The Election Commission has announced the dates for the 90 seats of Haryana Assembly. Voting will be held in a single phase for all 90 seats of Haryana. Voting will be held on all 90 seats on October 1 and the election results will be declared after counting of votes on October 4. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced the election schedule.
The Chief Election Commissioner said that out of 90 seats in Haryana, 73 are general and 17 are reserved. The final voter list will be released on 27 August in Haryana. He said that there are more than 2 crore voters in Haryana. There are 20 thousand 629 polling booths. There are 150 model polling booths. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said that the Lok Sabha elections are a proof of our democratic strength in the world.
In the last election i.e. the 2019 assembly elections, votes were cast in a single phase for the 90 seats of the Haryana Assembly. Then votes were cast for all the seats of the Haryana Assembly on 21 October 2019. The election results were announced on 24 October. In the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections, 68.20 percent of the voters exercised their franchise.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which contested the Haryana assembly elections as the ruling party, got 36.7 percent votes. BJP emerged as the largest party by winning 40 seats. Congress won 31 seats with 28.2 percent vote share, Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) won 10 seats with 14.9 percent vote share, Haryana Lokhit Party won one seat with less than one percent vote share. In the 2019 elections, seven independents also succeeded in reaching the assembly by winning. The magic number for majority in the 90-member Haryana Assembly is 46 seats. No party got a majority.
After the Haryana election results, BJP and JJP formed a government under the leadership of Manohar Lal Khattar with the support of independents. JJP’s Dushyant Chautala was made the Deputy CM. Just before the Lok Sabha elections, BJP made Naib Singh Saini the CM in place of Manohar Lal Khattar. BJP had also broken its alliance with JJP.
In the recent Lok Sabha elections, BJP and JJP fought separately. There are 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. In the recent Lok Sabha elections, both BJP and Congress won five seats each. It is worth noting that in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP had done a clean sweep in the state by winning all the seats.
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