BJP candidate Yogeshbhai Patel on Thursday won from the Anand assembly constituency, by defeating his Congress candidate Kantisodha Parmar.

According to the Election Commission of India website, Yogeshbhai Patel defeated Kantisodha Parmar by a margin of 41,623 votes. There were 15 candidates in the fray for this seat.

BJP's Patel received 1,11,859 votes, while Congress candidate Kantisodha Parmar got 70,236 votes. Coming third is AAP's Sedaliya Girishkumar Himmatlal with 5,071 votes.

Anand is an assembly constituency in the Anand district in the central region of Gujarat. The Anand legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 5. The assembly seat is reserved for the general category and falls in the Anand Lok Sabha constituency.

In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Anand was won by Kantibhai Sodhaparmar (Bhagat) of Congress, who defeated BJP’s Yogesh Patel (Bapaji).

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Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by Dilipbhai Manibhai Patel of the BJP.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Kantibhai Sodhaparmar (Bhagat) garnered 98,168 votes, securing 49.88 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 5,286 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 2.71 percent.

The total number of voters in the Anand constituency stands at 3,14,775. The constituency has a literacy level of 84.37 percent.

(Edited by : Sudarsanan Mani)

First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:41 PM IST