News Gujarat Porbandar Election Results 2024: BJP's Mansukh Mandaviya takes lead in early trends

Porbandar Election Results 2024: BJP's Mansukh Mandaviya takes lead in early trends

Porbandar Election Results 2024: Stay tuned to this space and get all the latest updates about the leading and trailing candidates from Porbandar Lok Sabha constituency, as the counting of votes is underway.

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Porbandar Election Results 2024: The counting for the 18th Lok Sabha Elections is currently underway. Porbandar is among one of the key constituencies in this General Election from Gujarat. In the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, there is a head-to-head contest between Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mansukh Mandaviya, and prominent state Congress leader Lalit Vasoya. Notably, the Congress party previously held sway over this assembly seat until their former MLA, Arjun Modhwadia, defected to the opposing faction. As per the latest trends, BJP's Mansukh Mandaviya has taken the lead.  

Porbandar Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Date of polls

The voting in the Porbandar Lok Sabha constituency seat was held on May 7 in the third phase along with 92 other seats across 11 states and Union Territories. This includes 25 seats in Gujarat (BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal won the Surat Lok Sabha seat unopposed), 14 in Karnataka, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, 9 in Madhya Pradesh, 7 in Chhattisgarh, 5 in Bihar, 4 each in West Bengal and Assam, 2 each in Goa and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu.

Porbandar Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voter turnout

As per the Election Commission of India (ECI) website, the total voter turnout in Porbandar Lok Sabha Elections 2024 stood at 51.83 per cent. The website has listed all the final data from Polling Stations (PS), excluding the data on postal ballot voting.

Assembly Constituency Name Voter Turnout
Dhoraji  51.89 %
Gondal 52.19 %
Jetpur 51.54 %
Keshod 47.03 %
Kutiyana 47.55 %
Manavadar 53.94 %
Porbandar 57.99 %

Porbandar Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Date of results

The result for Porbandar will be declared on June 4 along with the other 542 parliamentary constituencies of the country.

 

Porbandar Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Main parties and candidates

The main contest on the Porbandar Lok Sabha constituency seat is between BJP and the Congress party. Mansukh Mandaviya, making his debut in the general elections, steps into the fray as the replacement for Ramesh Dhaduk in this crucial constituency. Mandaviya's political journey includes serving as the Palitana MLA in 2002 and subsequently being elected twice to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in 2012 and 2018.

On the other hand, Lalit Vasoya is a seasoned Congress leader and former MLA from Dhoraji, an Assembly seat near Porbandar.

Porbandar Lok Sabha Elections 2024: What happened in 2014 and 2019?

In the 2019 Loksabha elections, Rameshbhai Lavjibhai Dhaduk of BJP won with a margin of 2,28,128 votes. The runner-up was Congress leader Lalit Vasoya. This constituency witnessed 56.79 per cent voter turnout in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

In 2014, BJP's Vitthalbhai Hansrajbhai Radadiya clinched over 60 per cent vote share and won the seat against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Kandhalbhai Sarmanbhai Jadeja.