Gujarat Valsad Result 2022: Bharatbhai Kikubhai Patel of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading from the Valsad Assembly seat of Gujarat. According to the latest data available on the website of the Election Commission at 2:20 pm, Kikubhai Patel has voted 1,26,323 votes or 71.75 per cent of the total votes. Aam Aadmi Party's Rajeshbhai Mangubhai Patel was at a distant second with 22,547 votes. 

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Others in the fray from this Assembly seat are - Kamalbhai Shantilal Patel of Congress, Kamleshbhai Bharatbhai Yogi of Samajwadi Party, Mahesh Vinayakray Acharya of Praja Vijay Paksh, Rajeshbhai Thakorbhai Gohil of Bharatiya Republican Paksha, Hemantkumar Gopalbhai Tandel of Rashtriya Samaj Paksha. So far NOTA has got around 2,800 votes. 

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party looked set for its best-ever victory tally in the Gujarat Assembly polls, the saffron outfit termed it as a reflection of its development agenda and a defeat of the Congress's "negative politics".

The Congress was seen finishing a distant second, with leads in 18 seats, while the AAP was leading in 6 seats. Others, including independent candidates, were ahead in 3 seats, the Election Commission said as the counting of votes crossed the half-way mark in most constituencies.

The BJP has so far received 53 per cent of the votes counted, while Congress had 27 per cent and AAP 13 per cent.

If the trends continued through the day, the BJP would not only beat its best showing till date - 127 seats in 2002, but also surpass the all-time record set by the Congress party in 1985, when it won 149 seats under the leadership of late Madhavsinh Solanki.

In winning for a seventh term, the party would also equal the Left Front's feat in West Bengal.