Gujarat By-Polls - Sunday June 02,2013

In a big victory for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has won all the six seats (2 Lok Sabha seats and 4 Assembly seats) in the by-polls held on Sunday June 02,2013
Constituency                               Candidate
Porbandar                                 Vithhal Radadia(BJP)
Banaskantha                              Haribhai Chaudhary(BJP)
Limbadi                                    Kiritsinh Rana(BJP)
Morva Hadaf                             Nimisha Suthar(BJP)
Dhoraji                                      Pravin Mankadia(BJP)
Jetpur                                       Jayesh Radadia(BJP)



After two hours of counting of votes for two the Lok Sabha seats of Porbandar and Banaskantha, BJP candidates are far ahead of their nearest Congress rivals," Election authorities said.

For Porbandar and Banaskantha Lok Sabha seats, 30 and 37 % voting was registered respectively – both of which were previously held by the Congress.

The Banaskantha Lok Sabha Seat fell vacant after the death of Congress MP Mukesh Gadhvi. In the bypoll Congress fielded his wife Krishna Gadhvi.Haribhai Chaudhary of BJP is also leading with more then 55,000 votes against Krishna Gadhvi. Krishna's husband Mukesh Gadhvi's death had made the seat vacant.

In Porbandar, Vithhal Radadia won for the BJP after he defected from the Congress and contested as a BJP candidate (BJP's Vitthal Radadia, who was caught brandishing his gun at a toll booth last year when he was a Congress MP and later crossed over BJP)

 For the Assembly Seats of Limbadi, Morva Hadaf, Dhoraji and Jetpur 62 %, 64%, 33 per cent and 45 % voting was recorded.

The Limbadi Assembly Seat fell vacant after Congress MP Soma Patel, who won the seat, later resigned as MLA. The party has fielded his son Satish against whom BJP has given ticket to former state minister Kiritsinh Rana

At Morva Hadaf, the election was held to fill the vacancy caused by Congress candidate Savita Khant, who died on the day of counting of the assembly elections in December, 2012. For the by-poll, the party had given ticket to her son Bhupendrasinh Khant

In Dhoraji, the seat fell vacant after former Congress leader Vithhal Radadia  resigned as MLA and defected to BJP

Note
In the state legislative Assembly of 182 members, at present BJP has 115 MLAs, Congress 57, Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) 2, Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) 2 and Independent and JD(U) has one member each member.