Ahmedabad : Riding on a pro-incumbency wave amid talk of his moving to Delhi in 2014, Narendra Modi is set for third consecutive victory. As per Gujarat Election Results 2012 trends available at 1.55 pm, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading/has won in 121 seats of the total 182 seats, the Congress is doing well only in 55 seats.

Keshubhai Patel of Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) is among the two candidates of the party who have won. Others are leading in four seats.

An emphatic victory for Narendra Modi will mean that the chorus within the BJP for a bigger role in the party’s national affairs will grow. Modi has also won his Maninagar seat beating Shweta Bhatt of the Congress. He will address the press at 5 pm.

As the BJP may cross its 2007 tally of 117 seats, Modi may very well become the face of the BJP for 2014 general elections.

However, officially, the BJP today parried questions on whether he will be the party’s prime ministerial candidate in the next Lok Sabha elections.

“Modi bhai has always been an important leader in the BJP… We are not a dynastic party which is led by a Yuvaraj. We function in a pure democratic fashion,” BJP chief Spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

He was asked whether the third straight victory in Gujarat has defined Modi as the prime ministerial candidate for the BJP in the next Lok Sabha election in 2014.

The party should be allowed to rejoice in its performance-led victory in the state, Prasad said, adding that Modi fought against all forms of vicious campaigns against himself at different levels in the state as well as internationally.

Key candidates

BJP: Amit Shah – Naranpura (won), Saurabh Patel – Akota (won), Jayrajsinh Jadeja – Gondal (won), Poonamben Maadam – Khambhalia, Anandiben Patel – Ghatlodi, Ganpat Vasava – Mangrol, Keshubhai Patel – Visavadar, Kashyap Shukla – Rajkot (East), Bhupendrasinh Chudasama – Dholka, Ranjitbhai Gilitwala – Surat (East), Mahendrabhai Mashru – Junagadh, Dushyant Patel – Bharuch, Jetha Bharwad – Shahera, Purushottam Solanki – Bhavnagar (Rural), Pravinsinh Chauhan – Godhra

Congress: Mahendrasinh Vaghela – Bayad (won), Paresh Dhanani – Amreli (won), Jayesh Radadiya – Jetpur (won), Jawahar Chavda – Manavdar (won)

Others: Keshubhai Patel (Visavadar)

Trailing/Lost

BJP: Dilip Sanghani – Amreli (lost), RC Faldu – Jamnagar (Rural), Jaynarayan Vyas – Sidhapur (lost), Ramesh Maheshwari – Gandhidham, Kama Rathod – Sanand, Praful Patel – Himatnagar

Congress: Kanubhai Balata- Visavadar, Indranil Rajyaguru- Rajkot (East) Jagrutiben Pandya – Eillisbridge, Tejash Chaudhary – Mangrol, Shaktisinh Gohil – Bhavnagar (Rural) (lost), Arjun Modhwadia – Porbander

Others: Gordhanbhai Zadafia – Gondal (lost), Dr Kanubhai Kalsariya –Gariyadhar (lost), Jagruti Pandya – Ellisbridge

The voting was spread across two phases – Dec 13 and 17 with record 71.32 percent voters casting their ballot.