Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat
Lok Sabha election dates can be announced any time. According to information received from sources, the Election Commission can announce the dates of Lok Sabha elections any day after March 13. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections may be held in 7-8 phases. All political parties are vigorously engaged in the election campaign. Gujarat seats will play an important role in this elections also. In such a situation, here we are giving information about the high profile Gandhinagar seat of Gujarat. It is almost certain that the country’s Home Minister Amit Shah will once again contest elections from Gandhinagar. This seat is the first choice of BJP stalwarts. The party has been continuously winning elections from here for the last 35 years.
Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat has 7 assembly seats. These include North Gandhinagar, Kalol, Sanand, Ghatlodiya, Vejalpur, Naranpura and Sabarmati. BJP has control over all these seats.
How many voters are there?
Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat, known as the birthplace of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, was formed in 1969. This is the impenetrable fort of BJP. There are 19 lakh 45 thousand 149 voters in Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat, out of which 9 lakh 41 thousand 434 are male voters while the number of female voters is 10 lakh 4 thousand 291.
What were the results of the 2019 elections?
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Amit Shah won the Gandhinagar seat by a record number of votes. Amit Shah had got 8 lakh 94 thousand 624 votes whereas CJ Chavda, who contested the elections on Congress ticket, could get only 3 lakh 37 thousand 610 votes. In this way, BJP had won this seat by more than 5 lakh 57 thousand votes.
If we look at the history of election results of Gandhinagar seat, till date no one has won with so many votes. But in the 2019 general elections, Amit Shah became the first leader from Gandhinagar seat who crossed the 8 lakh mark in votes. During this period, BJP’s total vote percentage in the last election was 69.67 percent.
What were the results of the 2014 elections?
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Gujarat’s VIP seat Gandhinagar was won by senior BJP leader and party’s Marg Darshak Mandal member Lal Krishna Advani. In the 2014 elections, he defeated Congress’s Kirti Ishwarbhai Patel on this seat by 483,121 votes, Advani got 773,539 votes, while the Congress candidate had to be satisfied with only 290,418 votes. Advani won every election from here from 1998 to 2014. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has also won the Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar seat in 1991.
What is caste equation?
According to the caste equation, the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat is dominated by the Vaghela and Patel communities. Both are considered core voters of BJP.
Interesting facts related to Gandhinagar seat
If we take a look at the history of Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat, many interesting facts can be seen. At one time, BJP’s top leader Lal Krishna Advani and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee both entered the Lok Sabha after winning elections from here. In the 1996 general elections, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had won with a huge vote but he vacated the seat within a year. Keeping this in view, Congress conducted a big electoral experiment. In the by-election, Congress fielded Bollywood actor and superstar Kaka i.e. Rajesh Khanna from this seat. However, this move of Congress did not work and Kaka had to face defeat in the elections.
When were the elections held in the year 2019?
The Election Commission had announced the dates for the Lok Sabha elections on March 10, 2019. The Election Commission had announced that the 2019 elections would be conducted in 7 phases. These elections ran from 11 April to 19 May. The counting of votes took place on 23 May.
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