Bhartiya Janata Party's Ritaben Ketankumar Patel won Gujarat's Gandhinagar North constituency seat by 26,111 votes against Congress' Virendrasinh Mafaji Vaghela (Ajitsinh-Vasan), according to the latest data from the Election Commission of India.

The constituency went to the polls on December 5, 2022.

The assembly seat is reserved for the general category and falls in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.

In the December 2017 elections, Gandhinagar North was won by CJ Chavda of the Indian National Congress. He defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Ashokkumar Ranchhodbhai Patel.

Before that, in the 2012 elections, the seat was held by BJP's Patel.

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In the 2017 assembly polls, Chavda garnered 78,206 votes, securing 48.16 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 4,774 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 2.99 percent.

The total number of voters in the Gandhinagar North constituency stands at 2,53,826 with 1,29,983 male and 1,23,832 female voters.

The Gandhinagar North constituency has a literacy level of 84.16 percent.

It is a Dalit-dominated seat.

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First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:26 PM IST