Live : Jamnagar Assembly Election 2023

The Jamnagar Lok sabha seat went to polls on April 23. A total of 16,56,006 voters from the constituency were eligible to cast their vote in the third phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Jamnagar constituency comprises Kalavad, Jamnagar Rural, Jamnagar North, Jamnagar South, Jamjodhpur, Khambhalia and Dwarka assembly seats.

While Congress has won the seat 8 times, BJP has been victorious in Jamnagar for 6 terms, including five consecutive terms.

While BJP plans to retain the seat by fielding the sitting MP Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam, the Congress has nominated Mulubhai Ranmalbhai Kandoriya for the Jamnagar seat.

In the 2014 election, BJP had won all 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat. In the Jamnagar seat, Congress lost by a margin of 1,75,289 votes. The voter turnout in the last election was 57.99 per cent.

6,588 votes were exercised under the NOTA option in 2014 general election.

28 candidates, which includes 25 independent contestants, are contesting for the Jamnagar seat this time.

Chandresh Patel Kordia was elected to the Lok Sabha five times consecutively from the Jamnagar seat. He was succeeded by Congress' Ahir Vikrambhai Arjanbhai Madam in 2004. This time, Sunil Jethalal Vaghela is the face of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Jamnagar.

The seven-phase Lok Sabha polls will be held till May 19. The poll results will be announced on May 23.