2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election
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 Structure of the Haryana Legislative Assembly after the election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Legislative Assembly election was held in Haryana on 21 October 2019 to elect 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly.[1][2] The final voter turnout was recorded at 68.20%.[3] The results were announced on 24 October 2019.[4]
The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest party and formed the government in a post-poll alliance with the Jannayak Janta Party and seven Independent MLAs.[5] BJP's Manohar Lal Khattar and JJP President Dushyant Chautala were sworn in as Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively of BJP-JJP alliance government.
In the previous election in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party had won a majority and ended the 10-year rule of the Congress government in the state and Manohar Lal Khattar became the Chief Minister.
Elections
Schedule
| Poll Event | Haryana | |
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| Notification date | 27 September 2019 | |
| Last Date for filing Nominations | 4 October 2019 | |
| Scrutiny of Nominations | 5 October 2019 | |
| Last date for withdrawal of Candidature | 7 October 2019 | |
| Date of Poll | 21 October 2019 | |
| Counting of Votes | 24 October 2019 | |
| Source: Business Today[1] | ||
Voter turnout
After the final count the turnout was updated to 68.20%.[3] Fatehabad 73.7%, Kaithal 73.3%, Jagadhari 73%, and Hathin 72.5% had highest turnout. Gurugram 51.2%, Badkhal 51.3%, and Tigaon 53.2% had lowest turnout of just above 50%.[6]
Parties and alliances
| No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bharatiya Janata Party | 
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Manohar Lal Khattar | 90 |
| No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested |
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| 1. | Indian National Congress | 
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Bhupinder Singh Hooda | 90 |
| No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jannayak Janata Party | 
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Dushyant Chautala | 87 |
| No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Indian National Lok Dal | 
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Abhay Singh Chautala | 81 | ||
| 2. | Shiromani Akali Dal | 
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3 |
Surveys and Polls
Vote share
| Publishing Date | Polling Agency | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDA | UPA | Others | ||
| 26 September 2019 | ABP News – C Voter[7] | 46 % | 22% | 32% |
| 18 October 2019 | IANS – C Voter[8] | 47.5 % | 21.4 % | 30.7% |
Best Choice for Chief Minister
| Publishing Date | Polling Agency | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manohar Lal Khattar | Bhupinder Singh Hooda | Dushyant Chautala | Ashok Tanwar | Abhay Chautala | Deepender Hooda | Om Prakash Chautala | Kuldeep Bishnoi | Naveen Jaihind | others | can't say | ||
| 26 September 2019 | ABP News – C Voter[7] | 48.1 % | 12.6% | 11.1% | 4.3 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 12.8 | 5.9 |
Seat Projections
| Poll type | Publishing Date | Polling Agency | Majority | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDA | UPA | Others | ||||
| Opinion polls | 26 September 2019 | ABP News-CVoter[7] | 78 | 08 | 04 | 33 |
| 26 September 2019 | Patriotic Voter [9] | 51 | 25 | 14 | 11 | |
| 27 September 2019 | NewsX – Pollstrat[10] | 76 | 06 | 08 | 31 | |
| 17 October 2019 | Republic - Jan Ki Baat[11] | 58-70 | 12-15 | 5-8 | 13-25 | |
| 18 October 2019 | ABP-CVoter[12] | 83 | 3 | 4 | 38 | |
| 18 October 2019 | IANS-CVoter[13] | 79-87 | 1-7 | – | 34-42 | |
| Exit polls | India Today - Axis[14] | 32-44 | 30-42 | 6-10 | HUNG | |
| TV9 - Bharatvarsh[15] | 47 | 23 | 20 | 2 | ||
| News18 - IPSOS[15] | 75 | 10 | 5 | 30 | ||
| Patriotic Voter [9] | 46 | 26 | 18 | 1 | ||
| Republic Media - Jan Ki Baat[15] | 52-63 | 15-19 | 12-18 | 7-18 | ||
| ABP News - C Voter[15] | 72 | 8 | 10 | 27 | ||
| NewsX - Pollstrat[15] | 75-80 | 9-12 | 1-4 | 30-35 | ||
| Times Now[15] | 77 | 11 | 8 | 32 | ||
Detailed Results
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | |||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 4,569,016 | 36.49% |  3.39
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40 | 7
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| Indian National Congress | 3,515,498 | 28.08% | 7.55
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31 | 16
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| Jannayak Janata Party | 1,858,033 | 14.80% | New | 10 | 10
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| Indian National Lok Dal | 305,486 | 2.44% | 21.67
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1 | 18
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| Haryana Lokhit Party | 81,641 | 0.66% | 0.56
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1 | 1
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| Bahujan Samaj Party | 518,812 | 4.21% | 0.16
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0 | 1
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| Shiromani Akali Dal | 47,336 | 0.38% | 0.24
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0 | 1
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| Independents | 1,129,942 | 9.17% | 6.34
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7 | 2
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| None of the Above | 65,270 | 0.53% | |||||||
| Total | 12,520,177 | 100.00 | 90 | ±0 | |||||
| Valid votes | 12,520,177 | 99.85 | |||||||
| Invalid votes | 19,076 | 0.15 | |||||||
| Votes turnout | 12,539,253 | 68.20 | |||||||
| Abstentions | 5,847,429 | 31.80 | |||||||
| Registered voters | 18,386,682 | ||||||||
Democratic Standards
Performance of the political parties
During the election campaign, BJP had given the slogan of "75+" i.e. BJP will win more than 75 seats out of 90 seats in Haryana. But, BJP couldn't fulfill its target and it even lost the majority in the Legislative Assembly.
