Rajkot East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Rajkot East
Constituency
for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
DistrictRajkot
StateGujarat
Electorate260,007[1][needs update]
Lok Sabha ConstituencyRajkot
Current constituency
Created2017
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
MLAArvind Raiyani
ReservationNone

Rajkot East is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.[2][3] It is part of Rajkot district.

List of segments[edit]

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 Assembly[edit]

Year Member Party
2012 Indranil Rajguru Indian National Congress
2017 Arvind Raiyani[1] Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results[edit]

2017[edit]

Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Rajkot East[1]
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

2012[edit]

2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Rajkot East
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 also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gujarat General Legislative Election 2017". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  2. "Parliament / Assembly Constituency wise PS & Electors Detail - Draft Roll - 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  3. "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.
  4. "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 / 22.26; 70.89