Vadodara (formerly Baroda Lok Sabha constituency) ( gu, વડોદરા લોકસભા મતવિસ્તાર) is one of the 26

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...

(lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies in

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, a state in

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. This constituency covers 7 out of 10 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of

Vadodara district Vadodara District also known as Baroda District is a district in the eastern part of the state of Gujarat in western India. The city of Vadodara (Baroda), in the western part of the district, is the administrative headquarters. Vadodara Distric ...

and first held elections in 1957 as Baroda Lok Sabha constituency in erstwhile Bombay State (present day Gujarat). It has been known as Vadodara since the 2009 elections. Its first

member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

(MP) was Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad of the

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(INC) who was also re-elected in the next elections in 1962. He was the Maharaja of Baroda of the

Gaekwad dynasty The Gaekwads of Baroda (also spelled as Gaikwads, Guicowars, Gaekwars) (IAST: ''Gāyakavāḍa'') are a Hindu Maratha dynasty origin of the former Maratha Empire and its subsequent Princely States. A dynasty belonging to this clan ruled the prin ...

at the time. P. C. Patel of the

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won the election in 1967. From 1971–80, Gaekwad was MP of this constituency again firstly as a member of the

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and then as a member of the INC. His younger brother, Ranjitsinh Pratapsinh Gaekwad also of the INC represented the constituency from 1980–89 for two terms before being defeated by Prakash Brahmbhatt of the

Janata Dal Janata Dal (“People’s Party”) was an Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha united on 11 October 1988 on the birth annive ...

party in the 1989 election. In 1991, television actress

Deepika Chikhalia Dipika Chikhlia Topiwala is an Indian actress known for playing Devi Sita in Ramanand Sagar's television series Ramayan and for acting in other Indian TV serials. She was also known for her debut film ''Sun Meri Laila'' (1983), opposite Raj Ki ...

of the

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(BJP) won the seat. She was best known at the time for playing

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, Hindu god

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's wife in the highly popular television adaptation of the Hindu religious epic, '' Ramayan''. Satyasinh Dilipsinh Gaekwad of the INC won the election in 1996. In all, three members of the Gaekwad royal family have represented this seat as an MP. The constituency has been represented by a member of the BJP since 1998:

Jayaben Thakkar Jayaben Thakkar (born 14 May 1952) is a former member of Lok Sabha. She represented the Vadodara constituency of Gujarat in the 14th Lok Sabha and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a po ...

served for three terms from 1998 to 2009 and Balkrishna Khanderao Shukla served one term from 2009 to 2014. The current prime minister,

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won the seat in the

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by a victory margin of 570,128 votes, which is one of the highest margins in history of Lok Sabha polls. However he chose to vacate the seat on 29 May to comply with election rules barring an MP from representing two constituencies and instead retained his seat in

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. In the subsequent by election, Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt of the BJP was elected and currently represents the constituency as its MP.

Assembly Segment

Members of Parliament

* *By Election

Election results

General election 1957

General election 1962

General election 1967

General election 1971

General election 1977

General election 1980

General election 1984

General election 1989

General election 1991

General election 1996

General election 1998

General election 1999

General election 2004

General election 2009

General election 2014

By election 2014

General election 2019

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References

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