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State:	Gujarat
Constituency:	Sabarkantha
Total Votes Polled:	437460
Winner: INC	Nisha Amarsinh Chaudhary	223754
Runner Up: BJP	Arvind Trivedi (Lankesh)	183143
Margin: 40611 (9.46%)

Former acting prime minister on two occasions and the centurion who passed away recently, Gulzarilal Nanda, was elected from here in 1952, 1957 and 1962, before moving on to greater things on the federal proscenium. The constituency also elected the Ravan of the teleserial Ramayan, Arvind Trivedi on a BJP ticket in 1991. In the last elections, Trivedi was trounced by Nisha Amarsinh Chaudhary, wife of the former chief minister.