Independent candidate Dharmendrasinh Ranubha Vaghela (Bapu) has won in Vaghodia constituency by over 14,000 votes. He got 77905 votes defeating Ashvinbhai Natvarbhai Patel (kaka) who got 63899 votes, according to latest data by the Election Commission of India.

Vaghodia is an assembly constituency in the Vadodara district in the Central region of Gujarat. The Vaghodia legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 5, 2022.

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

In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Vaghodia was won by Shrivastav Madhubhai Babubhai of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP). He defeated independent candidate Vaghela Dharmendrasingh Ranubha.

Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by BJP’s Shrivastav Madhubhai Babubhai.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Babubhai garnered 62,913 votes, securing 36.76 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 10,271 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 6.01 percent.

The total number of voters in the Vaghodia constituency stands at 2,46,575 with 1,26,906 male and 1,19,666 female voters.

The Vaghodia constituency has a literacy level of 78.92 percent.

First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:35 PM IST