Constituency
68. Rajkot East
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2017
GJ-RAJKOT-EAST
BJP 53.2%won by 13.0%INC 40.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 13.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 39.0% to 53.2% of the vote here (+14.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% of the vote between them, up from 81.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,59,971
Turnout
67.3%
Valid votes
1,74,869
Margin
22,782
13.03%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1ARVIND RAIYANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP93,08753.2%
- 2MITUL DONGAIndian National Congress · INC70,30540.2%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,5872.1%
- 4GOHEL MADHUBHAI ARJANBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2361.3%
- 5AJIT GHUSABHAI LOKHILAam Aadmi Party · AAP1,9271.1%
- 6RANPARIYA JERAMBHAI HARJIBHAIIndependent · IND8270.5%
- 7VAGHELA RAMDEVSINH BHURUBHAIndependent · IND6180.4%
- 8KARNABHAI MALDHARIBhartiya Tribal Party · BTP5740.3%
- 9RAUMA MOHSINBHAI AADAMBHAIIndependent · IND5290.3%
- 10DHOLAKIYA JITESHBHAI NANJIBHAIVoice of the People Party · VPP4310.2%
- 11MUKESHBHAI KESHVJEEBHAI RAMANEEIndependent · IND3040.2%
- 12PARMAR REKHABEN BHARATBHAIIndependent · IND2310.1%
- 13BHAVESHBHAI RAMNIKBHAI BHALARAIndependent · IND2130.1%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +16.0%
- BJP share
- 39.0% → 53.2%
- INC share
- 42.0% → 40.2%
- Turnout
- 69.0% → 67.3%