Lathi Assembly Election Result 2022 Live Updates: It’s time for the results of the Gujarat Assembly Election 2022. The BJP, Congress and AAP are battling it out in 182 seats of the Gujarat Assembly.
Let’s now move on to the Lathi Assembly constituency in Gujarat, which falls under the Amreli Lok Sabha seat.
BJP won this seat in Gujarat's Lathi constituency.
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Lathi Results
In Lathi constituency, it was a fight between Janakbhai Punabhai Talaviya of BJP, Virjibhai Thummar of Congress, and Jaysukhbhai Detroja of Aam Aadmi Party.
In 2017, the seat had been won by Virajibhai Thummar. The winning candidate was Congress. The BJP candidate Gopalbhai had come in second place.
In the 2012 Assembly election, the seat had been won by Bavkubhai Nathabhai Undhad of the Congress. The BJP candidate Khokhariya Valajibhai Nanajibhai had come in second place.
The 2022 Assembly Election
The 2022 Gujarat election has been a hard-fought one. Voting for the 182 constituencies took place in two phases, on 1 and 5 December.
In all, there were 1,621 candidates in the fray. There were 788 candidates contesting in the 89 seats that went to polls in Phase 1, including 70 women candidates and 339 independents.
In the 93 seats in Phase 2, there were 833 candidates in all, including 69 female candidates and 285 independents.
There are a total of around 4.91 crore registered voters in Gujarat, of which around 51.6% are male voters and around 48.4% are female voters. There are also around 1,400 registered transgender voters.
In the 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, BJP had won 99 seats and Congress had secured 77 seats. BJP leader Vijay Rupani had taken charge once again as the chief minister of the state. It was the sixth consecutive time that BJP had won the Gujarat Assembly election.
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