Gandhinagar civic polls: BJP wins 38 seats, Congress secures 5, AAP draws a blank

 Gandhinagar civic polls: BJP wins 38 seats, Congress secures 5, AAP draws a blank

Gujarat goes to polls in November 2027. Hence, municipal polls in state capital Gandhinagar - adjacent to politically sensitive Ahmedabad was important. 

The BJP has retained control of the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation.

The results reaffirm the BJP's dominance in the state capital's civic body.

The BJP won 38 of the 44 seats in the civic body elections. Although the dominant ruling party's seat tally has declined from the 41 seats it won in the October 2021 election. The Congress, which had secured two seats last time, improved its tally to five.

Importantly, an Independent candidate secured one. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which had won a seat in the previous election, failed to open its account this time. 

In 2022 assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory of 156 seats, the most ever won by any party in Gujarat's history. 

The Congress fell to its lowest count - 17 in the 182-member assembly in the state. But he Aam Aadmi Party had harmed Congress the most and had gained five seats.  

In 2022, in terms of vote share 

the BJP had bagged 52.50 % votes with a swing of 3.45 percentage.

The Congress vote share was 27.28% and there was negative swing was 

14.66 percentage while the AAP had bagged 12.92 percent of votes with a positive swing of 12.82 percentage.

 

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