Other States - Gujarat   

Margins of victory

AHMEDABAD DEC. 15. Amit Shah, BJP MLA from Sarkhej in Ahmedabad district, earned the distinction of winning by the highest margin of 1,58,036 votes as he retained the seat in the Gujarat Assembly polls.He defeated Himanshu Patel of the Congress, who contested his maiden Assembly poll.

Mr. Shah, who is also the Gujarat BJP vice-president, polled 2,88,327 votes as against Mr. Patel, who secured 1,30,291 votes.

The narrowest margin of victory was 73 votes, by which Congress's Shankar Varli defeated his BJP rival, Raman Patkar, in the Umbergaon (ST) constituency in South Gujarat.

Mr. Varli polled 47,350 votes as against 47,277 by Mr. Patkar. BJP lost the seat. — PTI

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Other States

News: Front Page | National | Southern States | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary |

Stories in this Section

• Muslims worried
• More women elected to Gujarat Assembly
• Margins of victory
• Prominent winners and losers

Copyright © 2002, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu