Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Alpesh Thakor won from the Gandhinagar South constituency by a margin of 43,064 votes against Congress’ Dr Himanshu Patel in the Gujarat Assembly elections 2022. Thakor garnered a total of 134,051 votes and bagged a vote share of 54.59 per cent.

Alpesh Thakor replaced sitting BJP MLA Shambhuji Thakor from the constituency. Gandhinagar South has been a stronghold of the saffron party since 1995.

In 2017, Alpesh Thakor had won the Radhanpur seat on a Congress ticket. He had defected to the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election and later lost to Congress’ Raghu Desai in the October 2019 byelection.