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{{short description|Legislative Assembly constituency in Gujarat State, India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Unjha
| mla = [[Patel Kiritkumar Keshavlal (K. K. Patel)]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| latest_election_year = [[2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
| state = Gujarat
| district = [[Mahesana district|Mahesana]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Mahesana Lok Sabha constituency|Mahesana]]
| established = 1962
| reservation = None
| electors = {{formatnum:232996}}<ref name=election2022>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/14750-gujarat-general-legislative-election-2022/ |title=Gujarat General Legislative Election 2022 |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date= 18 April 2023}}</ref>{{update after|2028|2}}
| type= SLA
| constituency_no = 21
}}

'''Unjha''' is one of the 182 [[Gujarat Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly]] constituencies of [[Gujarat]] state in [[India]].<ref name=gjceo>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125011107/http://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/download/PCAC.pdf |url=http://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/download/PCAC.pdf |archive-date=25 January 2014 |title=Parliament / Assembly constituency wise PS & Electors Detail - Draft Roll - 2014 |access-date= 1 June 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Gujarat/gujarat.pdf |title=Gujarat: Order No. 33: Table-A: Assembly Constituency and Their Extent |date=12 December 2006 |website=Election Commission of India |publisher=Delimitation Commission of India |pages=2–31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015941/http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Gujarat/gujarat.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=12 February 2017 }}</ref> It is part of [[Mahesana district|Mahesana]] district, numbered as 21-Unjha and is one of the seven Vidhan Sabha segments which fall under [[Mahesana Lok Sabha constituency]].

==List of segments==
This assembly seat represents the following segments,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Gujarat/gujarat.pdf|title=Gujarat: Order No. 33: Table-A: Assembly Constituency and Their Extent|date=12 December 2006|website=Election Commission of India|publisher=Delimitation Commission of India|pages=2–31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015941/http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Gujarat/gujarat.pdf|archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>

# Unjha Taluka
# Vadnagar Taluka (Part) Villages – Jaska, Sundhiya, Hajipur, Shekhpur (Khe), Badarpur, Molipur, Sulipur, Kesimpa, Jagapura, Bajpura, Babipura, Khatoda, Kamalpur, Malekpur, Chandpur, Shekhpur (Vad), Kahipur, Chhabaliya, Transvad, Vadnagar (M).

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Member
!Picture
!colspan=2|Party
|-
|[[1962 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Ambalal Mohanlal Patel
|
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1967 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|P. S. Mohanlal
|
|{{Full party name with color|Swatantra Party}}
|-
|[[1972 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|Shankerlal Mohanlal Guru
|
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1975 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1975]]
|Kantilal Manilal Patel
|
|{{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}
|-
|[[1980 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
|Kanjibhai Lalludas Patel
|
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
|[[1985 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1985]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Chimanbhai Patel]]
|
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|-
|[[1990 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1990]]
|
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Dal}}
|-
|[[1995 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1995]]
| rowspan="5" | Narayanbhai Patel || rowspan="5" |
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=5}}
|-
|[[1998 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|1998]]

|-
|[[2002 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|2002]]

|-
|[[2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|2007]]

|-
|[[2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|2012]]

|-
|[[2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|2017]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Asha Patel]]<ref name="election2017" /> || rowspan="2" |
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|2019 Bypoll<ref name="BJP wins all 4 assembly bypolls in Gujarat, tally crosses 100">{{cite news|last1=The Economic Times|title=BJP wins all 4 assembly bypolls in Gujarat, tally crosses 100|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/assembly-elections/bjp-wins-all-4-assembly-bypolls-in-gujarat-tally-crosses-100/articleshow/69478626.cms?from=mdr|accessdate=2 October 2023|date=24 May 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002181015/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/assembly-elections/bjp-wins-all-4-assembly-bypolls-in-gujarat-tally-crosses-100/articleshow/69478626.cms?from=mdr|archivedate=2 October 2023}}</ref>
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party | rowspan=2}}
|-
| [[2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|2022]]
| Patel Kiritkumar Keshavlal (K K Patel) ||
|}

==Election results==
=== 2022 ===
<section begin="Assembly Election 2022"/>
{{Election box begin|
|title=[[2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|Gujarat Assembly election, 2022]]: Unjha Assembly constituency }}

{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Patel Kiritkumar Keshavlal (K. K. Patel)
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 88561
|percentage = 59.75
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Patel Arvind Amrutlal (Bhuro)
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 37093
|percentage = 25.03
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Urvishkumar Babubhai Patel
|party = Aam Aadmi Party
|votes = 18461
|percentage = 12.46
|change =
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|party = None of the above
|votes = 1775
|percentage = 1.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes =
|percentage = 34.72
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box registered electors
|reg. electors = {{formatnum:232870}}
|ref=<ref name="Gujarat Elections ECI">{{cite web |title=Gujarat Legislative Elections |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/category/72-gujarat/ |website=Election Commission of India |access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}<section end="Assembly Election 2022"/>

=== 2019 by-poll ===
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 2019: Unjha}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Asha Patel|Dr. Ashaben Dwarkadas Patel]]
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 77,459
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Patel Kantibhai Muljidas
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 54,387
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Natvarji Babuji Thakor
|party =Nationalist Congress Party
|votes =5,620
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 23,072
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 1,48,448
|percentage =67.55
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

=== 2017 ===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017]]: Unjha<ref name=election2017>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3841-gujarat-general-legislative-election-2017/ |title=Gujarat General Legislative Election 2017 |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date= 11 July 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Asha Patel|Dr. Ashaben Dwarkadas Patel]]
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 74,438
|percentage = 54.23%
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Narayanbhai Patel]]
|party = None of the above
|votes = 55,053
|percentage = 40.11%
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 19,385
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2012===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012]]}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/download/Detail_Report_AC2012.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2012 to the Legislative Assembly of Gujarat |access-date=9 June 2014 |archive-date=26 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126215052/http://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/download/Detail_Report_AC2012.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Narayanbhai Patel
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 75708
|percentage = 55.71
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Asha Patel|Dr. Ashaben Dwarkadas Patel]]
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 51507
|percentage = 37.90
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 24201
|percentage = 17.81
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 135887
|percentage = 70.17
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|loser = Indian National Congress
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

==See also==
* [[List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Mahesana district]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |title=Results of Gujarat Assembly Elections |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/category/72-gujarat/ |website=eci.gov.in |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=15 March 2022}}

{{Assembly constituencies of Gujarat|state=expanded}}
{{Gujarat elections|state=collapsed}}
{{Mehasana}}
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[[Category:Assembly constituencies of Gujarat]]
[[Category:Mehsana district]]
[[Category:Politics of Gujarat]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1962]]
[[Category:1962 establishments in Gujarat]]

Unjha Assembly constituency - Revision history

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