Gujarat Assembly Election Result 2022 Date Announced - Check details

Gujarat Election Result Date 2022: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday announced the schedule for the upcoming Gujrat assembly elections. Gujrat Legislative Assembly has a total of 182 assembly constituencies, with 92 being the majority mark. The BJP, which has been in power in Gujarat for more than 20 years, is looking to retain the state for another five years. The other prominent political parties in the fray are Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress.

The term of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly ends on February 18 next year. As per the Constitution, a new Assembly should be constituted before the expiry if the current Assembly. 

Gujarat Assembly Election Result 2022 Date

The state will vote to elect its next government on December 1 and 2 in two phases, respectively. On 8 December, the results will be declared along with Himachal Pradesh.

Earlier, the Himachal Pradesh election dates were made public by the ECI. Rajiv Kumar, the state's chief election commissioner, announced that voting will take place on November 12 and that results will be tallied on December 8. The BJP will seek to break the three-decade trend of no ruling party returning to power by defeating the main opposition Congress in the hill state in the elections for the 68-member Assembly with over 55 lakh eligible voters. However, the election commission had held off on declaring the Gujarat Assembly election schedule.

"The Election Commission goes by convention in announcing poll schedules. It has decided to go by the convention which was last followed," Kumar had told reporters when asked why Gujarat polls were not announced.

Kumar asserted that polls in one state would not affect elections in the other as "there is a gap of 40 days" in the qualifying dates of the state assemblies of Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. The term of the Himachal Pradesh assembly ends on January 8, 2023.

There are speculations that Gujarat elections will still be held in the November-December period so that the votes can be counted on the same day as was the case in 2017. In 2017, the Commission announced elections to Himachal Pradesh on October 12 and to Gujarat on October 25. The counting of votes was held on December 18.

However, some opposition leaders claimed that announcing Gujarat elections later could allow the incumbent government to roll out more welfare schemes before the model code of conduct kicks in.

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