Constituency
68. Rajkot East
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2022
GJ-RAJKOT-EAST
BJP 46.4%won by 15.4%INC 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.0% to 15.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 93.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.8% to 62.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,97,585
Turnout
62.5%
Valid votes
1,85,848
Margin
28,635
15.41%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1Uday KangadBharatiya Janata Party · BJP86,19446.4%
- 2Indranil RajguruIndian National Congress · INC57,55931.0%
- 3Rahul BhuvaAam Aadmi Party · AAP35,44619.1%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA2,7941.5%
- 5SAGTHIYA SURESHKUMAR GOVINDBHAICommunist Party of India · CPI1,5400.8%
- 6LUNAGARIYA BABULAL PARSHOTAMBHAIIndependent · IND1,0740.6%
- 7Ranchhodbhai Maganbhai UghrejaIndependent · IND5530.3%
- 8RAJESH SAMSUDDIN GILANIIndependent · IND4250.2%
- 9Parghi Surajbhai NanjibhaiIndependent · IND2630.1%
Since 2017
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +2.4%
- BJP share
- 53.2% → 46.4%
- INC share
- 40.2% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- 67.3% → 62.5%