Vinendrasinh Dilipsinh Zala of BJP has won in Himmatnagar constituency by 8860 votes, according to data by the Election Commission of India.

In initial trends the battle was a close contest between Zala and INC's candidate Kamleshkumar Jayantibhai Patel. In the end Zala won by getting 98792 votes, meanwhile Patel got 89932 votes.

As per latest trends Zala is leading with 70,565 votes while Patel is at 68488 votes.

Himmatnagar is an assembly constituency in the Sabarkantha district in the North Gujarat region of Gujarat.

The Himmatnagar legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 5, 2022. The assembly seat is reserved for the general category.

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In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Himmatnagar was won by Rajendrasinh Ranjitsinh Chavda (Rajubhai Chavda) of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).

Rajendrasinh Ranjitsinh Chavda (Rajubhai Chavda) defeated Indian National Congress (INC) party's Kamleshkumar Jayantibhai Patel.

Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by the INC's Patel Chavda Rajendrasinh Ranjitsinh (Rajubhai Chavda).

In the 2017 assembly polls, Rajendrasinh Ranjitsinh Chavda (Rajubhai Chavda garnered 94,340 votes, securing 47.43 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 1,712 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 0.88 percent.

The dominant community in the Himmatnagar constituency is the Other Backward Class, while the Scheduled Class population in the Himmatnagar constituency is 11.04 percent. In the 2022 elections, this seat recorded a voter turnout of 70.89 percent which is down 6.48 percent compared to the 2017 elections.

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First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:29 PM IST