Sarkhej Assembly constituency

Sarkhej was one of the 182 assembly seats of Gujarat's Vidhan Sabha (Gujarat Legislative Assembly), from 1975^[2] until 2012. It was a largely urban seat representing there 1⁄15 of Ahmedabad. Its abolition, along with others and new replacement seats were drawn up in 2008, in readiness for the next election which proved to be in 2012.

Sarkhej
Former constituency for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Gujarat
District	Ahmedabad
Lok Sabha constituency	Gandhinagar
Established	1975
Abolished	2008
Total electors	1,025,615 (in 2007)[1]
Reservation	None

Members of Legislative Assembly

Sources:^[3][4]

Year	Member	Party
1975	Bhavansinh Chauhan		Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1980	Harishankar Pandya		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Nalin K. Patel		Indian National Congress
1990	Harishchandra Patel		Bharatiya Janata Party
1995
1997[a]	Amit Shah
1998
2002
2007[1]
2012	Seat abolished

1. By Poll

Election results

2007

2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Sarkhej^[1][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Amit Anilchandra Shah	407,659	68.00
	INC	Shashikant V. Patel	1,71,836	28.66
	IND.	Syed Inayathusen Kurmullamirya	8,693	1.45
	BSP	Sureshchandra Bahecharlal Dave	4,923	0.82
	IND.	Prakash Narayanbhai Kumavat	2,753	0.46
Majority			2,35,823	39.34
Turnout			5,99,456	58.45
	BJP hold		Swing

2002

2002 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Sarkhej^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Amit Anilchandra Shah	288,327	66.97
	INC	Himanshu Patel	1,30,291	30.26
Majority			1,58,036	36.71
Turnout			4,30,492	51.31
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Ahmedabad district
• List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
• Naranpura (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
• Gandhinagar (Lok Sabha constituency)