Gujarat’s voters handed the BJP its sixth straight victory in the
Assembly elections, but tempered the win by reducing the party’s
majority to 99 – its lowest tally since 1995.
Its dominance in the urban areas appeared to have saved the day for the BJP in what turned out to be a tight contest with Prime Minster Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi leading their parties from the front.
The BJP won 99 seats, the Congress took 77, three went to Independents, including the Congress-backed Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani, two seats were won by the Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP) of Chhotubhai Vasava and one was bagged by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
With 49.1% of the vote, the BJP lost 10 percentage points from its 2014 Lok Sabha tally, but gained 1.2 percentage points over its 2012 Assembly performance.
BJP swept Surat city winning all 12 seats, won 12 out of 16 seats in Ahmedabad city, all five in Vadodara city, all three in Rajkot city and both seats in Bhavnagar and Jamnagar cities, together accounting for 36 of the total 40 seats spread in six major cities.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel won their seats while five serving Ministers and Assembly Speaker Ramanlal Vora were defeated. Top Congress leaders Arjun Modwadia, Shaktisinh Gohil, Tushar Chaudhury and Siddharth Patel also lost.
Its dominance in the urban areas appeared to have saved the day for the BJP in what turned out to be a tight contest with Prime Minster Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi leading their parties from the front.
The BJP won 99 seats, the Congress took 77, three went to Independents, including the Congress-backed Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani, two seats were won by the Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP) of Chhotubhai Vasava and one was bagged by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
With 49.1% of the vote, the BJP lost 10 percentage points from its 2014 Lok Sabha tally, but gained 1.2 percentage points over its 2012 Assembly performance.
BJP swept Surat city winning all 12 seats, won 12 out of 16 seats in Ahmedabad city, all five in Vadodara city, all three in Rajkot city and both seats in Bhavnagar and Jamnagar cities, together accounting for 36 of the total 40 seats spread in six major cities.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel won their seats while five serving Ministers and Assembly Speaker Ramanlal Vora were defeated. Top Congress leaders Arjun Modwadia, Shaktisinh Gohil, Tushar Chaudhury and Siddharth Patel also lost.
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