Gujarat local body polls: Official figures of party wise voting percentage

Japan K Pathak, Gandhinagar

There were several news reports on the State Election Commission of Gujarat not declaring the percentage wise results of recently concluded local body polls. The Election Commission actually, like always was just taking time to compile the data, put it in tables in order to declare them online. So wait is over and figures of party wise percentage of votes gained in the Gujarat local body polls are out. Here are the figures at glance.

Party/Votes gained/Percentage of total votes gained

230 Taluka Panchayats

6814573 BJP – 43.32%

Congress 7235708 – 46.00%

BSP 99987 – 0.63%

NCP 28659 – 0.18%

CPMM 1305 – 0.008%

SP 2549 – 0.016%

JDU 88169 – 0.56%

Others 222230 – 1.41%

Ind 781486 – 4.96%

NOTA 453149 – 2.88%

Total votes 15727815

 

31 District Panchayats

BJP 6740397 43.97%

Congress 7334455 – 47.85%

BSP 61893 0.40%

NCP 13630 0.08%

CPMM 4496 – 0.02%

SP 1948 – 0.01%

JDU 119218 – 0.7%

Others 149652 – 0.97%

Ind 447136 – 2.91%

NOTA 453328 – 2.95%

Total 15326053

 

56 Nagarpalika(Municipalities)

BJP 3703127 – 44.69%

Congress 3280150 – 39.59%

BSP 60033 – 0.72%

NCP 54091 0.65%

CPM 6536 – 0.07%

CPMM 6010 – 0.07%

SP 4434 – 0.05%

JDU 28437 – 0.34%

Others 119448 – 1.44%

Ind 991932 – 11.97%s

NOTA 30623 – 0.36%

Total 8284821

 

Nagarpalika(Municipality) bypolls

BJP 17629 – 33.81%

Congress 17449 – 33.47%

BSP 1888 – 3.62%

NCP 378 – 0.72%

JDU 125 – 0.23%

Ind 13605 – 26.09%

NOTA 1054 – 2.021%

Total 52128

 

6 Municipal Corporations

BJP 7604169 – 50.13%

Congress 6237026 – 41.12%

BSP 280667 – 1.85%

NCP 177405 – 1.16%

CPMM 40691 – 0.26%

SP 73776 – 048%

JDU 1421 – 0.009

Others 257673 – 1.69%

Ind 411583 – 2.71%

NOTA 82382 – 0.54%

Total 15166793

City wise figures

Ahmedabad

BJP 3147131 – 50.47%

Congress 2632840 – 42.22%

BSP 92171

NCP 66972

CPMM 16478

SP 12454

Others 32900

Ind 38647

Total 6234639

Surat

BJP 1889891 – 51.76%

Congress 1424521 39.014%

BSP 71186

NCP 34554

CPMM 3028

Others 66273

Ind 145787

NOTA 16014

Total 3651254

Vadodara

BJP 1076297 – 51.25%

Congress 805456 – 38.35%

BSP 17720

NCP 46225

CPMM 1671

SP 46792

Others 84152

Ind 8966

NOTA 12554

Total 2099833

Jamnagar

BJP 352554 – 43.95%

Congress 303142 – 37.79%

BSP 40937

SP 14530

Others 48700

Ind 39431

NOTA 2874

Total 802168

Rajkot

BJP 749123 – 46.71%

Congress 739650 – 46.12%

BSP 47065

NCP 29654

CPMM 1588

Others 13357

Ind 14955

NOTA8265

Total 1603657

Bhavnagar

BJP 389173 – 50.20%

Congress 331417 – 42.75%

BSP 11588

CPMM 17926

JDU 1421

Others 12291

Ind 7398

NOTA 4028

Total 775242

If we look at the party wise voting percentages of previous local body polls, that took place in year 2010, BJP got 50.26% in district panchayats while Congress got 44%. In 2015, BJP has been down at 43.97% while Congress up at 47.85%.

In 2010 Taluka Panchayat elections, BJP had secured 48.51% votes while Congress 42.42%. Compared to this in 2015 BJP has received 43.32% votes, while 46% votes secured by Congress.

In Municipal Corporation elections for 6 civic bodies, BJP secured 53.40% votes in year 2010 while Congress received 33.11% votes. Here in 2015, BJP has got 50.13% while Congress has received 41.12% votes.

In Municipalities or Nagarpalika elections, BJP had got 46.57% votes in year 2010 local body polls while Congress had 32.73% votes. Against this, in 2015 BJP has got 44.69% votes while Congress has got 39.59% votes.

I have embedded detail figure sheet in PDF format here:

– DeshGujarat