Post-Poll Vote Share Shows AAP-Cong Sum More Than BJP In Some Seats

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Post-Poll Vote Share Shows AAP-Cong Sum More Than BJP In Some Seats

| Updated: December 10, 2022 12:25

The Gujarat Assembly Elections results are being studied by poll strategists and party pundits. And the one glaring spotlight has been 15 seats in the Saurashtra-Kutch region where the combined figure of Cong-AAP votes are higher than votes polled by the winning candidates. 

AAP which emerged number two on 35 seats — nine reserved for Scheduled Tribes (STs) and two for Scheduled Castes (SCs) — also made inroads in several other ST reserved seats, splitting the vote dynamics.

In a majority of these seats, the AAP has affected Congress’s vote share and also that of BJP. In Saurashtra-Kutch, the Congress lost 28 of the 30 seats it won in 2017, 15 of which are seats where the combined figure of Congress and AAP votes was higher than the total number of votes polled by the winning BJP candidates. In three other seats — Keshod, Dwarka and Rajkot East — retained by the BJP, the cumulative count of Congress and AAP votes was higher than the respective tallies of the winning candidates.

The split of votes hurt Congress the most in Rapar in Kutch and Dasada in Surendranagar. In Rapar, Congress’s Bachubhai Aarethiya, husband of sitting Congress MLA Santok Aarethiya, lost to BJP’s Virendrasinh Jadeja by 577 votes even as AAP’s Amba Patel polled 2,434 votes, the third highest. In Dasada, sitting Congress MLA Naushad Solanki lost to BJP’s PK Parmar by 2,179 votes with AAP’s Arvind Solanki, garnering 10,324 votes and coming third.

Among these 18 seats where the combined votes of Congress and AAP was higher than that of the BJP, Congress candidates finished second in 10 seats while AAP emerged third. In the remaining eight seats, AAP candidates, including its chief ministerial face Isudan Gadvhi, finished second, while Congress nominees finished third.

According to Rutvik Makwana, outgoing Congress MLA from Chotila and working president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC): “AAP swayed traditional supporters of Congress by promising freebies. Dalits and the poor who traditionally vote for Congress were attracted by AAP’s guarantees of free electricity in particular. In my Assembly constituency, the AAP reached out to 35,000 families and distributed their guarantee cards promising free electricity, monthly cash allowances, etc… A large number of people fell for these promises and voted for the AAP.” Makwana lost to Shamji Chauhan of the BJP by 27,715 votes.

“BJP leaders persuaded maldharis who were unhappy with the government to vote for the AAP if they didn’t want to vote for BJP. This also hurt the Congress,” he added.

Some notable seats where AAP ate into vote share of Congress:

Limbdi

2017 – Congress 50% (won)

2022 Congress 18% (lost), AAP 32%

Jamnagar Rural

2017 – Congress 47.8% (won)

2022 – Congress 11.5% (lost), AAP 19%

Nizar (ST)

2017 – Congress 51.70% (won)

2022 – Congress 33% (lost), AAP 16 %

Vyara (ST)

2017 – Congress 55 % (won)

2022 – Congress 27% (lost), AAP 27%

Wankaner

2017 – Congress 40 % (won)

2022 – Congress 30 % (lost), AAP 26%

Jetpur (ST)

2017 – Congress 45 % (won)

2022 – Congress 18% (lost), AAP 26%

Jhalod (ST)

2017 – Congress 56 % (won)

2022 – Congress 13% (lost), AAP 29%

Junagadh

2017 – Congress 49 % (won)

2022 – Congress 22% (lost), AAP 17%

Kalavad (SC)

2017 – Congress 59 % (won)

2022 – Congress 18% (lost), AAP 33%

Khambhalia

2017 – Congress 50 % (won)

2022 – Congress 23% (lost), AAP 31%

Lathi

2017 – Congress 50 % (won)

2022 – Congress 27% (lost), AAP 20%

Jamnagar North

2017 – Congress 30 % (lost)

2022 – Congress 15% (lost), AAP 23%

Varachha Road

2017 – Congress 43 % (lost)

2022 – Congress 2.41% (lost), AAP 41%

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