ELECTIONS IN GUJARAT – 2014 RESULTS

 

Elections in Gujarat 2014

Gujarat is a state situated on the western part of India. It was formed in the year 1960. Earlier it was a part of the state called Bombay which was later divided into Maharashtra and Gujarat. The capital of Gujarat is Gandhinagar. The general elections in Gujarat will be held on 30th April, 2014.
 

Gujarat (GJ) Civic Body Election Results 2015

 

Municipal Corporation/ District/Block Panchayats	BJP Won	INC Won	Others
Ahmedabad [Total : 192 Councillor seats in 48 wards]	142	49	1
Rajkot [Total : 72 seats in 18 wards]	38	34	-
Surat [Total : 116 Councillor seats in 29 wards]	80	36	-
Vadodara [Total : 76 seats in 19 wards]	58	14	4
Jamnagar [Total : 64 seats in 16 wards]	38	24	2
Bhavnagar [Total : 52 seats in 13 wards]	34	18	-
31 District Panchayat [Total 988 Seats]	367	594	25
230 Taluka or Block Panchayats [Total 4,778 Seats]	1914	2543	270
56 Municipalities [ Total 2088 Seats ]	1196	671	205

 

Gujarat Bye Elections 2014

 

Constituency	status	candidate name	party	Votes
Anand	Winner	Rohit Patel (Milcent)	BJP	75850
Deesa	Winner	Govabhai Hamirabhai Rabari	INC	73962
Khambhalia	Winner	Ahir Meraman Markhibhai	INC	66410
Limkheda	Winner	Bhuriya Vichhiyabhai Jokhnabhai	BJP	66057
Mangrol	Winner	Vaja Babubhai Kalabhai	INC	66498
Maninagar	Winner	Patel Sureshbhai Dhanjibhai (Suresh Patel)	BJP	67689
Matar	Winner	Kesrisinh Jesangbhai Solanki	BJP	59576
Rajkot West	Winner	Vijaykumar Ramniklal Rupani	BJP	81092
Talaja	Winner	Gohil Shivabhai Jerambhai	BJP	50290
Tankara	Winner	Metaliya Bavanjibhai Hansrajbhai	BJP	65833

 

Gujarat General Elections – 2014

Here is the table showing the schedule of different activities that will be carried out during the election process.

Phase 7
No of PCs going to poll 26
Issue of Notification	02 Apr 14 (Wed)
Last Date for filing Nominations	09 Apr 14 (Wed)
Scrutiny of Nominations	10 Apr 14 (Thu)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	12 Apr 14 (Sat)
Date of Poll	30 Apr 14 (Wed)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be completed	28 May 14 (Wed)

 

List of parliamentary constituencies in Gujarat

PC. No.	PC. Name	PC Type	PC. No.	PC. Name	PC Type
1	Kutch	(SC)	14	Amreli	GEN
2	Banaskantha	GEN	15	Bhavnagar	GEN
3	Patan	GEN	16	Anand	GEN
4	Mehsana	GEN	17	Kheda	GEN
5	Sabarkantha	GEN	18	Panchmahal	GEN
6	Gandhinagar	GEN	19	Dahod	(ST)
7	Ahmedabad East	GEN	20	Vadodara	GEN
8	Ahmedabad West	(SC)	21	Chhota Udaipur	(ST)
9	Surendranagar	GEN	22	Bharuch	GEN
10	Rajkot	GEN	23	Bardoli	(ST)
11	Porbandar	GEN	24	Surat	GEN
12	Jamnagar	GEN	25	Navsari	GEN
13	Junagadh	GEN	26	Valsad	(ST)

 

Gujarat Elections

Gujarat has a unicameral Legislature with a single House – Legislative Assembly. Before the formation of Gujarat state and even after that, Gujarat was governed by Congress party. Congress lost its hold by losing the elections in 1995 against BJP. At that time Keshubhai Patel was the CM of Gujarat representing BJP. The official language of the state is Gujarati.

