BJP president Amit Shah led the charge for BJP’s clean sweep in Gujarat for the second consecutive Lok Sabha election.
In his parliamentary election debut, Shah won from the Gandhinagar seat with a margin of 5,57,014 votes, surpassing his predecessor, L.K. Advani’s victory margin of 4,83,121.
result with molitics https://www.molitics.in/election/result
At 9:45 pm, the ruling party’s vote share in Gujarat stood at over 62.2%. In 2014, the final polling percentage for the BJP in the western state was 60.11%.
Congress’ hopes had been raised due to early morning leads in Dahod, Amreli, Navsari and Sabarkantha. However, BJP had managed to gain ground in all of them and surged ahead.
By 10 pm on Thursday, results for 10 seats out of 26 had been declared, including Gandhinagar.
The results also show the largest victory margin by C.R. Patil in Navsari of 6.9 lakh.
BJP is also on way to bag all the four assembly seats in by-polls. So far, the party has already been declared a winner in Jamnagar rural assembly segment with a victory margin of 33,022 votes and Manavadar with 9,759 votes. The BJP candidates are also leading in Dhrangadhra and Unjha.