Gujarat Assembly Election Result 2022 LIVE Updates: The counting of votes and consequent declaration of results of the high-stakes Gujarat Assembly Election is today (December 8), sealing the fate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) among other parties. The BJP has been ruling the state for the past 27 years and is confident to win a majority in the state, this time as well.
The Zee News exit poll results, on Monday, showed strong chances of victory for the saffron party as its star campaigners including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah extensively toured the state to mobilise support from people to vote for the BJP. Arvind Kejriwal's AAP, a new contender in the Gujarat Assembly Election, is expected to eat into Congress' vote share in the state, while Congress is expected to lose its hold in the state.
The BJP had announced its Chief Ministerial candidate as Bhupendra Patel who is the current CM of the state. On the other hand, AAP had announced Isudan Gadhvi as its CM face for Gujarat. There are 182 single-member constituencies in Gujarat for which 1621 candidates will contest. Other parties contesting the Gujarat elections are All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M), and Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP).
Some of the key candidates from the parties contesting are Hardik Patel, Rivaba Jadeja, Lakhabhai Bharwad, and Alpesh Thakore among others.
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