Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Ishvarbhai Anilbhai Ramanbhai Parmar on Thursday won from the Bardoli assembly constituency in Gujarat by defeating Indian National Congress candidate Pannaben Anilbhai Patel.

According to the Election Commission of India website, Ishvarbhai Anilbhai Ramanbhai Parmar defeated Pannaben Anilbhai Patel by a margin of 89,948 votes. There were 6 candidates in the fray for this seat.

BJP's Parmar received 1,18,527 votes, while Congress candidate Patel got 28,579 votes. Coming third is AAP's Rajendraprasad Solanki with 24,710 votes.

Bardoli is an assembly constituency in the Surat district in the Southern region of Gujarat. The Bardoli legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 1, 2022. The assembly seat is reserved for the Scheduled Caste category and falls in the Bardoli Lok Sabha constituency.

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In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Bardoli was won by Ishwarbhai (Anil) Ramanbhai Parmar of the BJP. Ishwarbhai (Anil) Ramanbhai Parmar defeated the Congress party’s Tarunkumar Jagubhai Vaghela.

Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by BJP’s Parmar Ishwarbhai Alias Anilbhai Ramanbhai.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Ishwarbhai (Anil) Ramanbhai Parmar garnered 94,774 votes, securing 58.37 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 34,854 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 21.53 percent.

The total number of voters in the Bardoli constituency stands at 270043. The constituency has a literacy level of 85.53 percent.

(Edited by : Sudarsanan Mani)

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