Surat West Assembly constituency

Legislative Assembly constituency in Gujarat State, India

Surat West
Constituency No. 167 for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Gujarat
District	Surat
LS constituency	Surat
Established	1962
Total electors	256,881^[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Purnesh Modi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2022

Surat West is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.^[2]^[3] It is part of Surat district.

List of segments

This assembly seat represents the following segments,^[4]

Surat City Taluka (Part) – Surat Municipal Corporation (Part) Ward No.-14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 63, 64, 65.

Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, 2022: Surat West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Purnesh Modi	122,981	75.73
	INC	Sanjay Rameshchandra Patwa	18,669	11.5
	AAP	Moxesh Rameshchandra Sanghavi	16,955	10.44
	NOTA	None of the above	2,441	1.5
Majority			1,04,312	64.23
Turnout
Registered electors			2,53,691	^[6]
	BJP hold		Swing

Gujarat Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Surat West^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Purnesh Modi	111,615	74.27	+0.01
	INC	Iqbal Patel	33,733	22.45	+0.44
	Independent	Sonal Rochani	461
	AIHCP	Nilpesh Patel	458
	NCP	Ravishankar Paliwal	451
	BSP	Data Hurbanu Mosalim	419
	Independent	Mohammad Salim Yusuf Selod	270
	SHS	Prashant Lokare	208
	Independent	Soeb Shah	185
	Independent	Sheikh Ali Haidar Jilani	122
	Independent	Farjanabibi Shah	117
	Independent	Dilip Natvar Parekh	92
	Bharatiya Bahujan Congress	Sachin Barsing	89
	Independent	Alimunbi Shah	71
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,986	1.32
Majority			77,882	51.82
Turnout			1,50,277	67.68
	BJP hold		Swing

Due to death of sitting MLA Kishor Vankawala, by-elections were held on 4 December 2013 and results declared on 8 December.^[7]

^[8]

2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: Surat West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Kishor Vankawala	99,099	74.26
	INC	Ushaben Patel	29,368	22.01
Majority			69,731	52.25
Turnout			1,33,445	67.86
	BJP hold		Swing

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^ "Gujarat: Order No. 33: Table-A: Assembly constituency and Their Extent" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Delimitation Commission of India. 12 December 2006. pp. 2–31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Gujarat General Legislative Election 2017". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
^ "Gujarat Legislative Elections". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "Surat-West seat: BJP's Purnesh Modi to slug it out with Cong's D L Patel". Indian Express. 16 November 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)