Constituency
179. Valsad
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2022
GJ-VALSAD
BJP 71.8%won by 58.9%AAP 12.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.6% to 58.9%.
- New challengerAam Aadmi Party (AAP) finished second with 12.8% — it polled just 0.2% in 2017.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 95.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 66.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,64,444
Turnout
66.6%
Valid votes
1,76,048
Margin
1,03,776
58.95%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1BHARATBHAI KIKUBHAI PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,26,32371.8%
- 2RAJESHBHAI MANGUBHAI PATELAam Aadmi Party · AAP22,54712.8%
- 3KAMALBHAI SHANTILAL PATELIndian National Congress · INC21,52212.2%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA2,8151.6%
- 5HEMANTKUMAR GOPALBHAI TANDELRSPS · RSPS8800.5%
- 6MAHESH VINAYAKRAY ACHARYAPVP · PVP8190.5%
- 7KAMLESHBHAI BHARATBHAI YOGISamajwadi Party · SP8070.5%
- 8RAJESHBHAI THAKORBHAI GOHILBharatiya Rashtravadi Paksha · BRP3350.2%
Since 2017
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AAP swing
- −1.3%
- BJP share
- 60.5% → 71.8%
- AAP share
- 0.2% → 12.8%
- Turnout
- 69.0% → 66.6%