Chiragkumar Arvindbhai Patel of the Indian National Congress has won in the Khambhat constituency by 3711 votes. According to data by the Election Commission of India, Patel got 69069.

Maheshkumar Kanaiyalal Raval (Mayur Raval) of BJP came second with 65358 votes.

Khambhat is an assembly constituency in the Anand district in the Central Gujarat region of Gujarat. The Khambhat legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 5, 2022. The assembly seat is reserved for the general category.

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In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Khambhat was won by Maheshkumar Kanaiyalal Raval (Mayur Raval) of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Maheshkumar Kanaiyalal Raval (Mayur Raval) defeated Indian National Congress (INC) party's Patel Khushmanbhai Shantilal.

Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by the BJP Party's Patel Sanjaykumar Ramanbhai,

In the 2017 assembly polls, Maheshkumar Kanaiyalal Raval (Mayur Raval) garnered 71459 votes, securing 47.43 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 2318 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 1.56 percent.

The dominant community in the Khambhat constituency is the Other Backward Class (OBC). The Khambhat constituency had a Scheduled Caste population of 7.53 percent.

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First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:30 PM IST