The Election Commission has announced the dates for 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 come after counting 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 in Haryana on August 27. 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.
Last time voting was held in a single phase
Voting for 90 seats of Haryana Assembly was held in a single phase in the last election i.e. 2019 Assembly elections. Then votes were cast for all the seats of Haryana Assembly on 21 October 2019. The election results were announced on 24 October. In the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections, 68.20 percent voters used their franchise.
No party got majority in 2019
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which came as the ruling party in the Haryana Assembly elections, 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, and Haryana Lokhit Party won one seat with less than one percent vote share. In the 2019 elections, seven independents were also successful in reaching the assembly by winning Vijayashree. The magic figure of majority in the 90-member Haryana Assembly is 46 seats. No party got majority.
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BJP-JJP alliance was formed after the elections
After the Haryana election results, BJP and JJP along with independents formed the government under the leadership of Manoharlal Khattar. JJP’s Dushyant Chautala was made Deputy CM. Just before the Lok Sabha elections, BJP had made Naib Singh Saini the CM in place of Manohar Lal Khattar. BJP had also broken the alliance with JJP.
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BJP and JJP fought separately in the recent Lok Sabha elections. There are 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. In the recent Lok Sabha elections, both BJP and Congress parties had won five seats each. It is noteworthy that in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP had made a clean sweep in the state by winning all the seats.