Rajkot West Assembly constituency

Legislative Assembly constituency in Gujarat State, India

Rajkot West
Constituency for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Gujarat
District	Rajkot
LS constituency	Rajkot
Established	2008
Total electors	354,378^[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dr. Darshita Shah
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022

Rajkot West is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.^[2]^[3] It is part of Rajkot district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation. Prior to that some areas under it were called 'Rajkot II' seat. Its current MLA was Gujarat's Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. It is a segment of Rajkot Lok Sabha constituency.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments^[4]

Rajkot Taluka (Part) – Rajkot Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No. – 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24.

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Election	Member
1967	M. P. Jadeja	Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1972	Pradummansinh Jadeja
1975	Arvindbhai Maniyar
1980	Manibhai Ranpara	Bharatiya Janata Party
1985	Vajubhai Vala
1990
1995
1998
February 2002 ^ ^[5]^[6]	Narendra Modi (by-poll)
2002	Vajubhai Vala
2007	Vajubhai Vala
Major boundary changes (constituency name changed from Rajkot II to Rajkot West)
2012	Vajubhai Vala (Appointed Governor in 2014)	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014 ^	Vijay Rupani (by-poll after Vala was appointed Governor; Rupani became CM in 2016)
2017	Vijay Rupani^[7]
2022	Darshita Shah^[8]

Election results

2022

Gujarat Assembly election, 2022: Rajkot West Assembly constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Dr. Darshita Paras Shah	138687	67.98
	INC	Kalariya Mansukhbhai Jadavbhai	32712	16.03
	AAP	Dineshkumar Mohanbhai Joshi	26319	12.9
	NOTA	None of the above	3419	1.68
Majority				51.95
Turnout
Registered electors			350,580	^[9]
	BJP hold		Swing

2017

Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Rajkot West^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vijay Rupani	131,586	60.67	+4.47
	INC	Indranil Rajguru	77,831	35.89	-3.86
	BSP	Vijaybhai Somabhai Parmar	1,198	0.55	+0.55
	SHS	Ketan Mansukhbhai Chandarana	578	0.27	+0.27
	IND	Rajendrakumar Shamjibhai Chauhan	509	0.23	+0.23
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,309	1.53	-0.63
Majority			53,755	24.78	+8.33
Turnout			2,16,883	68.48	+19.05
	BJP hold		Swing	+4.47

2014 Bypoll

By-election, 2014: Rajkot West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vijaybhai Ramniklalbhai Rupani	81,092	56.20	+2.03
	INC	Jayantibhai Kalaria	57,352	39.75	+0.55
	NCP	Bhavesh Lokhil	1,027	0.71	+0.71
	IND	Tejasbhai Anilbhai Trivedi	514	0.36	+0.36
	IND	Imranbhai Ramjanbhai Kachara	373	0.26	+0.26
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,110	2.16	+2.16
Majority			23,740	16.45	+1.48
Turnout			1,44,282	49.43	-14.15
	BJP hold		Swing	+2.03

2012

2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Rajkot West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala	90,405	54.17
	INC	Atul Rasikbhai Rajani	65,427	39.20
	GPP	Jaydeep Jayantibhai Makadia	5,194	3.11
	IND.	Sandipbhai Hargovindbhai Jivarajani	1,784	1.07
	BSP	Pravinbhai Damjibhai Sanchaniya	1,645	0.99
Majority			24,978	14.97
Turnout			1,66,891	63.58
	BJP hold		Swing

2007

Vajubhai Vala M BJP 48215
Nathwani Kashmira Bakulbhai F INC 38359

February 2002 by-poll

Gujarat Legislative Assembly By Election, 2002: Rajkot II
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Narendra Modi	45298	57.32
	INC	Ashwinbhai Narbheshankar Mehta	30570	38.68
	IND.	Makwana Bharatbhai Bhikhalal	748	0.95
Turnout			79028
	BJP hold		Swing

1998 Vidhan Sabha

Vajubhai Roodabhai Vala (BJP) : 43,034 votes ^[10]
Kashmeeraben Bakulbhai Nathvanee F AIRJP : 14316

1990 Vidhan Sabha

Vajubhai Vala (BJP) : 31,864 votes
Sudhir Joshi M INC : 16388

References

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