Unjha Assembly constituency

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

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

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| name = Unjha

| mla = Patel Kiritkumar Keshavlal (K. K. Patel)

| party = Bharatiya Janata Party

| latest_election_year = 2022

| state = Gujarat

| district = Mahesana

| loksabha_cons = Mahesana

| established = 1962

| reservation = None

| electors = {{formatnum:232996}}{{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 = 21

}}

Unjha 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 Mahesana district, numbered as 21-Unjha and is one of the seven Vidhan Sabha segments which fall under Mahesana Lok Sabha constituency.

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=|access-date=12 February 2017}}

  1. Unjha Taluka
  2. Vadnagar Taluka (Part) Villages – Jaska, Sundhiya, Hajipur, Shekhpur (Khe), Badarpur, Molipur, Sulipur, Kesimpa, Jagapura, Bajpura, Babipura, Khatoda, Kamalpur, Malekpur, Chandpur, Shekhpur (Vad), Kahipur, Chhabaliya, Transvad, Vadnagar (M).

Members of Legislative Assembly

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Member

!Picture

!colspan=2|Party

1962

|Ambalal Mohanlal Patel

|

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

1967

|P. S. Mohanlal

|

|{{Full party name with color|Swatantra Party}}

1972

|Shankerlal Mohanlal Guru

|

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

1975

|Kantilal Manilal Patel

|

|{{Full party name with color|Independent (politician)}}

1980

|Kanjibhai Lalludas Patel

|

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

1985

| rowspan="2" |Chimanbhai Patel

|

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

1990

|

|{{Full party name with color|Janata Dal}}

1995

| rowspan="5" | Narayanbhai Patel

rowspan="5" |

|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=5}}

1998
2002
2007
2012
2017

| rowspan="2" |Asha Patel

rowspan="2" |

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

2019 Bypoll{{cite news|last1=The Economic Times|title=BJP wins all 4 assembly bypolls in Gujarat, tally crosses 100|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/assembly-elections/bjp-wins-all-4-assembly-bypolls-in-gujarat-tally-crosses-100/articleshow/69478626.cms?from=mdr|accessdate=2 October 2023|date=24 May 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002181015/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/assembly-elections/bjp-wins-all-4-assembly-bypolls-in-gujarat-tally-crosses-100/articleshow/69478626.cms?from=mdr|archivedate=2 October 2023}}

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

2022

| Patel Kiritkumar Keshavlal (K K Patel)

Election results

= 2022 =

{{Election box begin|

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

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Patel Kiritkumar Keshavlal (K. K. Patel)

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 88561

|percentage = 59.75

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Patel Arvind Amrutlal (Bhuro)

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 37093

|percentage = 25.03

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Urvishkumar Babubhai Patel

|party = Aam Aadmi Party

|votes = 18461

|percentage = 12.46

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = None of the above

|party = None of the above

|votes = 1775

|percentage = 1.2

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes =

|percentage = 34.72

|change =

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{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = {{formatnum:232870}}

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser =

|swing =

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{{Election box end}}

= 2019 by-poll =

{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 2019: Unjha}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|candidate = Dr. Ashaben Dwarkadas Patel

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 77,459

|percentage =

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Patel Kantibhai Muljidas

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 54,387

|percentage =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Natvarji Babuji Thakor

|party =Nationalist Congress Party

|votes =5,620

|percentage =

|change =

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{{Election box majority|

|votes = 23,072

|percentage =

|change =

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{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 1,48,448

|percentage =67.55

|change =

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{{Election box gain with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser = Indian National Congress

|swing =

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{{Election box end}}

= 2017 =

{{Election box begin | title=Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Unjha{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3841-gujarat-general-legislative-election-2017/ |title=Gujarat General Legislative Election 2017 |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date= 11 July 2021}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|candidate = Dr. Ashaben Dwarkadas Patel

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 74,438

|percentage = 54.23%

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Narayanbhai Patel

|party = None of the above

|votes = 55,053

|percentage = 40.11%

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 19,385

|percentage =

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{{Election box end}}

=2012=

{{Election box begin | title=Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012}}{{Cite web |url=http://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/download/Detail_Report_AC2012.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=9 June 2014 |archive-date=26 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126215052/http://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/download/Detail_Report_AC2012.pdf |url-status=dead }}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Narayanbhai Patel

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 75708

|percentage = 55.71

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Dr. Ashaben Dwarkadas Patel

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 51507

|percentage = 37.90

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 24201

|percentage = 17.81

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 135887

|percentage = 70.17

|change =

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|loser = Indian National Congress

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

See also

References

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