81 names withdrawn on last day in Gujarat, 371 in final fray, maximum 31 in Surendranagar, minimum 6 in Panchmahal

Gandhinagar: A total 81 candidates today withdrew their names on the the last day for the same for the upcoming LS polls on all 26 seats of Gujarat while 21 pull out from the fray for the 4 assembly polls to be held simultaneously on April 23.

With this for LS polls total 371 and for assembly by-polls total 45 candidates have remained in the final fray.

Among LS seats maximum 31 were on Surendranagar seat while minimum 6 were on Panchmahal seat. For assembly by polls necessitated due to resignation of 4 Congress MLAs, Manavadar seat has minimum 8 candidates and maximum 15 on Jamnagar-rural seat. On the remaining two seats of Dhranadhra and Unjha and equal number of 11 candidates have remained in the fray finally.

For both LS polls as well as assembly by polls, nominations were held from March 28 to April 4. A total of 572 nomination were done for LS polls while 82 were for assembly by polls. On the day of Scrutiny on April five 120 of LS polls nominations were rejected while 15 papers for by polls were also scrapped.

Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat S Murali Krishna today said that final tally of candidates for the LS polls in Gujarat was as follows – Kutch (SC)-10, Banaskantha- 14, Gandhinagar- 17, Patan-12, Mahesana – 12, Sabarkantha- 20, Ahmedabad-East – 26,Ahmedabad-West (SC)- 13 , Rajkot-10, Porbandar-17, Jamnagar-28,Junagadh-12, Amreli-12, Bhavnagar-10,Anand- 10, Kheda -7, Dahod (ST) -7, Vadodara-13, Chhota Udepur(ST)-8, Bharuch-17, Bardoli(ST)-12, Surat 13, Navasari-25, Valsad(ST)-9.

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