A majority of these seats were vacated by sitting MLAs who contested the Lok Sabha elections and won.

In case of the Chotila assembly constituency in the Saurashtra region, the Congress MLA had died early this year. In Sami Harij in north Gujarat the sitting Congress MLA had resigned and contested the Lok Sabha polls on a BJP ticket but was defeated.

The filing of nominations for the seven assembly seats ended Aug 24. The scrutiny of the nominations was done Tuesday. The last day for withdrawal of nominations is Thursday.