Surat West
Constituency for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionWestern India
StateGujarat
DistrictSurat
LS constituencySurat
Total electors256,881[1]
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2022

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

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments,[4]

  1. Surat City Taluka (Part) – Surat Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No.-14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 63, 64, 65.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
2007 Kishor Vankawala Bharatiya Janata Party
2012
2013 Purnesh Modi[5]
2017
2022

Election results

2022

Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, 2022: Surat West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Purnesh Modi 122,981 75.73
INC Sanjay Rameshchandra Patwa 18,669 11.5
AAP Moxesh Rameshchandra Sanghavi 16,955 10.44
NOTA None of the above 2,441 1.5
Majority 1,04,312 64.23
Turnout
Registered electors 2,53,691 [6]
BJP hold Swing

2017

Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Surat West[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Purnesh Modi 111,615 74.27 +0.01
INC Iqbal Patel 33,733 22.45 +0.44
Independent Sonal Rochani 461
AIHCP Nilpesh Patel 458
NCP Ravishankar Paliwal 451
BSP Data Hurbanu Mosalim 419
Independent Mohammad Salim Yusuf Selod 270
SHS Prashant Lokare 208
Independent Soeb Shah 185
Independent Sheikh Ali Haidar Jilani 122
Independent Farjanabibi Shah 117
Independent Dilip Natvar Parekh 92
Bharatiya Bahujan Congress Sachin Barsing 89
Independent Alimunbi Shah 71
NOTA None of the Above 1,986 1.32
Majority 77,882 51.82
Turnout 1,50,277 67.68
BJP hold Swing

2013 by-elections

Due to death of sitting MLA Kishor Vankawala, by-elections were held on 4 December 2013 and results declared on 8 December.[7]

2013 by-elections: Surat West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Purnesh Modi
INC D L Patel
Majority
Turnout
BJP hold Swing

2012

[8]
2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Surat West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Kishor Vankawala 99,099 74.26
INC Ushaben Patel 29,368 22.01
Majority 69,731 52.25
Turnout 1,33,445 67.86
BJP hold Swing

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 "Gujarat General Legislative Election 2017". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Gujarat Legislative Elections". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Surat-West seat: BJP's Purnesh Modi to slug it out with Cong's D L Patel". Indian Express. 16 November 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  8. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2014.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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