BJP's Vinodbhai Amarshibhai Moradiya defeated Aam Aadmi Party's Gujarat state in-charge Gopal Italia by 64,627 votes to retain his seat in Katargam on Thursday, according to latest data from the Election Commission of India. Katargam is an assembly constituency in the Surat district in the South region of Gujarat.

The Katargam legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 1, 2022.

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

In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Katargam was won by Vinodbhai Amarshibhai Moradiya of the Bharatiya Janata Patry. He defeated Congress's Jignesh Jivani.

Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by BJP's Nanubhai Bhagavanbhai Vanani.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Moradiya garnered 1,25,387 votes, securing 69.41 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 79,230 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 43.91 percent.

The total number of voters in the Katargam constituency stands at 3,22,239, with 1,76,870 male and 1,45,367 female voters.

The Katargam constituency has a literacy level of 85.53 percent.

It is a Patidar-dominated seat.

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First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:06 PM IST