Gandhinagar Lok Sabha Election 2024: List of party candidates, previous wins, margin, and constituency profile

Gujarat includes Gandhinagar as one of its Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. There are 26 parliamentary seats in the state. Seven Assembly segments make up the Gandhinagar seat: Gandhinagar North, Kalol, Sanand, Ghatlodia, Vejalpur, Naranpura, and Sabarmati. The constituency is open to all candidates and is not exclusive to members of Scheduled Tribes or Castes (SCs or STs).

The two major political parties in the constituency are the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Gandhinagar was won by BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani six times: in 1991, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the former prime minister, also had one victory in the seat in 1996 but left it after deciding to keep his Lucknow constituency.

Profile of the Gandhinagar Constituency’s Population
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, the Gandhinagar seat had 19,45,772 voters, according to figures from the Election Commission. 10,04,291 male voters and 9,41,434 female votes made up this total. The third gender included 47 votes. 8,637 ballots were cast in the constituency via mail. In Gandhinagar, there were 623 service voters in 2019 (584 males and 39 women).

There were 17,33,972 voters in the Gandhinagar constituency overall in 2014. 8,33,210 votes were female and 9,00,744 voters were male. In this constituency, the ‘others’ group had 18 voters. In the constituency, 8,358 postal ballots were cast. In Gandhinagar, there were 895 service voters in 2014 (723 males and 172 women).

Winners of Gandhinagar in 2014 and 2019 (Candidates and Parties)
Amit Shah, the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party, won the seat for the first time in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, with 5,57,014 votes. With 8,94,624 ballots cast, he had a 69.58% vote share. With 3,37,610 votes (26.26%), he beat Dr. CJ Chavda, a candidate for Congress. 12,84,090 legitimate votes were cast in total.

Lal Krishna Advani, a BJP veteran and former deputy prime minister, won the seat six times in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. With 7,73,539 votes cast, he had a 68.03% vote share. In the race for Congress, Kiritbhai Ishvarbhai Patel came in second place with 2,90,418 votes (25.54%). Patel lost to Advani by a total of 4,83,121 votes. 11,35,495 valid votes were cast in this constituency overall. Rituraj Mehta, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate, received 19,966 votes (1.76%) and finished third.

Previous Gandhinagar Winners
2009 Lal Krishna Advani (BJP)
2004 Lal Krishna Advani (BJP)
1999 Lal Krishna Advani (BJP)
BJP’s Lal Krishna Advani: 1998
Tal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP): 1996; Vijaybhai Patel (BJP): 1996 bypoll
BJP’s Lal Krishna Advani: 1991
BJP’s Shankersinh Vaghela: 1989
Congressman GI Patel: 1984
Congressman Amrit Mohanal Patel: 1980
Mavalankar Purushottam Ganesh (BLD): 1977
Not All of the Above, or NOTA
14,214 votes (1.11%) in the Gandhinagar constituency chose NOTA in 2019. 12,777 voters (or 1.12% of the total) in the Gandhinagar constituency chose NOTA in 2014.

Gandhinagar Voter Participation
12,84,090, or 65.99%, of eligible votes were cast in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

11,35,495 votes, or 65.49% of the total, were cast in favor of this Lok Sabha seat in 2014.

Dates of Gandhinagar Polls
In 2019, the Gandhinagar constituency held voting on April 23.

In 2014, Gandhinagar hosted the vote on April 30.

Dates of Gandhinagar Results
The outcome for 2019 was made public on May 23.

2014 saw the announcement of the outcome on May 16.

The number of polling places
The Gandhinagar seat has 1,975 voting places for the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

The Gandhinagar seat has 1,770 voting places for the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.