Ghatlodia is an assembly constituency in the Ahmedabad district in the central region of Gujarat. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Thursday won the Ghatlodia seat by 1,92,263 votes. He will be taking oath as the state's CM on December 12.

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

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In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Ghatlodia was won by Bhupendrabhai Patel of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He defeated Congress's Shashikant Patel.

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

In the 2017 assembly polls, Bhupendrabhai Patel garnered 1,75,652 votes, securing 72.15 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 1,17,750 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 48.7 percent.

The total number of voters in the Ghatlodia constituency stands at 4,28,542, with 2,20,501 male and 2,08,028 female voters.

The Ghatlodia constituency has a literacy level of 85.31 percent.

It is a Patidar-dominated seat.

First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:11 PM IST