The INC emerged as the big gainer in the election. INC fought the election under the leadership of Selja Kumari and former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Though INC couldn't reach the majority mark of 46 seats, it gained 15 seats in comparison to the previous election and won 30 seats.
Barrier to entry and politics of rich
83.3% (75 out of 90) are crorepati, that is, they own assets worth at least ₹10,000,000. Average worth of 2019 assembly members is ₹18.29 crore compare to ₹12.97 crore in 2014. 93.5% of INC (29 of 31), 92.5% of BJP (37 of 40), and 70% of JJP (7 of 10) are crorepati. With ₹25.26 crore per MLA, the average wealth of JJP is highest.[16]
Criminality
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a think tank which does poll analysis for accountability and transparency in democracy, found that the 13.3% (12 of 90) elected MLAs face criminal cases, highest being 4 from INC, followed by 2 from BJP, 1 from JJP, and rest being independent or single MLA parties.[16]
Dynastism and nepotism
Dynasts had field day in the election results, several dynasts across various parties won elections.[17]
Highest number of dynasts won from INC, namely Bhupinder Singh Hooda from Ranbir Singh Hooda, Kiran Choudhry from Bansi Lal clan, Kuldeep Bishnoi from Bhajan Lal clan, Chiranjeev Rao from Ajay Singh Yadav clan, Varun Chaudhary from Phool Chand Mullana;[17] as well as Rao Dan Singh related to Rao Narbir Singh[18][19] Aftab Ahmed, son of 5 time MLA, Khurshid Ahmed,[20][21] Amit Sihag Chautala is another dynast who became INC MLA from Dabwali, he is grandson of Devi Lal.[22]
Dynasts who won from BJP are Dura Ram of Bhajan Lal clan.[23][24]
Highest number of winning dynasts were from the Devi Lal's Chautala clan which had fielded 6 family members from different parties and 5 of them won including Dushyant Chautala and his mother Naina Singh Chautala from JJP, Abhay Singh Chautala from INLD, and INC rebel Ranjit Singh Chautala as independent candidate;[17] as well as Amit Sihag Chautala from Dabwali as INC MLA.[22] This was followed by 2 from Bhajan Lal clan, namely Kuldeep Bishnoi[17] and Dura Ram.[23][24] Lone HLP party MLA Gopal Kanda is also from political family as his father too had contested General Elections in the past on Jan Sangh ticket.[25]
Lack of female empowerment
Only 9 (10% of total legislature membership) female candidate were elected, 4 from Congress, 3 from BJP, 1 from JJP and 1 independent.[26]
Educational standards of candidates
According to ADR report, only 69% (62 of 90) have at least a bachelor's degree,[16] i.e. 31% lack even the basic degree,
Results by district
| District | Seats | BJP | INC | JJP | Others |
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| Ambala Division | |||||
| Panchkula | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ambala | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Yamunanagar | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Kurukshetra | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Karnal Division | |||||
| Kaithal | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Karnal | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Panipat | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Rohtak Division | |||||
| Sonipat | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Bhiwani | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Charkhi Dadri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rohtak | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Jhajjar | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Hisar Division | |||||
| Jind | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Fatehabad | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sirsa | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Hisar | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Gurgaon Division | |||||
| Mahendragarh | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rewari | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Gurgaon | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Faridabad Division | |||||
| Nuh | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Palwal | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Faridabad | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 90 | 40 | 31 | 10 | 9 |
Results by constituency
See also
- 2019 Indian general election in Haryana
- 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
- 2019 elections in India
- Elections in Haryana
- Political dynasties of Haryana and corruption
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