Political parties in Gujarat

Gujarat is under the influence of politics from both national and regional level.

The parties at the national level are:

• Bharatiya Janta party
• Indian National Congress
• Bahujan Samaj Party

Regional parties are:

• Bharatiya Rashtravadi Paksh
• Gujarat Adijati Vikas Paksh
• Gujarat State Janta Congress

 

State Legislative Assembly

There are 182 members in the Legislative Assembly of Gujarat. They are elected through elections. The term for these members is five years. The governor is the constitutional head of the state and is appointed by the President of India. The real power of governance is in the hands of the CM who is elected by the people.

List of chief Ministers of Gujarat

 

Sl. No	Name of Chief Ministers	From	To	Party Name
1	Narendra Modi	Dec 20, 2012	Present	BJP
2	Narendra Modi	Dec 23, 2007	Dec 20, 2012	BJP
3	Narendra Modi	Dec 22, 2002	Dec 22, 2007	BJP
4	Narendra Modi	Oct 7, 2001	Dec 22, 2002	BJP
5	Keshubhai Patel	Mar 4, 1998	Oct 6, 2001	BJP
6	Dilip Parikh	Oct 28, 1997	Mar 4, 1998	RJD
7	Shankersinh Vaghela	Oct 23, 1996	Oct 27, 1997	RJD
8	President’s rule	Sep 19, 1996	Oct 23, 1996
9	Suresh Mehta	Oct 21, 1995	Sep 19, 1996	BJP
10	Keshubhai Patel	Mar 14, 1995	Oct 21, 1995	BJP
11	Chhabildas Mehta	Feb 17, 1994	Mar 14, 1995	INC
12	Chimanbhai Patel	Oct 25, 1990	Feb 17, 1994	JD(G) + JD + INC
13	Chimanbhai Patel	Mar 4, 1990	Oct 25, 1990	JD(G) + JD + BJP
14	Madhav Singh Solanki	Dec 10, 1989	Mar 4, 1990	INC
15	Amarsinh Chaudhary	Jul 6, 1985	Dec 9, 1989	INC
16	Madhav Singh Solanki	Mar 11, 1985	Jul 6, 1985	INC
17	Madhav Singh Solanki	Jun 7, 1980	Mar 10, 1985	INC
18	President’s rule	Feb 17, 1980	Jun 7, 1980	JNP
19	Babubhai J. Patel	Apr 11, 1977	Feb 17, 1980	JNP
20	Madhav Singh Solanki	Dec 24, 1976	Apr 10, 1977	INC
21	President’s rule	Mar 12, 1976	Dec 24, 1976
22	Babubhai J. Patel	Jun 18, 1975	Mar 12, 1976	Janata Front (INC(O) + BJS+ BLD + SP)
23	President’s rule	Feb 9, 1974	Jun 18, 1975
24	Chimanbhai Patel	Jul 18, 1973	Feb 9, 1974	INC
25	Ghanshyam Oza	Mar 17, 1972	Jul 17, 1973	INC
26	President’s rule	May 12, 1971	Mar 17, 1972
27	Hitendra K Desai	Apr 7, 1971	May 12, 1971	INC
28	Hitendra K Desai	Apr 3, 1967	Apr 6, 1971	INC
29	Hitendra K Desai	Sep 20, 1965	Apr 3, 1967	INC
30	Balwantrai Mehta	Sep 19, 1963	Sep 20, 1965	INC
31	Jivraj Narayan Mehta	Mar 3, 1962	Sep 19, 1963	INC
32	Jivraj Narayan Mehta	May 1, 1960	Mar 3, 1962	INC

 

List of Governors of Gujarat

 

