Rajkot East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Rajkot East is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.[2][3] It is part of Rajkot district.
| Rajkot East | |
|---|---|
| Constituency for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly | |
| District | Rajkot |
| State | Gujarat |
| Electorate | 260,007[1][needs update] |
| Lok Sabha Constituency | Rajkot |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2017 |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| MLA | Arvind Raiyani |
| Reservation | None |
List of segmentsEdit
This assembly seat represents the following wards of Rajkot Municipal Corporation:
Rajkot Taluka (Part) – Rajkot Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No. – 5, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.[4]
Members of Legislative AssemblyEdit
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Indranil Rajguru | Indian National Congress | |
| 2017 | Arvind Raiyani[1] | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
Election resultsEdit
2017Edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Arvind Raiyani | 93,087 | 53.23 | ||
| INC | Mitul Donga | 70,305 | 40.20 | ||
| BSP | Madhubhai Gohel | 2,236 | 1.28 | ||
| AAP | Ajit Lokhil | 1,927 | 1.10 | ||
| [[Bharatiya Tribal Party|Template:Bharatiya Tribal Party/meta/shortname]] | Karnabhai Maldhari | 574 | 0.33 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,587 | 2.05 | ||
| Majority | 13.03 | ||||
| Turnout | 1,74,869 | 67.26 | |||
| BJP gain from INC | Swing | ||||
2012Edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Indranil Rajguru | 60,877 | 41.97 | ||
| BJP | Kashyap Shukla | 56,605 | 39.02 | ||
| Majority | 4,272 | 2.94 | |||
| Turnout | 145,066 | 69.01 | |||
| INC win (new seat) | |||||
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gujarat General Legislative Election 2017". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ↑ "Parliament / Assembly Constituency wise PS & Electors Detail - Draft Roll - 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ↑ "Gujarat: Order No. 33: Table-A: Assembly Constituency and Their Extent" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Delimitation Commission of India. 12 December 2006. pp. 2–31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ↑ "Delimitation Commission of India : Notification" (PDF). Eci.nic.in. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
Coordinates: 22°16′N 70°53′E / 22.26°N 70.89°E
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