Gandhinagar: BJP leader and Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya won Gujarat's Porbandar Lok Sabha seat by defeating his nearest Congress rival Lalit Vasoya by a margin of 3.83 lakh votes, the Election Commission said on Tuesday.
According to the results declared by the ECI after the counting of votes on all seats was over, Mandaviya got 6,33,118 lakh votes, while Vasoya got 2,49,758 lakh votes.
Voting took place on 25 out of 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat in the third phase on 7 May.
This was Mandaviya's first Lok Sabha election. Before being nominated as a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, he had won as MLA from Palitana assembly seat in Bhavnagar district in 2002.
The Congress had fielded its former MLA Lalit Vasoya, who like Mandaviya is from the Patidar community. Vasoya won from Dhoraji seat in Rajkot district in 2017 but lost to the BJP candidate in 2022.
According to the results declared by the ECI after the counting of votes on all seats was over, Mandaviya got 6,33,118 lakh votes, while Vasoya got 2,49,758 lakh votes.
Voting took place on 25 out of 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat in the third phase on 7 May.
This was Mandaviya's first Lok Sabha election. Before being nominated as a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, he had won as MLA from Palitana assembly seat in Bhavnagar district in 2002.
The Congress had fielded its former MLA Lalit Vasoya, who like Mandaviya is from the Patidar community. Vasoya won from Dhoraji seat in Rajkot district in 2017 but lost to the BJP candidate in 2022.
