Dhoraji Assembly constituency

{{short description|Legislative Assembly constituency in Gujarat State, India}}

{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| name = Dhoraji

| mla = Dr. Mahendrabhai Padalia

| party = Bharatiya Janata Party

| latest_election_year = 2022

| state = Gujarat

| district = Rajkot

| loksabha_cons = Porbandar

| established = 1990

| reservation = None

| electors = {{formatnum:268706}}{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/14750-gujarat-general-legislative-election-2022/ |title=Gujarat General Legislative Election 2022 |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date= 18 April 2023}}{{update after|2028|2}}

| type = SLA

| constituency_no = 75

}}

Dhoraji is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125011107/http://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/download/PCAC.pdf |url=http://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/download/PCAC.pdf |archive-date=25 January 2014 |title=Parliament / Assembly constituency wise PS & Electors Detail - Draft Roll - 2014 |access-date= 1 June 2021|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Gujarat/gujarat.pdf |title=Gujarat: Order No. 33: Table-A: Assembly constituency and Their Extent |date=12 December 2006 |website=Election Commission of India |publisher=Delimitation Commission of India |pages=2–31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015941/http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Gujarat/gujarat.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=12 February 2017 }} It is part of Rajkot district, and is one of the 8 assembly seats under Porbandar.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments,{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Gujarat/gujarat.pdf|title=Gujarat: Order No. 33: Table-A: Assembly constituency and Their Extent|date=12 December 2006|website=Election Commission of India|publisher=Delimitation Commission of India|pages=2–31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015941/http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/Gujarat/gujarat.pdf|archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=12 February 2017}}

  1. Upleta Taluka
  2. Dhoraji Taluka

==Members of Legislative Assembly==

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Year

!Member

!Picture

!colspan="2"|Party

1990

|rowspan=5| Vitthalbhai Radadiya

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|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2}}

1995
1998

|{{Full party name with color|Rashtriya Janata Party}}

2002

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}

2007
2009^

| Jayesh Radadiya

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
2012

| Vitthalbhai Radadiya

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
2013^

| Pravin Makadiya

|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
2017

| Lalit Vasoya

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
2022

| Dr. Mahendrabhai Padalia

|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

  • 2009^ (by-poll) - Jayesh Radadiya, after his father Vitthal Radadiya became an MP and gave up his Vidhan Saha seat
  • 2012 - Vitthalbhai Radadiya, Congress
  • Vitthalbhai Radadiya joined BJP soon after the 2012 election and resigned from the assembly
  • 2013^ (by-poll)

Election results

= 2022 =

{{Election box begin|

|title=Gujarat Assembly election, 2022:Dhoraji Assembly constituency }}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Mahendra Padalia|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes=66430|percentage=42.84|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Lalit Vasoya|party=Indian National Congress|votes=54182|percentage=34.95|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Vipul Sakhiya{{cite news |title=AAP releases second list of 9 candidates for Gujarat Assembly polls |url=https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2022/08/18/bom12-gj-aap-candidates.html |access-date=18 August 2022 |work=The Week |date=18 August 2022 |language=en}}|party=Aam Aadmi Party|votes=29794|percentage=19.22|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Prabhat Govind Solanki|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|votes=1577|percentage=1.02|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=None of the above|party=None of the above|votes=1620|percentage=1.04|change=}}

{{Election box majority||votes=12,248|percentage=7.89|change=}}

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=2013=

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Pravin Makadiya

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 44,751

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Haribhai Patel

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 33,254

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=2012=

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Vitthalbhai Radadiya

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 76189

|percentage = 46.44

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Haribhai Patel

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 73246

|percentage = 44.65

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{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2943

|percentage = 1.79

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 164045

|percentage = 70.86

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{{Election box hold with party link|

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|loser = Bharatiya Janata Party

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See also

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