Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Mahesana

Jayshreeben Kanubha Patel won the 2014 Lok Sabha election in 2014 against the Congress party’s Jivabhai Ambalal Patel in the general seat.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Jayshreeben Kanubha Patel is the sitting member of Parliament from Mahesana Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat.

Mumbai, India - Oct. 8, 2014 : Election Commission staff seals the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) at 181 Mahim Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency election office in D'Silva School, Dadar, Mumbai, India on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, days ahead of the upcoming ASSEMBLY (VIDHAN SABHA) ELECTIONS on October 15, 2014. (Photo by Kalpak Pathak / Hindustan Times)(Hindustan Times)

Jayshreeben Kanubha Patel won the 2014 Lok Sabha election in 2014 against the Congress party’s Jivabhai Ambalal Patel in the general seat. Jayshreeben had won the seat in the 2009 general polls as well.

Mahesana constituency includes seven assembly segments – Unjha, Visnagar, Bechraji, Kadi, Mahesana, Vijapur and Mansa.

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Here’s all you need to know about Mahesana:

State: Gujarat

Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Mahesana

Date of voting: April 23

2019 candidates: AJ Patel of (Congress) and Shardaben Anilbhai Patel (BJP), Chauhan Prahladbhai Natthubhai (BSP)

Sitting MP, Party: Jayshreeben Kanubha Patel, BJP

Winning margin in 2014: 208,891

Runner up name, party: Jivabhai Ambalal Patel, Congress

Number of voters in 2014: 1,004,258

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 67.03%

Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,621

Number of women voters: 720,398