Gujarat Election Results: BJP Bags 99, To Form Govt For 6th Time

Catch live updates of the Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017 results.

Gujarat Records 67.40% Voter Turnout

100% Match in Random Vote Count on EVMs and Paper Trail Slips: EC Official

There was a "100 per cent match" in the random vote count on EVMs and paper trail slips carried out by the Election Commission in 182 Gujarat polling stations today, a senior official said.

The EC had said it would conduct random vote counts on EVMs and VVPAT slips in one polling station in each of the 182 Assembly constituencies. The polling stations were decided through a draw of lots in which the candidates or their agents were also present.

The EC had decided to match the tally in select polling stations amid allegations that the EVMs were compromised to help the BJP.

Counting Ends With BJP Winning 99 Seats

Jaitley To Visit Gujarat, Discuss Leadership in State

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and General Secretary of the party Saroj Pandey will go as observers to Gujarat and discuss about the leadership in the state, said JP Nadda, after the Parliamentary board meeting.

BJP's Bhupendra Patel Wins with the Highest Margin

BJP candidate from Ghatlodiya, Bhupendra Patel, was the one to win by the highest margin during this year’s assembly elections.

He got 1,75,652 votes, against 57,902 votes won by Congress candidate, Shashikant Patel, in Ghatlodiya, thus giving him a comfortable victory by a margin of 1,17,750 votes.

The margin is even higher than the margin of 1,10,395 votes by which former Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel won from Ghatlodiya in the previous assembly elections in 2012.