Bharatiya Janata Party's Kaushikbhai Sukhlal Jain defeated Congress leader Gyasuddin Habibuddeen Shaikh by 5,243 votes in the Dariapur constituency in Gujarat, according to latest data from the Election Commission of India.

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The assembly seat is reserved for the scheduled caste category and falls in the Ahmedabad West Lok Sabha constituency.

In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Dariapur was won by Gyasuddin Habibuddeen Shaikh of the Congress party. He defeated BJP's Bharat Barot.

Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by Congress party's Gyasuddin Habibuddin Shekh.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Shaikh garnered 63,712 votes, securing 49.68 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 6,187 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 4.86 percent.

The total number of voters in the Dariapur constituency stands at 2,09,909 with 1,07,597 male and 1,02,300 female voters.

The Dariapur constituency has a literacy level of 85.31 percent.

First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:36 PM IST