Kamrej is an assembly constituency in the Surat district in the South region of Gujarat. Praful Pansheriya of BJP won the Kamrej seat with a vote margin of 74,697, defeating Ram Dhaduk of AAP, according to the latest data from the Election Commission of India.
Prafulbhai Panseria Chhaganbhai was given the ticket by the BJP after being dropped in 2017 due to the Patidar agitation.
In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Kamrej was won by VD Zalavadiya of the BJP. VD Zalavadiya defeated the Congress party's Ashok (Jiravala).
Assembly election year | Winning Party | Margin of victory |
2012 | BJP | 27.9% |
2017 | BJP | 10.15% |
2022 | BJP | 74,697 (number of votes) |
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Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by BJP party's Pansheriya Prafulbhai Chhaganbhai. In the 2017 assembly polls, VD Zalavadiya garnered 1,47,371 votes, securing 53.05 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 28,191 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 10.15 percent.
The Kamrej legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 1. The assembly seat is reserved for the general category and falls in the Bardoli Lok Sabha constituency.
The total number of voters in the Kamrej constituency stands at 5,47,625. The Kamrej constituency has a literacy level of 85.53 percent.
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(Edited by : Sudarsanan Mani)
First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:37 PM IST