BJP takes massive lead, AAP wins 46 seats : Gujarat local body election results 2021 LIVE Updates
Gujarat local body poll results: Counting of votes for polls to 81 municipalities, 31 district panchayats and 231 taluka panchayats in Gujarat is being held today. The elections, which witnessed a three-way contest between BJP, Congress and AAP, saw the municipalities recording a voter turnout of 58.82 per cent, district panchayats 65.80 per cent and taluka panchayats 66.60 per cent. Polls were held for 8,235 out of 8,474 seats as candidates were elected unopposed on 237 seats. Here are the live updates:
According to trends at 1 pm, BJP seems to have consolidated its lead and is likely to win by a huge margin in the municipalities, district panchayats and taluka panchayats. Congress is a distant second. The AAP has won about 46 seats so far in the local body polls.
District Panchayat: 403 seats declared out of 980
BJP: 315
Congress: 75
Others: 13
Tehsil Panchayat: 2018 seats declared out of 4774
BJP: 1,620
Congress: 368
Others: 030
Municipality: 1791 seats declared out of 2720
BJP: 1,395
Congress: 365
Others: 31
As per the latest trends, BJP has stolen a march in the Gujarat local bodies elections, with Congress a distant second. The AAP, which is contesting for the first time, has nothing major to show so far.
Nagarpalika: 904 seats declared out of 2720
BJP - 672
Congress - 203
AAP - 22
Others - 7
Zila Parishad: 265 seats declared out of 980
BJP - 187
Congress- 65
AAP - 2
Independents - 11
Tehsil Panchayat: 919 seats declared out of 4774
BJP - 718
Congress - 177
AAP - 18
In Junagadh, results of nine out of 158 seats have been declared. Congress is in the driver's seat with victory in 5 seats while BJP and AAP have bagged 2 seats each. In other regions, BJP has emerged victorious in Ganjisar seat of Santalpur taluka panchayat, Ward No.1 of Bardoli Nagarpalika, Ward No.1 of Amod Nagarpalika and Botad Nagarpalika.
According to latest data, votes for 318 out of the total 8,235 seats that went to polls have been counted. BJP has won 308 seats, Congress 9 and AAP 1. BJP is also leading in 20 out of 31 district panchayats. Yash Kotwal, son of senior Congress MLA Ashwin Kotwal, lost in Sabarkantha tehsil seat.
With counting underway in Gujarat local bodies polls, BJP is leading in both Unjha nagarpalika and Kutch tehsil while AAP has won the Jamnagar panchayat tehsil. The BJP has been the dominant force in the state for several years now.
In the February 21 elections, the BJP won with a majority across all the six municipal corporations -- Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar. The saffron party bagged 483 of the 576 seats. The AAP bagged 27 seats in Surat, making inroads in the state. The main opposition Congress got a drubbing, as it won only 55 seats and failed even to open account in Surat. Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM, which also contested local body polls in Gujarat for the first time, won seven seats in Ahmedabad's Muslim-dominated Jamalpur and Maktampura wards.
The polling for the Gujarat local bodies elections were held on Sunday. For the 8,235 seats, the BJP fielded 8,161 candidates, Congress 7,778, Aam Aadmi Party 2,090, among others. Re-polling was held on Monday at a booth in Ghodiya in Jhalod taluka of Dahod district after two EVMs were damaged during Sunday's polling by three people. Meanwhile, 17 people were arrested in Vadodara for allegedly taking custody of EVMs on Sunday evening in Tarsva in Waghodia taluka, PTI reported. The mob had claimed the EVMs were tampered and police had to fire a round in the air and lob four teargas shells to bring the situation under control, PTI quoted a police official as saying.
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