<p>The BJP won 15 seats and the Congress 10 out the 26 seats in the state while counting in Kheda was temporarily stopped in the afternoon after a technical snag.<br /><br />In the 2004 elections, the ruling party had won 14 seats to the Congress' 12.<br />The biggest loss for the Congress was the defeat of central minister Shankarsinh Vaghela who lost the Panchmahals seat to BJP's Prabhatsinh Chauhan by a margin of 2,090 votes.<br /><br />Congress candidate Satyajit Gaekwad of the former royal family of Vadodara lost the Vadodara seat to Balakrishna Shukla of BJP by over 100,000 votes.<br /><br />The BJP's prime ministerial aspirant L.K. Advani won the Gandhinagar seat for the fifth consecutive time, defeating Suresh Patel of the Congress by a margin of over 100,000 votes.<br /><br />The high-profile constituency had witnessed a battle among Advani, Patel, a sitting legislator from Kalol, and noted danseuse Mallika Sarabhai.<br /><br />Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who emerged as a key campaigner for the BJP, was given a free hand in selecting candidates and the ticket was given to a number of Congress rebels.<br /><br />None of the independent candidates or those of the MahaGuarat Janata Party (MJP) - formed by a splinter group of BJP rebels - won.<br /><br /></p>
<p>The BJP won 15 seats and the Congress 10 out the 26 seats in the state while counting in Kheda was temporarily stopped in the afternoon after a technical snag.<br /><br />In the 2004 elections, the ruling party had won 14 seats to the Congress' 12.<br />The biggest loss for the Congress was the defeat of central minister Shankarsinh Vaghela who lost the Panchmahals seat to BJP's Prabhatsinh Chauhan by a margin of 2,090 votes.<br /><br />Congress candidate Satyajit Gaekwad of the former royal family of Vadodara lost the Vadodara seat to Balakrishna Shukla of BJP by over 100,000 votes.<br /><br />The BJP's prime ministerial aspirant L.K. Advani won the Gandhinagar seat for the fifth consecutive time, defeating Suresh Patel of the Congress by a margin of over 100,000 votes.<br /><br />The high-profile constituency had witnessed a battle among Advani, Patel, a sitting legislator from Kalol, and noted danseuse Mallika Sarabhai.<br /><br />Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who emerged as a key campaigner for the BJP, was given a free hand in selecting candidates and the ticket was given to a number of Congress rebels.<br /><br />None of the independent candidates or those of the MahaGuarat Janata Party (MJP) - formed by a splinter group of BJP rebels - won.<br /><br /></p>