Surat East 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 Surat East Assembly constituency in Gujarat, which falls under the Surat Lok Sabha seat.
BJP's Arvindbhai Rana has won in Gujarat's Surat East seat.
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Surat East Results
In Surat East constituency, it is a fight between Arvindbhai Rana of BJP and Aslam Cyclewala of Congress.
In 2017, the seat had been won by Arvind Shantilal Rana. The winning candidate was BJP. The Congress candidate Bharucha Nitinkumar Thakordas had come in second place.
In the 2012 Assembly election, the seat had been won by Gilitwala Ranjitbhai Mangubhai of the BJP. The Congress candidate Pirzada Kadir Kayamudin 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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