Constituency
70. Rajkot South
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2017
GJ-RAJKOT-SOUTH
BJP 63.2%won by 30.1%INC 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.8% to 30.1%.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,42,482
Turnout
64.6%
Valid votes
1,56,612
Margin
47,121
30.09%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1GOVINDBHAI PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP98,95163.2%
- 2DR. DINESH CHOVATIYAIndian National Congress · INC51,83033.1%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,2511.4%
- 4ANJU PADALIYABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5281.0%
- 5DESAI VINODBHAI NANJIBHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP5170.3%
- 6VINODBHAI NANALAL MAKVANAIndependent · IND3890.2%
- 7GIRISHBHAI VALLABHABHAI MARAVIYA (PATEL)Aam Aadmi Party · AAP2840.2%
- 8JASPALSINH MAHAVIRSINH TOMARIndependent · IND2830.2%
- 9NISHANTBHAI PATELShiv Sena · SHS2300.1%
- 10KUBAVAT ATULBHAI KANUBHAIIndependent · IND1860.1%
- 11AZIZ IQBALBHAI VIRANIIndependent · IND1630.1%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +9.3%
- BJP share
- 56.5% → 63.2%
- INC share
- 35.7% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- 64.6% → 64.6%