Vejalpur 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 = Vejalpur

| mla = Amit Thaker

| party = Bharatiya Janata Party

| latest_election_year = 2022

| state = Gujarat

| district = Ahmedabad

| loksabha_cons = Gandhinagar

| established = 2008

| reservation = None

| electors = {{formatnum:388893}}{{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 = 42

}}

Vejalpur 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 Ahmedabad district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation.

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. Ahmedabad City Taluka (Part) Villages – Vastrapur, Maktampur, Gyaspur, Vejalpur (M), Makarba (CT), Sarkhej-Okaf (M), Jodhpur (M).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

!Member

!colspan="2"|Political Party

2012

| rowspan="2" | Kishor Chauhan

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}

2017
2022

| Amit Thaker

Election results

=2022=

{{Election box begin| title=Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2022: Vejalpur{{Cite web |date=17 January 2023 |title=Gujarat General Legislative Election 2022|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/14750-gujarat-general-legislative-election-2022/|website=Election Commission of India}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|candidate = Amit Thaker

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 128049

|percentage = 56.18

|change = +2.75

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Rajendra Patel (Rajubhai Makarba)

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 68398

|percentage = 30.01

|change = -13.18

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Kalpesh Patel (Bholabhai)

|party = Aam Aadmi Party

|votes = 22194

|percentage = 9.74

|change = New

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Zainab Shaikh

|party = All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen

|votes = 2313

|percentage = 1.01

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Parthiv Vijaykumar Dave

|party = Right to Recall Party

|votes = 132

|percentage = 0.06

|change = New

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = None of the Above

|party = NOTA

|votes = 2890

|percentage = 1.27

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 59,651

|percentage = 26.17

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 227943

|percentage =

|change =

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = {{formatnum:380533}}

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser = Indian National Congress

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

=2017=

{{Election box begin | title=Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Vejalpur{{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 = Kishor Babulal Chauhan

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 1,17,748

|percentage = 53.43

|change = -4.73

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Mihirbhai Shah

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 95,181

|percentage = 43.19

|change = +6.03

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 22,567

|percentage = 10.24

|change = -10.76

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 2,20,397

|percentage = 67.40

|change = -3.98

}}

{{Election box registered electors

|reg. electors = {{formatnum:326977}}

|ref=

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

=2012=

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Kishor Babulal Chauhan

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|votes = 1,13,507

|percentage = 58.16

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|candidate = Murjtujakhan Akbarkhan Pathan

|party = Indian National Congress

|votes = 72,522

|percentage = 37.16

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 40,985

|percentage = 21.00

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 1,95,162

|percentage = 71.38

|change =

}}

{{Election box new seat win|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|swing =

}}

{{Election box end}}

See also

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