Desai Pankajbhai Vinubhai (Gotiyo) from the Bharatiya Janata Party retained the seat by defeating Indian National Congress' Dhruval Patel by 53,871 votes, according to the data from the Election Commission of India. Earlier in the day, trends showed that Patel was leading while Gotiyo was trailing.

Nadiad is an assembly constituency in the Kheda district in the Central region of Gujarat. The Nadiad legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 5, 2022. The assembly seat is reserved for the general caste category and falls in the Kheda Lok Sabha constituency.

In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Nadiad was won by Desai Pankajbhai Vinubhai(Gotiyo) of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Vinubhai defeated Congress candidate Jitendra Suryakantbhai Patel (Azad).

Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections also, the seat was held by BJP's Desai Pankajbhai Vinubhai(Gotiyo).

In the 2017 assembly polls, Paresh Dhanani garnered 90,221 votes, securing 5.3 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 20,838 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 12.45 percent.

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The total number of voters in the Nadiad constituency stands at 2,74,064 with 1,38,816 male and 1,35,199 female voters.

The Nadiad constituency has a literacy level of 82.65 percent.

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First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:33 PM IST