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Rajkot West Assembly constituency

constituency of the Gujarat legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ17199169 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rajkot West is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation. Prior to that some areas under it were called 'Rajkot II' seat. Its former MLA was Gujarat's Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. It is a segment of Rajkot Lok Sabha constituency.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments

Rajkot Taluka (Part) – Rajkot Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No. – 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2022

2017

2014 Bypoll

2012

2007

Vajubhai Vala M BJP 48215

Nathwani Kashmira Bakulbhai F INC 38359

February 2002 by-poll

1998 Vidhan Sabha

Vajubhai Roodabhai Vala (BJP) : 43,034 votes

Kashmeeraben Bakulbhai Nathvanee F AIRJP : 14316

1990 Vidhan Sabha

Vajubhai Vala (BJP) : 31,864 votes

Sudhir Joshi M INC : 16388

See also

List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly

Rajkot district

References

External links

"Results of Gujarat Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rajkot West Assembly constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.