BJP wins 25 seats in Gujarat with big margins, CM Bhupendra Patel leads the pack

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday not only clinched a historic victory in Gujarat, winning 156 seats in the 182-member state assembly, it also broke some more records in grabbing a good number seats with really big margins. In two seats, Ghatlodia and Choryasi, the winning margin was close to two lakh.

Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, who won for a second straight term from Ghatlodia, beat his nearest rival by more than 1.92 lakh votes.

In eight seats, the victory margin for BJP candidates ranged between 1 lakh and 1.5 lakh. These included Vatva, Olpad, Surat West, Manjalpur, Majura, Ellisbridge, Rajkot West and Valsad. In Valsad, BJP's Bharatbhai Patel won by 1,03,776 votes, while sitting MLA and home minister Harsh Sanghvi won from Majura by a margin of 1,16,675 votes.


There were at least 15 seats where the victory margin was more than 70,000, but fell short of the 1 lakh mark. These included Maninagar, Kamrej, Pardi, Naroda, Naranpura, Bhavnagar Rural, Raopura, Gandevi, Bardoli, Akota, Daskroi, Navsari, Sabarmati, Sayajigunj and Vadodara city.