Sl. No	Name of Governor	From	To
1	Om Prakash Kohli	Jul 14, 2014	Present
1	Smt. Margaret Alva	Jul 06, 2014	Jul 14, 2014
2	Kamla Beniwal	Nov 27, 2009	Jul 06, 2014
3	S.C. Jamir	Jul 24, 2009	Nov 26, 2009
4	Nawal Kishore Sharma	Jul 24, 2004	Jul 24, 2009
5	Balram Jakhar	Jul 2, 2004	Jul 24, 2004
6	Kailashpati Mishra	May 7, 2003	Jul 2, 2004
7	Sunder Singh Bhandari	Mar 18, 1999	May 7, 2003
8	K.G. Balakrishnan	Jan 16, 1999	Mar 18, 1999
9	Anshuman Singh	Apr 25, 1998	Jan 16, 1999
10	Krishna Pal Singh	Mar 1, 1996	Apr 25, 1998
11	Naresh Chandra	Jul 1, 1995	Mar 1, 1996
12	Sarup Singh	Dec 21, 1990	Jul 1, 1995
13	Mahipal Shastri	May 2, 1990	Dec 21, 1990
14	Ram Krishna Trivedi	Feb 26, 1986	May 2, 1990
15	Braj Kumar Nehru	Apr 26, 1984	Feb 26, 1986
16	Kizhekethil Mathew Chandy	Aug 6, 1983	Apr 26, 1984
17	Sharda Mukherjee	Aug 14, 1978	Aug 6, 1983
18	Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham	Apr 4, 1973	Aug 14, 1978
19	P.N. Bhagwati	Mar 17, 1973	Apr 4, 1973
20	Shriman Narayan	Dec 26, 1967	Mar 17, 1973
21	P.N. Bhagwati	Dec 7, 1967	Dec 26, 1967
22	Nityanand Kanungo	Aug 1, 1965	Dec 7, 1967
23	Mehdi Nawaz Jung	May 1, 1960	Aug 1, 1965

 

Cabinet Ministers of Gujarat

 

Ministries	Name of Minsiter
Chief Minister	Anandiben Patel
Medical Education, Family Welfare, Roads and Buildings, Capital Project and Transport	Nitinbhai Patel
Social Justice and Empowerment (including Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC))	Ramanlal Vora
Energy and Petrochemicals, Mines and Minerals, Salt industries, Printing, Planning, Tourism, Civil aviation, Labour and employment	Saurabh Patel
Forest and Environment, Tribal Welfare, Law and Parliamentary Affairs	Ganpat Vasava
independent charge of Women and Child Welfare along with Higher and Technical Education	Vasuben Trivedi
Law, Judiciary, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs, Tourism, Religious and Pilgrimage Places, Coordination of NGOs, Non-Resident Gujaratis, and Protocol	Pradipsinh Jadeja
Home, Police Housing, Border Security, Civil Defence, Home Guards, Gram Rakshak Dal, Jail, Prohibition and Excise	Rajnikant Patel
Health, Family Welfare, Transport and Urban Housing Construction	Shankar Chaudhary

 

Members of Rajya Sabha from Gujarat

 

Name	Party	Term	Name	Party	Term
Shri Chunibhai Kanjibhai Gohel	Bharatiya Janata Party	10/04/2014 to 09/04/2020	Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani	Bharatiya Janata Party	19/08/2011 to 18/08/2017
Shri Arun Jaitley	Bharatiya Janata Party	03/04/2012 TO 02/04/2018	Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Bharatiya Janata Party	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018
Shri Madhusudan Mistry	Indian National Congress	10/04/2014 to 09/04/2020	Shri Dilipbhai Pandya	Bharatiya Janata Party	19/08/2011 to 18/08/2017
Shri Ahmed Patel	Indian National Congress	19/08/2011 to 18/08/2017	Shri Praveen Rashtrapal	Indian National Congress	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018
Shri Shambhuprasad Baldevdasji Tundiya	Bharatiya Janata Party	10/04/2014 to 09/04/2020	Shri Lal Sinh Vadodia	Bharatiya Janata Party	10/04/2014 to 09/04/2020
Shri Shankarbhai N. Vegad	Bharatiya Janata Party	03/04/2012 to 02/04/2018