Constituency
70. Rajkot South
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2022
GJ-RAJKOT-SOUTH
BJP 66.4%won by 51.5%AAP 14.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 30.1% to 51.5%.
- New challengerAam Aadmi Party (AAP) finished second with 14.9% — it polled just 0.2% in 2017.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 96.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.4% to 59.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,58,813
Turnout
59.2%
Valid votes
1,53,275
Margin
78,864
51.45%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1RAMESHBHAI VIRJIBHAI TILALABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,01,73466.4%
- 2SHIVLAL BARASIAAam Aadmi Party · AAP22,87014.9%
- 3HITESH MAGANBHAI VORAIndian National Congress · INC22,50714.7%
- 4PAREKH PUNITABEN HASMUKHBHAIIndependent · IND2,8421.9%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA2,3531.5%
- 6RAKESH PATELIndependent · IND2950.2%
- 7PRAVINBHAI MEGHAJIBHAI DENGADAIndependent · IND2740.2%
- 8BHUMIKA PARESHBHAI PATELIndependent · IND2320.2%
- 9AMARDAS DESANIIndependent · IND1680.1%
Since 2017
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AAP swing
- −11.5%
- BJP share
- 63.2% → 66.4%
- AAP share
- 0.2% → 14.9%
- Turnout
- 64.6% → 59.2%