AAP cuts deep in Congress votes as it wins 5 seats in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 5 seats out 0f 182 seats in the Gujarat Assembly elections 2022. On these five seats, the vote share of both the Congress and the Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) as compared 2017 assembly election has slipped away to AAP.

Meanwhile, the vote percentage of the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has remained more or less intact on 5 all 5 seats and on 3 of these seats BJP increased its vote share.

The seats that AAP won are Dediapada, Botad, Jamjodhpur, Visavadar and Gariadhar.

In Dediapada (ST), AAP candidate Chaitar Vasava got 1,03,433 votes defeating three parties — BJP (63,151), Congress (12,587) and BTP (2,991). The seat was won by the BTP in 2017 with 83,026 votes. The BJP has gained 1,876 more votes as compared to its last performance here.

The Congress lost the Visavadar seat to the AAP, and it also lost the majority of the vote; from 81,882 votes in 2017, it received only 16,963 in 2022, a decrease of 64,919 votes. Here, the AAP candidate received 66,210 votes, while the BJP received 59,147 votes in 2022, up 366 votes from the 58,781 votes it received in 2017.

Gariadhar seat was lost by BJP, which won it with 50,635 votes in 2017. The AAP candidate got 60,944 votes. It got large share of votes that the Congress got last time. Congress has been reduced from 48,759 votes to 15,099 votes, a dip of 33,660. On the other hand, BJP’s Keshu Nakrani has secured 56,125 votes, adding 5,490 votes to his last performance.

In Botad, BJP saw a drop by 1,821 votes going from 79,623 votes in 2017 to 77,802 votes in 2022. But the major damage was done to congress, which lost 59,659 votes this time.

In Jamjodhpur even though AAP won BJP was reduced by only 700 votes in its defeat. The AAP drew the major share for its winning 71,397 votes from the Congress only, which was devastated with a loss of 50,698 votes from its 2017 performance.

Other than winning these 5 seats, AAP has suffered unprecedented defeat as 128 party candidates lost their deposit, and party’s CM candidate Isudan Ghadvi, and state party chief Gopal Italia also looing election.

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