Gujarat Lok Sabha elections 2024: Schedule, dates, phase, seats, candidates - All you need to know
Gujarat elections
Gujarat Lok Sabha elections 2024 Date, Full Schedule:Lok Sabha elections, in which the Indian voters will choose 543 members of parliament for Lok Sabha's 18th five-year tenure, has started on Friday (Apr 19).
Of these, 26 members will be elected by around 50 million voters of western India's Gujarat, home state to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The voting in Gujarat is taking place on May 7 in the third phase ofelections.
BJP's principal challengers in the state are Congress and Aam Aadmi Party.
Gujarat 26 Lok Sabha seats: Significance
The state boasts of the largest coastline in India, and its identity is often compounded within the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi— who was born in the Porbandar town of state in 1869— and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, whose acumen to bring princely states to accede to India after the departure of British in 1947 is widely hailed.
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PM Modi served as chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014, after which— in May 2014— he was elected Prime Minister by Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance's 336 newly elected Lok Sabha members.
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The BJP won all 26 Lok Sabha seats of Gujarat in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019.
Not just that, during the state assembly elections in December 2022, the BJP won 156 of 182 seats in what became the entrance for a seventh term in power for the party.
Gujarat Lok Sabha Elections: Important Dates
Gazette Notification: April 12
Last date of nominations: April 19
Voting Date: May 7 (Third phase of voting)
Counting of votes: June 4
Gujarat Lok Sabha constituencies: Full List and current MPs
Ahmedabad East: Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel (BJP)
Ahmedabad West: Kirit Premjibhai Solanki (BJP)
Amreli: Naranbhai Kachhadia (BJP)
Anand: Mitesh Rameshbhai Patel (BJP)
Banaskantha: Parbatbhai Patel (BJP)
Bardoli: Parbhubhai Vasava (BJP)
Bharuch: Mansukhbhai Vasava (BJP)
Bhavnagar: Bharatiben Shiyal (BJP)
Chhota Udaipur: Gitaben Rathva (BJP)
Dahod:Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor (BJP)
Gandhinagar: Amit Shah (BJP)
Jamnagar:Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam (BJP)
Junagadh:Rajeshbhai Naranbhai Chudasama (BJP)
Kachch:Vinod Chavda (BJP)
Kheda: Devusingh Chauhan (BJP)
Mahesana: Shardaben Patel (BJP)
Navsari: C.R. Patil (BJP)
Panchmahal:Ratansinh Rathod (BJP)
Patan:Bharatsinhji Dabhi Thakor (BJP)
Porbandar:Rameshbhai Dhaduk (BJP)
Rajkot:Mohan Kundariya (BJP)
Sabarkantha:Dipsinh Shankarsinh Rathod (BJP)
Surat:Darshana Jardosh (BJP)
Surendranagar:Mahendra Munjapara (BJP)
Vadodara:Ranjanben Bhatt (BJP)
Valsad:K C Patel (BJP)
Gujarat Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Top contenders
The state is considered a staunch bastion for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. But in recent years, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party has made significant inroads.
As part of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), both AAP and the Congress are contesting polls in Gujarat together.