Gandhinagar Lok Sabha Constituency of Gujarat: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Gandhinagar Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in the western state of Gujarat and cast its vote in the 2019 election on April 23. The results would be declared on May 23.

Gandhinagar registered 65.57 percent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 0.47 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1945149 while the total voter turnout is 1275394. While in 2014, the constituency registered 65.10 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1733077 while the total voter's turnout was 1128297.

Amit Shah of Bharatiya Janata Party, Dr. CJ Chavda of Indian National Congress and Jayendra Karshanbhai Rathod of Bahujan Samaj Party are a few prominent candidates contesting for general election 2019 from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency of Gujarat.

Gandhinagar constituency covers seven assembly segments – Gandhinagar Uttar, Kalol, Sanand, Ghatlodiya, Vejalpur, Naranpura and Sabarmati.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency of Gujarat.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	AMIT SHAH	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Dr. C. J. CHAVDA	Indian National Congress
3	JAYENDRA KARSHANBHAI RATHOD	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	CHANDRAPAL HASMUKH BAVJIBHAI	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
5	NARENDRABHAI REVASHANKAR TRIVEDI	Jan Satya Path Party
6	PATEL AMARISH JASVANTLAL (C. A.)	Hindusthan Nirman Dal
7	BHOGILAL J. RATHOD (ADVOCATE)	Bahujan Mukti Party
8	MAKVANA PRAKASHBHAI BAHECHARJI (HITUBHA)	Garvi Gujarat Party
9	RAHUL CHIMANBHAI MEHTA	Right to Recall Party
10	Dr. N. T. SENGAL	Bahujan Suraksha Dal
11	KHODABHAI LALAJIBHAI DESAI	Independent
12	PATHAN FIROZKHAN SAEEDKHAN	Independent
13	MAKWANA ANILKUMAR SOMABHAI	Independent
14	MAHENDRABHAI SOMABHAI PATNI	Independent
15	RATHOD VALJIBHAI BECHARBHAI	Independent
16	VORA ALIMAHMAD RAJABHAI	Independent
17	SHEKH SHAHINBANU MOLANA MUSTAK	Independent

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, veteran leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – Lal Krishna Advani roared to victory by winning with a huge margin of over 4.80 lakh votes. He has won five consecutive elections from Gandhinagar constituency since 1998.

Advani had defeated Kiritbhai Ishvarbhai Patel of the Indian National Congress (INC). Advani had secured 773539 votes while Patel got 290418 votes.