BJP headed for a landslide victory in Gujarat by-polls, leads in all 8 seats: Details of seats and vote-share
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In Gujarat, 8 seats are in play in the by-polls and BJP is leading in all 8 seats. In Gujarat, the bye-elections were necessitated on eight seats after the sitting Congress MLAs resigned ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls held in June this year. Five of them later joined the BJP and are contesting the bypolls on the saffron party ticket.
According to the Election Commission website, BJP is leading in all 8 seats that are in play during the by-elections.
According to the ECI website, BJP has so far got 53.71% votes and Congress has got 34.51% votes. NOTA, on the other hand, has got a 2.09% vote which is not considered terribly high in any election.
In 7 out of 8 seats, BJP has zoomed ahead decisively.
In Abdasa, the difference between the BJP and Congress votes is over 20,000 with BJP getting 46.04% of the votes.
