Bhartiya Janta Party's Kantilal Shivlal Amrutiya has won the Morbi assembly seat against Congress' Jayantilal Patel, as per Election Commission data. The former MLA who had won the seat in 2012 too, rode the BJP wave to win comfortably by a margin of over 62,000 votes.

The constituency has been an important battleground after a recent bridge collapse claimed the lives of 135 people.

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Morbi is an assembly constituency in the Morbi district in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Former MLA Amrutiya Kantilal Shivlal contested on the BJP ticket.

The Morbi legislative assembly constituency went to the polls on December 1, 2022.

The assembly seat is reserved for the general category and falls in the Kachchh Lok Sabha constituency.

In the December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Morbi was won by Brijesh Merja of the Congress party. He defeated Bharatiya Janata Patry's Amrutiya Kantilal Shivlal.

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Before that, in the 2012 Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, the seat was held by BJP's Amrutiya Kantilal Shivlal.

In the 2017 assembly polls, Shivlal garnered 89,396 votes, securing 48.44 percent of the vote share and winning the seat by a margin of 3,419 votes. In percentage terms, the victory margin was 1.86 percent.

The total number of voters in the Morbi constituency stands at 2,86,840, with 1,48,780 male and 1,38,057 female voters.

The Morbi constituency has a literacy level of 80.96 percent.

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(Edited by : Ayushi Agarwal)

First Published:Dec 7, 2022 10:05 PM IST