BJP ahead in 182 Gujarat seats
- India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party swept all 15 Gujarat municipal corporations in results declared Tuesday after April 26 voting, replacing earlier partial leads. - The party won about 6,472 of more than 9,900 local-body seats, including over 730 uncontested, and took 33 of 34 district panchayats. - The sweep strengthens the BJP before Gujarat’s 2027 assembly election. (hindustantimes.com)
The Bharatiya Janata Party did not just lead in Gujarat’s local polls. It swept all 15 municipal corporations after counting on Tuesday, April 28. (indianexpress.com) (hindustantimes.com) The elections covered 15 municipal corporations, 84 municipalities, 34 district panchayats and 260 taluka panchayats, with polling held on April 26. More than 4.18 crore voters were eligible. (hindustantimes.com) (news18.com) By the end of counting, the BJP had won about 6,472 of more than 9,900 seats across local bodies, including more than 730 seats without a contest. It also won 33 of Gujarat’s 34 district panchayats. (hindustantimes.com) (news18.com) In the municipal corporations, the BJP ran up lopsided margins in the biggest cities and newer civic bodies. In Ahmedabad it won 160 of 192 seats, and in Surat it won 115 of 120. (indianexpress.com) The party also posted clean sweeps in Morbi and Porbandar, winning all 52 seats in each corporation. Those results underlined how far the race had moved beyond the early headline that the BJP was merely “ahead” in 182 seats. (indianexpress.com) Congress finished a distant second in much of the state’s urban map, while the Aam Aadmi Party held on in pockets rather than repeating its 2021 Surat surge. In Surat this time, AAP won 4 seats and Congress won 1. (indianexpress.com) AAP did carve out a rural foothold. News18 reported that it won Narmada district panchayat and 12 taluka panchayats, while Indian Express reported AAP sweeps in Dediapada, Sagbara and Chikhda taluka panchayats in the tribal belt. (news18.com) (indianexpress.com) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on X that “the bond between Gujarat and the BJP gets even stronger,” and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel called it another endorsement of the party’s development politics. (hindustantimes.com) (indianexpress.com) The scale matters because Gujarat votes for its state assembly in late 2027, and the BJP has been in power in the state since 1998. The party also improved on its 2021 local-body haul, when it won all six corporations that existed then and 6,236 of 8,470 seats. (hindustantimes.com) The cleaner takeaway from Tuesday is that the early-count number in the headline was only a snapshot. The final result was broader: a statewide BJP sweep of Gujarat’s urban civic map, with limited but visible opposition pockets in tribal and rural bodies. (indianexpress.com) (news18.com)
