP's Ravjibhai Ishvarbhai Vasava.
6. BJP ministers who lost to Congress candidates
Five BJP ministers lost the Assembly polls to Congress candidates. The ministers who lost are Parmar from Gadhada (SC) seat and Sapariya in Jamjodhpur constituency. Shankar Chaudhary, Keshaji Chauhan, and Shabdsharan Tadvi also failed to retain their respective seats in Vav, Deodar, and Nandod.
7. BJP wins lesser votes than 2012 but vote share increased
The BJP won 99 seats, way less than its figure in 2012, but the party managed to raise its vote share to its second highest ever. Its vote share rose from 47.85% to 49.1%.
8. Congress vote share also increased
The Congress won 61 seats in 2012 and got a vote share of 39 per cent. It won 41.4 per cent of the votes in 2017 and got 77 seats.
9. Voters in 2017 were 84 lakh lesser than 2012
The number of people who voted dropped by almost 84 lakh as compared to those in the 2012 polls.
10. The importance of Ahmedabad
The party which wins in Ahmedabad, wins the overall state. This is a tradition that is being followed since the state was forced in 1962. From 1962 to 1985 elections, the seat was won by Congress and the party was in power too. From 1990, it is the BJP which is winning the seat and has been the ruling party in the state too
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flashes victory sign after BJP’s success in
Himachal and Gujarat assembly elections, on his arrival for the winter
session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Monday Dec 18,2017
BJP President Amit Shah flashes victory sign as he is welcomed on his
arrival at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Monday, after the
party's victory in the Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal
Pradesh.
With Victory in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh BJP now has 19 of the 29 States under its Rule
Congress in power in 4 States - Punjab, Karnataka, Mizoram, and Meghalaya
Since the BJP won the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and formed the government at the Center, it's been hard at work trying to replicate that success in state assembly elections
23 states have gone to polls since then, and BJP has a government in 15 of them, on its own or with an alliance partner.
Here's a look at how the saffron party has been steadily increasing its footprint across states in the country.
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