Gujarat Election 2022: Who will be the next chief minister? Check details

Gujarat Election Result 2022: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set for a landslide victory in Gujarat. The ruling party will retain power for a record seventh straight term. After the first four hours of counting of votes in the Assembly elections in the BJP-ruled states of Gujarat, early trends showed that the saffron party with a vote share of nearly 54 per cent was ahead in 152 out of 182 seats in the western state and could surpass its previous best showing of 127 seats in 2002 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief minister. 

Congress holds the all-time record of 149 seats that it won in 1985 under the leadership of Madhavsinh Solanki.

Banking on the charisma of Modi, who addressed as many as 30 election rallies, the BJP overcame anti-incumbency yet again after being in power for 27 years without losing an election since 1995. It had 99 seats in the outgoing house with a 49.1 per cent vote share.

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With its expected huge victory in the home state of Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, the BJP, which focused on a development agenda, was set to equal the Left Front's feat of seven consecutive terms in West Bengal. The CPI(M)-led Front ruled the eastern state for 34 years from 1977 to 2011.

Gujarat Election 2022: Who will be next chief minister?

Ahead of Gujarat Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said that Bhupendra Patel will remain the Chief Minister of the state if the party comes to power. 

"If BJP gets a majority in Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel will be the next chief minister," PTI quoted Shah as saying.

Gujarat Election 2022: Bhupendra Patel 

Bhupendra Patel replaced Vijay Rupani as the chief minister in September 2021, a move that surprised many. He is the first-time MLA from the Ghatlodia constituency. He is renominated from the same seat.

Gujarat Election 2022: AAP Chief Minister Candidate 

Earlier, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party had declared party leader Isudan Gadhvi as the chief ministerial candidate after conducting a "public survey". 

In the 2017 polls, the BJP's winning tally came down to two digits at 99 while the Congress bettered its performance by winning 77 seats. With its aggressive campaign, AAP is projecting itself as the main challenger to BJP in the state, where polls have typically remained a bilateral contest between the saffron party and Congress.