Ahmedabad East Lok Sabha Constituency: Candidate list for 2019 LS Poll, past results, all updates

 

Ahmedabad East is one of the 26 Lok Sabha Constituencies going to poll on April 23 in the state of Gujarat.

It consists of the following constituencies - Dahegam, Gandhinagar Dakshin, Vatva, Nikol, Naroda, Thakkarbapa Nagar and Bapunagar. This constituency was created in 2008.

The Ahmedabad East seat’s sitting MP is popular Bollywood actor Paresh Rawal but he was dropped this year and instead put up Amraiwadi MLA Hasmukh S Patel who will take on MLA GItaben Patel form Congress.

 

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Gitaben Patel	Indian National Congress
2	Patel Hasmukhbhai Somabhai	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Vaghela Ganeshbhai Narsinhbhai	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Kadri Mohammad Sabir	Ambedkar National Congress
5	Chauhan Narendrasinh Makhatulsinh	Yuva Jan Jagriti Party
6	Thakur Jitendrasinh Surendrasinh	Loktantrik Rashrtavadi Party
7	Bhatt Sunilkumar Narendrabhai	Right to Recall Party
8	Manoj Premchand Gupta	Sarvodaya Bharat Party
9	Mishra Arjun Ramshankar	Jan Sangharsh Virat Party
10	Mundra Anilkumar	Lok Gathbandhan Party
11	Rajesh Maurya	Prajatantra Aadhar Party
12	Virat Pradip Shah	Jan Satya Path Party
13	Vekariya Rushi Bharatbhai (Patel)	Hindusthan Nirman Dal
14	Samirbhai Rajeshkumar Upadhyay	Manvadhikar National Party
15	Dr. Hitesh Mahendrabhai	Nirbhay Bharteey Party
16	Atulbhai Nanubhai Kathiriya	Independent
17	Chauhan Kiritbhai	Independent
18	Jayswal Nareshkumar Babulal (Raju Mataji)	Independent
19	Devda Dasharath Misarilal	Independent
20	Pareshkumar Nanubhai Mulani	Independent
21	Bharvad Saileshkumar Kalidas	Independent
22	Mahesh Prabhudas Ahuja	Independent
23	Mishra Rajkumar Malekchand	Independent
24	Minaxiben Rakeshkumar Solanki	Independent
25	Sharma Brijesh Kumar Ujagarlal	Independent
26	Sheikh Salmabanu Mohammad Salim	Independent

 

Past results

Paresh Rawal had beaten Patel Himmatsingh Prahladsingh in 2014.  BJP’s Harin Pathak had done the same to Babaria Dipakbhai Ratilal in 2009. The last time Congress won this seat was in 1984 when he beat Haroobhai Mehta.

 

 

The battle for Gujarat

Gujarat is a prestige battle for BJP after being cut down to size in the assembly elections in 2017 by a resurgent Congress. It’s Amit Shah and Narendra Modi’s home state, and all eyes will be on Shah after PM Modi declined to contest from Vadodara as he had done in 2014.

The 26 constituencies going to poll in Gujarat are Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Amreli, Anand, Banaskantha, Bardoli, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Chhota Uaipur, Dahod, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Kachchh, Kheda, Mahesana, Navsari, Panchmahal, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot, Sabarkantha, Surat, Surendranagar, Vadodara and Valsad

 

 

A total of 371 candidates are in the fray for the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, all of which will go to polls in a single phase on April 23.
 

The maximum number of candidates, 31, are contesting from Surendranagar, followed by 28 in Jamnagar, 26 in Ahmedabad East and 25 in Navsari, it said.

Panchmahal, with six candidates, Kheda and Dahod with seven each, Chhota Udepur with eight and Valsad with nine candidates are the ones with the lowest number of contestants.

While Gujarat traditionally has seen straight fights between the BJP and the Congress, several smaller parties too are in the running this time. All 26 seats from the state were won by the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. It has dropped 10 sitting MPs for the April-May general polls.

The seats where sitting BJP MPs have been replaced are Banaskantha, Patan, Mehsana, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad East, Surendranagar, Porbandar, Anand, Panchmahal and Chhota Udepur.

The newly formed Hindusthan Nirman Dal of former VHP leader Pravin Togadia has also fielded its candidate, Amrish Patel, from the Gandhinagar seat.

Polling in all 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state will be held on April 23. Counting of votes will take place on May 23.