Congress fields Gulabsinh Rajput as candidate for Vav by-election

Gandhinagar: The main opposition Congress party has fielded Gulab Singh Rajput as its candidate for Vav assembly seat by-election. Today is the last date of filing nominations.

The Congress party statement said – ‘ The Congress President, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, has approved the candidature of Shri Gulab Singh Rajput as Congress candidate for the ensuing by-election to the Legislative Assembly of Gujarat from 7 – Vav Constituency.

Gulab Singh Rajput is former MLA of Congress party from Tharad assembly seat.

Vav assembly seat is vacant and witnessing by-poll due to resignation of Geniben Thakor from the State assembly to retain her Banaskantha Lok Sabha seat. DeshGujarat

Vav assembly seat result in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls

PC No. & Name : 2 – Banaskantha
AC Number and AC Name : 7 – Vav
Candidate Party Votes
1. GENIBEN NAGAJI THAKOR INC 101311
2. MANSUNGBHAI MASHRUBHAI PARMAR BSP 1865
3. DR. REKHABEN HITESHBHAI CHAUDHARI BJP 102972
4. JASUBHAI GAMAR BAP 752
5. PATEL PIYUSHBHAI KARSHANBHAI BHYUJEP 552
6. PRAVINBHAI ISHVARBHAI CHAUHAN SAP 253
7. IBRAHIMBHAI PARASANI IND 263
8. CHETANKUMAR KESHAVLAL OZA IND 215
9. PARMAR CHHAGANCHANDRARAJ IND 223
10. BAJAG LASHABHAI LAVAJIBHAI IND 502
11. RATHOD MAVJI BHEMAJI IND 1398
12. SHRIMALI ASHOKBHAI BALCHANDBHA IND 865
Total of Valid Votes 211171
Votes for NOTA 3540

Vav assembly seat 2022 results

Gujarat-Vav -7
Result Status
O.S.N. Candidate Party EVM Votes Postal Votes Total Votes % of Votes
1 THAKOR GENIBEN NAGAJI Indian National Congress 101782 731 102513 45.26
2 THAKOR SWARUPJI SARDARJI Bharatiya Janata Party 86224 688 86912 38.37
3 PARMAR NAYANABEN RANABHAI Bahujan Samaj Party 1844 5 1849 0.82
4 BHEMAJIBHAI PATEL Aam Aadmi Party 1503 93 1596 0.7
5 AMIRAMBHAI SHANKARLAL ASHAL Independent 27088 258 27346 12.07
6 SHANTIBHAI HAJABHAI RATHOD Independent 2267 22 2289 1.01
7 NOTA None of the Above 3994 3 3997 1.76
Total 224702 1800 226502

Tharad assembly seat 2022 results where Gulabsinh was defeated by BJP

Gujarat-Tharad -8
Result Status
O.S.N. Candidate Party EVM Votes Postal Votes Total Votes % of Votes
1 GULABSINH PIRABHAI RAJPUT Indian National Congress 90977 408 91385 42.07
2 SHANKARBHAI LAGDHIRBHAI CHAUDHARY Bharatiya Janata Party 116842 1049 117891 54.27
3 HADIYAL MAHESHKUMAR RANCHHODBHAI Bahujan Samaj Party 717 3 720 0.33
4 PRAKASHBHAI MANJIBHAI DARAJI Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Party 136 1 137 0.06
5 BHARATKUMAR KHEMABHAI CHARAMTA Praja Vijay Paksh 74 0 74 0.03
6 RAMESHJI VANAJI MAKVANA Garvi Gujarat Party 68 0 68 0.03
7 VIRCHANDBHAI CHELABHAI CHAVDA Aam Aadmi Party 256 22 278 0.13
8 KAMLESHBHAI KALUBHAI DESAI Independent 91 0 91 0.04
9 THAKOR LAXMIBEN SHURESHBHAI Independent 164 2 166 0.08
10 PARMAR SEDHABHAI VAGHABHAI Independent 206 1 207 0.1
11 BOCHIYA MOHANBHAI ISHVARBHAI Independent 211 0 211 0.1
12 BRAHMKSHATRIYA BHAGAVTIBEN KHETSINHBHAI Independent 190 0 190 0.09
13 VARAN MANUBHAI VALABHAI Independent 476 0 476 0.22
14 SARTANBHAI VAKHATABHAI HADIYAL Independent 1878 0 1878 0.86
15 NOTA None of the Above 3460 6 3466 1.6
Total 215746 1492 217238