Rajkot South
Constituency No. 70 for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionWestern India
StateGujarat
DistrictRajkot
LS constituencyRajkot
Established2008
Total electors258,831[1]
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Rameshbhai Virjibhai Tilala
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2022

Rajkot South is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.[2][3] It is part of Rajkot district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments[4]

  1. Rajkot Taluka (Part) – Rajkot Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No. – 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Member of Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
2012 Govind Patel Bharatiya Janata Party
2017[5]
2022 Rameshbhai Virjibhai Tilala

Election results

2022

Gujarat Assembly election, 2022: Rajkot South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Rameshbhai Virjibhai Tilala[6] 101734 66.37
AAP Shivlal Barasia 22870 14.92
INC Hitesh Maganbhai Vora 22507 14.68
Independent Parekh Punitaben Hasmukhbhai 2842 1.85
NOTA None of the Above 2353 1.54
Majority 51.45
Turnout
Registered electors 257,154 [7]
BJP hold Swing

2017

Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Rajkot South[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Govind Patel 98,951 63.18 +6.73
INC Dr. Dinesh Chovatiya 51,830 33.09 -2.57
Majority 47,121 30.09 +9.29
Turnout 1,56,612 64.58 -0.07
Registered electors 242,500 [5]
BJP hold Swing

2012

2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Rajkot South[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Govind Patel 77,308 56.45
INC Mitul Donga 48,831 35.66
Majority 28,477 20.80
Turnout 1,36,938 64.65
BJP win (new seat)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Gujarat General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  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. ^ "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.
  5. ^ a b c "Gujarat General Legislative Election 2017". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  6. ^ "BJP releases list of 10 candidates for 2022 Gujarat assembly elections". Hindustan Times. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Gujarat Legislative Elections". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Gujarat Assembly Elections – 2012" (PDF). Ceo.gujarat.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2015.

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