There were 91 female candidates in the fray this time compared to 88 in the 2007 elections.
The BJP had fielded 19 women candidates and the Congress 14 and remaining were from other political outfits and independents.
Among the 12 women candidates who won on BJP ticket, the one who stands out is chief minister Narendra Modi's close aide and revenue minister Anandi Patel, who won from Ghatlodia constituency in Ahmedabad city by a record margin.
She had earlier contested from Patan but had to vacate her constituency this time after delimitation altered political equations and the party handed her a ticket from Ghatlodia, an urban seat.
Patel won by a margin of whopping 1,10,395 votes, having polled 1,54,599 votes against her nearest rival Ramesh Patel of Congress who managed to get only 44,204 votes.
BJP, which had fielded Dr Maya Kodnani, a Sindhi and a gynaecologist from Naroda assembly constituency in the 2007 assembly polls, gave ticket to another Sindhi and a practising gynaecologist Dr Nirmala Wadhwani this time as Kodnani was convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case.
Wadhwani bagged 96,333 votes to defeat her nearest Congress rival Bhavan Bharwad by 58,352 votes.
BJP's Manisha Vakil won the Vadodara City (SC) seat defeating her nearest rival Jayshree Solanki of Congress by a huge margin of 51,889 votes. MORE
