Gujarat: Assembly elections

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This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content.

Chief ministers

1960-2012

Chief Ministers, Gujarat, May 1960- December 2022
From: Dec 9, 2022: The Times of India

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Chief Ministers, Gujarat, May 1960- December 2022

1962-2017: the winning party and 1st runner up

i) 1962-2017: the party that won the Gujarat Assembly elections and the 1st runner up; and
ii) The vote shares of the two top parties.
From: December 19, 2017: The Times of India

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i) 1962-2017: the party that won the Gujarat Assembly elections and the 1st runner up; and
ii) The vote shares of the two top parties.

1995-2017

Uday Mahurkar , Caste rules ”India Today” 1/1/2018

Caste Rules ”India Today”

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Caste Rules

Vote share

1962-2017

Dec 9, 2022: The Times of India

Vote share, Gujarat assembly elections, 1962- 2017
From: Dec 9, 2022: The Times of India

In 1962, BJP’s precursor BJS won only 1. 3% of the votes in Gujarat to Congress’s 50. 8%. By 1995, BJP’s vote share had crossed 40% and has remained in the high-40s since 2002. Post 2002, neither has the Congress vote share dipped below 38%, going up to 41. 4% in 2017. BJP and Congress have run Gujarat for about equal lengths of time. Congress’s stint from 1960 to 1990 was interspersed with brief periods of President’s Rule and Janata Party governments. BJP has more or less held the reins since 1995.

2012, 2014, 2017: performance of BJP and Congress

The performance of the BJP and Congress in the various regions and among various communities in the elections of 2012, 2014 and 2017
From: December 19, 2017: The Times of India

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The performance of the BJP and Congress in the various regions and among various communities in the elections of 2012, 2014 and 2017

2022; 2012,17, 22

Dec 9, 2022: The Times of India

Gujarat, Assembly elections- results, some details, 2022
From: Dec 9, 2022: The Times of India

The saffron party retains office in Gujarat with a vastly improved electoral performance, securing about 50% more seats than what it did in 2017. The party’s vote share also crossed 50% for the first time. It was a rout for Congress while AAP managed to open its account in the state though it fell well short of hyped-up expectations

Muslim candidates

Dec 9, 2022: The Times of India

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Ahmedabad : Gujarat has sent just one Muslim representative to the assembly, from 230 Muslim candidates in the fray from 73 seats.


The number has consistently declined since 1980, when 12 Muslims were returned to the assembly after the Congress party deployed its KHAM (Kshatriya, Harijan, Adivasi, Muslim) social engineering formula. Voters had returned three Muslims — Mohammed Javed Pirzada, Gyasuddin Shaikh and Imran Khedawala — on Congress ticket in the last election. This time the party fielded six Muslims but only Khedawala waded through the challenge put up by BJP and AIMIM.


Two other Congress MLAs who were seeking re-election failed. Shaikh from Dariapur, which has a 46% Muslim vote share, lost to BJP’s Kaushik Jain. The other Muslim MLA from Congress who lost this time is Mohammad Javed Pirzada of Wankaner in Morbi district. The Pirzada family has dominated this seat for two generations.


All three Muslim candidates fielded by Aam Aadmi Party lost. BSP fielded the most Muslim candidates, but none won.