Mumbai: Parliamentary elections are scheduled to happen within the state subsequent 12 months, and the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) has made a robust begin in Gujarat, profitable all 15 native our bodies that went to polls on Sunday. The native physique rely continues to be in progress.
In accordance with official statistics, the BJP received greater than 50 per cent of the entire seats in 15 native our bodies.
Round 9,200 seats in 15 municipal companies, 84 municipal companies, 34 district panchayats and 260 taluka panchayats in Gujarat went to polls on Sunday.
In accordance with the State Election Fee, Voter turnout was 55.1 per cent in municipal companies, 65.5 per cent in municipal companies, 66.6 per cent in district panchayats and 67.2 per cent in taluka panchayats.
This time, voting was additionally held for 9 newly fashioned companies – Navsari, Gandhidham, Morbi, Vapi, Anand, Nadiad, Mehsana, Porbandar and Surendranagar. The identical goes for current firms in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar.
In Ahmedabad, the BJP had received a landslide victory profitable 160 out of 192 seats by 6pm on Tuesday, whereas the Congress had received 32 seats.
The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering additionally recorded a landslide victory in Rajkot, profitable 65 of the 72 seats. The Congress, however, received by 7.
“Rajkot’s vibrant saffron hue…We sincerely thank the residents for delivering a significant victory to the Rajkot Municipal Company and prolong our warmest needs to all the employees,” the Gujarat state BJP wrote to X.
Saffron shade of Rangira Rajkot…
I wish to thank the residents and prolong my heartfelt congratulations to all the employees of Rajkot Municipal Company for his or her nice victory.#சில்லு_லும்_ஜிட்டு_விக்கு pic.twitter.com/Y3wafQyL6c
— BJP Gujarat (@BJP4Gujarat) April 28, 2026
“The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering has secured large in style help in these native physique polls. The triple-engine sarkar has labored nicely. The individuals of Gujarat have been lending help to developmental politics for the final three many years. That is a solution to the unfavorable politics of Congress and AAP,” Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Social gathering spokesperson Dr Anil Patel instructed ThePrint. He additional added, “We’re assured that we are going to obtain extra public help within the coming days. Individuals of Gujarat are peace-loving and development-minded, so many individuals are supporting us. We are going to work more durable within the coming days.”
The BJP has emerged as a robust pressure in rural Gujarat, controlling two-thirds of the seats by 6 p.m. In panchayat districts, the get together received almost 600 seats out of simply over 1,000 seats, whereas the Congress secured over 75 seats.
In 260 taluka panchayats with a complete of 5,234 seats, the BJP had received 2,397 seats as of 6 pm. The Congress secured 591 seats whereas others claimed 329 seats.
The silver lining for the Congress was that it received the Surat Municipal Company ward, which the AAP had received by a landslide final time. The final Congress went clean right here in 2021, but it surely additionally received in Dabhoi metropolis, a stronghold of the BJP.
In Ahmedabad, the Congress received 24 to 32 seats. In Rajkot, the variety of seats has elevated to seven from the earlier 4.
Congress spokesperson Parthiv Raj instructed ThePrint that though he was not glad with the outcomes, the get together’s efficiency has improved in comparison with 2021.
“We’re enhancing and we’re going to work more durable to unravel individuals’s issues. Democracy is being killed, however we’re preventing it and making an attempt to put it aside. I’m proud to say that amongst 9,000 unusual candidates, our candidates weren’t pressured by anybody and weren’t afraid of anybody, however they fought the nice struggle,” he mentioned.
For AAP, efficiency has not been encouraging. After rising as a robust contender for opponents in 2021, AAP was unable to recreate the magic.
The most important setback got here in Surat Municipal Company, which received 27 seats in 2021 and emerged as the principle opposition get together. Nonetheless, this time, the get together received solely 4 seats. In 2021, it succeeded in gaining 14% of the entire votes in native physique polls, nearly all of which got here from the parliament.
ThePrint reached out to AAP MLA Chaitar Vasava through telephone and textual content message for remark, however didn’t obtain a response by the point of publication.
(Edited by Amrutanshu Arora)
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