BJP's Uday Kangad defeated Indian National Congress' Indranil Rajguru by 28,635 votes in the Rajkot East constituency in Gujarat, according to latest data from the Election Commission of India.

Rajkot East is an assembly constituency in the Rajkot district in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. The Rajkot East legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 1, 2022.

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

In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Rajkot East was won by Arvind Raiyani of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He defeated Congress's Mitul Donga.

Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by Congress's Rajguru Indranil Sanjaybhai.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Raiyani garnered 93,807 votes, securing 53.02 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by 22,782 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 13.03 percent.

The total number of voters in the Rajkot East constituency stands at 2,97,585, with 1,56,519 male and 1,41,064 female voters.

The Rajkot East constituency has a literacy level of 80.96 percent.

It is a Patidar-dominated constituency.

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First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:09 PM IST