Haryana Lok Sabha Election Exit Poll Results 2019: BJP to win up to 8 seats
Haryana voted for all 10 Lok Sabha seats in the sixth phase of the parliamentary election.
In Short
- Haryana voted in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha election
- BJP had won seven Lok Sabha seats in Haryana in 2014
- Over 70 per cent polling was recorded in Haryana in Lok Sabha election
Exit poll results for Haryana are out. The BJP, according to the My Axis-India Today exit poll, is dominating the Lok Sabha polls in Haryana, where the ruling party is predicted to win 8-10 seats. Haryana sends 10 MPs to the Lok Sabha.
The Congress may win up to two Lok Sabha seats. The bad news for the Congress is that former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda may lose from Sonepat Lok Sabha constituency.
Haryana voted for all its 10 Lok Sabha seats on May 12, the sixth phase of the parliamentary election. The state saw over 70 per cent polling percentage with Sirsa parliamentary constituency recording the highest 75.97 per cent voting.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the overall polling percentage was at 71.86. Powered by an aggressive campaign by then BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the BJP won seven of eight Lok Sabha seats the party contested in the state in 2014. However, its ally Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) could not win a single seat losing.
As many as 223 candidates, including two Union ministers and a former chief minister, are in the fray for the 10 seats in Haryana. Of the total candidates 11 are women.
Prominent candidates in fray included Union ministers Rao Inderjit Singh from Gurgaon and Krishan Pal Gurjar from Faridabad, where the Election Commission had to order repolling at a booth after a BJP polling agent was found to be trying to influence casting of vote.
Other VIP contestants were former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda from Sonipat, Kumari Selja from Ambala of the Congress and JJP leader Dushyant Chautala.
The Indian National Lok Dal won two while the Congress, which was in power at the time in Haryana could win just one Lok Sabha seat in 2014.
This time, the contest in Haryana was multi-cornered between the BJP, the Congress, the INLD and the Bahujan Samaj Party. The INLD saw a split six months ahead of the Lok Sabha election and the splinter group, JJP fought the election in alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party of Arvind Kejriwal.
The INLD contested all 10 Lok Sabha seats while the JJP fielded candidates on seven leaving the rest three seats for the AAP. The BSP contested the Lok Sabha polls in alliance with the Loktantra Suraksha party floated by rebel BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini.