LIVE Coverage | Gujarat Assembly Election Voting 2022: Out of the total 788 candidates in the first phase of polling, 70 are women including nine fielded by the BJP, six by the Congress, and five by the AAP. Over 2.3 crore registered voters in the state are eligible to cast their votes in the 1st phase of the elections.
As Gujarat voted today in the first round of a two-part election, BJP candidate Rivaba Jadeja, wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, said she saw "no difficulty" in contrasting ideologies within her family.
Gujarat Assembly Election 2022 LIVE Updates: An average voter turnout of 48.48 per cent was recorded till 3 pm on Thursday in the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections underway in 89 seats across 19 districts of Saurashtra-Kutch and southern regions.
According to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), this mega show will cover more than 50 km starting from the Naroda Gam and ending at Gandhinagar South constituency.