Gujarat Election Result 2022: AAP CM face Isudan Gadhvi loses by over 18,000 votes in Khambhalia

Khambhalia Election Results 2022: Isudan Gadhvi, the Aam Aadmi Party's CM face in Gujarat, lost in the Assembly election from Khambhalia on Thursday by more than 18,000 votes as his BJP rival came back from behind to clinch the seat, a PTI report said. 

Gadhvi was leading at the end of the fourth round over Congress's incumbent MLA Vikram Madam, while the BJP's Mulubhai Bera was trailing in the third place.
But Bera surpassed his rivals in the later rounds of vote counting. Khambhalia emerged as one of the high-profile seats in the Gujarat Assembly elections after the AAP fielded Gadhvi, its CM face, from this constituency in the Saurashtra region.

A former TV news anchor, Gadhvi was born and brought up in Khambhalia. But social equations in this Ahir-dominated seat probably did not favour him as his own Gadhvi community is numerically not significant in the area, PTI report added. 

On the other hand, both Madam of the Congress and the BJP's Bera come from the Ahir community. Madam had also enjoyed the support of the Muslim community which constitutes the second largest voting bloc, but this time around it seemed to have favoured the AAP.

In the last several decades, no non-Ahir candidate has won from the seat.

The candidates contesting from Khambhalia Assembly seats were Ayar Mulubhai Hardasbhai Bera (BJP), Ahir Vikrambhai Arjanbhai Maadam (INC), Solanki Govind Hamirbhai (BSP), Isudan Gadhvi(AAP), Chetariya Lakhubhai Lagdhirbhai (GNNS), Bukhari Yakub Mohammad Hushen (AIMIM). Candidates also include independent candidates - Ibrahimbhai Amadbhai Ghavda, Nangesh Karsan Jeshabhai, Nurmamad Jusab Pariyani, Manjuben Karabhai Pingal, Vala Hamir Makvana.

Khambhalia constituency

Khambhalia is constituency eighty-one of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. It is one of the two Assembly seats of Gujarat's Devbhoomi Dwarka district apart from Dwarka. It is one of the seven Assembly seats that make up the Jamnagar Lok Sabha constituency. This Assembly constituency is a general seat, i.e. it is not reserved for Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes.

Khambhalia constituency History

In 2017, Congress candidate Vikrambhai Arjanbhai Madam Ahir defeated BJP candidate Kalubhai Naranbhai Chavda by 11,046 votes.

Gujarat Election 2022

The Gujarat Assembly elections were held in two phases on December 1 and 5 across 33 districts.
While the contest in Gujarat has traditionally been between the BJP and Congress, it was three-cornered this time around with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) entering the poll arena.
Voter turnout stood at 66.31 per cent, lower than the 71.28 per cent recorded in the 2017 Assembly elections. The fate of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)'s chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi, youth leaders Hardik Patel, Jignesh Mevani and Alpesh Thakor, among a total 1,621 candidates will be decided on Thursday.

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