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Monday, December 18, 2017

2017 Gujarat Election Results: Urban-Rural divide in votes; What BJP’s 7% vote lead over Congress means

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:
PartySeat Tally
BJP99
Congress77
Others06
Total182

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