Gujarat Porbandar Result 2022: Arjunbhai Modhwadia of Congress WINS by 8181 votes

Gujarat Porbandar Result 2022: Porbandar is one of the important assembly constituencies in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly. In the Porbandar Assembly constituency, Congress's Arjunbhai Devabhai Modhwadia won by 8181 votes. 

A total of 11 candidates contested in the Gujarat Porbandar elections 2022: Babubhai Bhimabhai Bokhiriya (BJP), Jivan Jungi (AAP), Jethabhai Bhanabhai Chavda (Bahujan Republican Socialist Party), Arjunbhai Devabhai Modhwadia (INC), Prakashbhai Vallabhdas Unadkat (IND), Odedara Ranmalbhai Rambhai (IND), Odedara Lakhanshi Deva (IND), Manoj Babu Buddhecha (IND), Mukesh Ramji Panjari (IND), Rajesh Gaurishankar Pandya (Right to Recall Party), Rameshbhai Rajabhai Daki (SP)

As per the data available at the Election Commission of India, Arjunbhai Devabhai Modhwadia bagged 82056 votes while BJP's Babubhai Bhimabhai Bokhiriya won 73875 votes securing the second spot. Jivan Jungi of AAP is at the third spot with 5319 votes.

Porbandar is an Assembly constituency in the Porbandar district in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. It is one of the two Assembly seats of Gujarat's Porbandar district apart from Kutiyana. The Porbandar Lok Sabha constituency consists of seven Assembly seats. The Porbandar Assembly constituency is an open seat, meaning that there is a reservation for neither Scheduled Castes (SC) nor Scheduled Tribes (SC). Arjun Modhvadiya, the leader of the Congress, was defeated in 2017 by the BJP's Babubhai Bhimabhai Bokhiriya by 1,855 votes.

The state Assembly polls were held in two phases, with polling for the first phase in 89 seats held on December 1, and for the remaining 93 seats on December 5. The elections witnessed a turnout of 64.33 percent, around 4 percent less than the previous Assembly polls in 2017. Of the 4.9 crore registered voters, only 3.16 crore voted in the 2022 elections. The ruling BJP contested all 182 seats, while the new entrant in the state's political landscape, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), contested 181 seats. The main Opposition party, the Congress, contested 179 seats, while its alliance partner, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), contested two seats. A total of 1,621 candidates were in the fray.