Vejalpur Assembly constituency

Vejalpur
Constituency No. 42 for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country India
Region Western India
State Gujarat
District Ahmedabad
LS constituency Gandhinagar
Total electors 388,893
Reservation None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Amit Thaker
Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year 2022

Vejalpur is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Ahmedabad district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments,

  1. Ahmedabad City Taluka (Part) Villages – Vastrapur, Maktampur, Gyaspur, Vejalpur (M), Makarba (CT), Sarkhej-Okaf (M), Jodhpur (M).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member Political Party
2012 Kishor Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party
2017
2022 Amit Thaker

Election results

2022

Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2022: Vejalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Amit Thaker 128,049 56.18 +2.75
INC Rajendra Patel (Rajubhai Makarba) 68398 30.01 -13.18
AAP Kalpesh Patel (Bholabhai) 22194 9.74 New
AIMIM Zainab Shaikh 2313 1.01
RRP Parthiv Vijaykumar Dave 132 0.06 New
NOTA None of the Above 2890 1.27
Majority 26.17
Turnout 227943
Registered electors 380,533
BJP hold Swing

2017

Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Vejalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Kishor Babulal Chauhan 117,748 53.43 -4.73
INC Mihirbhai Shah 95,181 43.19 +6.03
Majority 22,567 10.24 -10.76
Turnout 2,20,397 67.40 -3.98
Registered electors 326,977
BJP hold Swing

2012

2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Vejalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Kishor Babulal Chauhan 1,13,507 58.16
INC Murjtujakhan Akbarkhan Pathan 72,522 37.16
Majority 40,985 21.00
Turnout 1,95,162 71.38
BJP win (new seat)

See also