Bharitya Janata Party's Vijaybhai Rameshbhai Patel grabbed the Dangs constituency seat from Congress by 19,674 votes, according to the latest data from the Election Commission of India.

This year, Congress had fielded Mukeshbhai Chandarbhai Patel as the candidate from the southern Gujarat constituency, which went to the polls on December 1, 2022.

The assembly seat is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes category and falls in the Valsad Lok Sabha constituency.

In the December 2017 elections, Dangs was won by Mangalbhai Gavit of the Indian National Congress (INC). He defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Vijayabhai Patel.

Before that, in the 2012 elections, the seat was held by Gavit.

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In the 2017 assembly polls, Gavit garnered 57,820 votes, securing 46.47 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 768 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 0.63 percent.

The total number of voters in the Dangs constituency stands at 1,93,328 with 96,916 male and 96,410 female voters.

The Dangs constituency has a literacy level of 75.16 percent.

It is a tribal-dominated seat.

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First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:27 PM IST