In 2017 Gujarat polls, AAP’s all barring one candidates had lost deposits

Gandhinagar: 28 out of total 29 candidates of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had got votes even less than NOTA in 2017 state assembly elections in Gujarat.

AAP has declared candidates for 139 seats out of 182 seats for the upcoming state assembly elections this year. In the 2017 state assembly election, Delhi CM and AAP president Arvind Kejriwal visited Gujarat twice for election campaigns. The 29 candidates of AAP didn’t get enough votes to retain their deposits. The 29 candidates got a total of 29,509 votes. The votes for NOTA were 75,843 in these seats. Thus, NOTA got 257 % more votes than AAP. Only one out of 29 candidates of AAP got more votes than NOTA.

Twenty out of 29 candidates didn’t get votes crossing 3-digit numbers. However, AAP has repeated the candidates for Chhota Udepur, Kamrej and Gondal who lost in the 2017 election. AAP candidate from Chhota Udepur named Arjun Rathwa had got the highest votes among 29 candidates, which was 4551. Kshetrapal Sharma, AAP candidate from the Ankleshwar seat, got the lowest votes among the 29 candidates which was 243 votes. Twenty candidates of AAP got less than 1 thousand votes in the 2017 state assembly election. Only four candidates got more than 2 thousand votes.

There were 65 parties who contested in the 2017 state assembly election. There were 2010 candidates on 182 seats. Total 3 crore voters had given votes, with a total voting of 69.01 percent in the 2017 state assembly election. BJP had received 1.47 crore votes (49.05 percent) and congress had received 1.24 crore votes (41.55 percent) votes. AAP had received 29,509 votes ( 0.10 percent) in the 2017 state assembly election. DeshGujarat