Elections in Gujarat

Elections in Gujarat have been conducted since 1962 to elect the members of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly and the members of the lower house of the Indian Parliament, the Lok Sabha. There are 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies and 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.[1]

Major political parties

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Aam Admi Party are currently represented in the state legislature. Other parties which have been influential in the past include Swatantra Party, Praja Socialist Party (PSP), Indian National Congress (Organisation) (NCO), Janata Party, Janata Dal, Janata Dal (Gujarat) (JDG) and Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP).

Lok Sabha elections

Gujarat was a part of the erstwhile Bombay State till 1960.

Election year Lok Sabha 1st party 2nd party Others Total seats Remarks
1962 3rd INC 16 SWP 4 PSP 1, NGJP 1 22 INC win
1967 4th SWP 12 INC 11 IND 1 24 SWP gain from INC
1971 5th INC 11 INC(O) 11 SWP 2 24 INC gain from SWP
1977 6th JP 16 INC 10 26 JP gain from INC
1980 7th INC 25 JP 1 26 INC gain from JP
1984 8th INC 24 BJP 1 JP 1 26 INC hold
1989 9th BJP 12 JD 11 INC 3 26 BJP gain from INC
1991 10th BJP 20 INC 5 JD(G) 1 26 BJP hold
1996 11th BJP 16 INC 10 26 BJP hold
1998 12th BJP 19 INC 7 26 BJP hold
1999 13th BJP 20 INC 6 26 BJP hold
2004 14th BJP 14 INC 12 26 BJP hold
2009 15th BJP 15 INC 11 26 BJP hold
2014 16th BJP 26 26 BJP hold
2019 17th BJP 26 26 BJP hold
2024 18th BJP 25 INC 1 26 BJP hold

Legislative Assembly elections

Elections for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly have been held since 1962.

Election year Legislative Assembly 1st party 2nd party 3rd party Others Total seats Chief minister CM's party Remarks
1962 2nd INC 113 SWP 15 PSP 7 NMGJP 1, IND 7 154 Jivraj Narayan Mehta INC INC form
Balwantrai Mehta
Hitendra Desai
1967 3rd INC 93 SWP 66 PSP 3 BJS 1, IND 5 168 Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai INC(O) INC hold
1972 4th INC 140 INC(O) 16 BJS 3 CPI 1, IND 1 168 Ghanshyam Oza INC INC hold
Chimanbhai Patel
1975 5th INC 75 INC(O) 56 BJS 18 KLP 12, BLD 2,SP 2, RMP 1, IND 16 182 Babubhai J. Patel INC(O) INC hold
Madhav Singh Solanki INC
Babubhai J. Patel JP
1980 6th INC 141 JP 21 BJP 9 JP(S) 1, IND 10 182 Madhav Singh Solanki INC INC hold
1985 7th INC 149 JP 14 BJP 11 IND 8 182 Madhav Singh Solanki INC INC hold
Amarsinh Chaudhary
Madhav Singh Solanki
1990 8th JD 70 BJP 67 INC 33 YVP 1,IND 11 182 Chimanbhai Patel JD JD gain from INC
INC
Chhabildas Mehta
1995 9th BJP 121 INC 45 IND 16 182 Keshubhai Patel BJP BJP gain from INC
Suresh Mehta
Shankersinh Vaghela RJP
Dilip Parikh
1998 10th BJP 117 INC 53 RJP 4 JD 4,SP 1, IND 3 182 Keshubhai Patel BJP BJP gain from RJP
Narendra Modi
2002 11th BJP 127 INC 51 JD(U) 2 IND 2 182 Narendra Modi BJP hold
2007 12th BJP 117 INC 59 NCP 3 JD(U) 1,IND 2 182 Narendra Modi BJP hold
2012 13th BJP 115 INC 61 GPP 2 NCP 2,JD(U) 1,IND 1 182 Narendra Modi BJP hold
Anandiben Patel
Vijay Rupani
2017 14th BJP 99 INC 78 BTP 2 NCP 1,IND 2 182 Vijay Rupani BJP hold
Bhupendrabhai Patel
2022 15th BJP 156 INC 17 AAP 5 SP 1,IND 2 182 Bhupendrabhai Patel BJP hold

References

  1. ↑ "Elections in Gujarat". elections.in. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
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