BJP candidate Dr Mahendrabhai Padalia on Thursday won from the Dhoraji assembly seat by defeating Congress candidate Lalit Vasoya.

According to the Election Commission of India website, Dr Mahendrabhai Padalia defeated Lalit Vasoya by a margin of 12,248 votes. There were 7 candidates in the fray for this seat.

BJP's Dr Mahendrabhai Padalia received 66,430 votes, while Congress candidate Lalit Vasoya got 54,182 votes. Coming third is AAP's Vipul Sakhiya with 29,794 votes.

Dhoraji is an assembly constituency in the Rajkot district in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. The Dhoraji legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 1, 2022. The assembly seat is reserved for the general category and falls in the Porbandar Lok Sabha constituency.

In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Dhoraji was won by Lalit Vasoya of Congress. Lalit Vasoya defeated Haribhai Patel of the BJP.

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Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by Radadiya Vitthalbhai Hansrajbhai of Congress.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Lalit Vasoya garnered 85,070 votes, securing 53.19 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 25,085 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 15.85 percent.

The total number of voters in the Dhoraji constituency stands at 2,68,514. The Dhoraji constituency has a literacy level of 80.96 percent.

(Edited by : Sudarsanan Mani)

First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:43 PM IST