Gujarat result LIVE: BJP ahead in 105 seats, Modi unlikely to get 150

Gujarat election result live - The BJP is leading in 56 seats and the Congress in 50, according to official trends available for Gujarat Assembly polls after one-and-a-half hour of counting. As per the Election Commission trends available for 109 seats, the BJP is ahead in 56 seats, while the Congress candidates have a slight edge over their BJP opponents in 50 constituencies. The NCP, Bhartiya Tribal Party and an independent are leading in a seat each. Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP leader Vijay Rupani was trailing behind Congress candidate Indranil Rajyaguru from Rajkot West, as per the initial trends. Rajyaguru secured 1,258 votes while Rupani got 491 votes after the end of first round of counting, as per election officials at the counting centre.

The elections for 182-seat Assembly were held on December 9 and 14, after an acrimonious campaign, which was dominated by a face-off between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi. In the 2012 elections, the BJP had won 115 seats while the Congress emerged victorious on 61 seats. The BJP has been in power in the state since 1995, winning consecutive elections in the home state of Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) inched ahead of the ruling Congress on Monday as officials counted the votes polled in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections. Trends emerging from counting centres showed that BJP candidates were racing ahead in seven of the 68 seats while Congress nominees were in the lead in four.

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