Haryana Election Results 2019; Full List of Winners and Losers: Khattar retains Karnal; Surjewala, BJP's star candidates Phogat, Dutt taste defeat

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 40 seats in the Haryana Assembly election, the results for which were declared on Thursday. While the saffron party’s seat share fell by six, its vote share went up to 36.48 percent from 33.2 percent in the 2014 Assembly polls.

The Congress, on the other hand, won in 31 seats and a vote share of 28.1 percent registering a remarkable improvement over its 2014 figures. In 2014, the party had won just 15 seats with a vote share of just 20.58 percent.

Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) bagged 10 seats while Abhay Chautala’s Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and the Haryana Lokhit Party (HLP) won in one constituency each. The polls also saw the victory of seven Independent candidates.

The Bahujan Samaj Party and Shiromani Akali Dal were also in the fray.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar retained his Karnal seat by a margin of 45,188 votes against his Congress rival Tarlochan Singh. JJP leader Dushyant Chautala won by 47,452 votes over the sitting BJP MLA Prem Lata in Uchana Kalan.

Among the sportspersons fielded by the BJP, only former Indian hockey captain Sandeep Singh won from Pehowa. International wrestlers Babita Phogat (Dadri) and Yogeshwar Dutt (Baroda) lost. TikTok star Sonali Phogat also lost to senior Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi in Adampur.

Senior cabinet minister Anil Vij won from Ambala Cantonment, defeating Independent candidate Chitra Sarwara by 20,165 votes. Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala lost to his BJP rival Leela Ram Gurjar by just 1,246 votes in Kaithal while Assembly Speaker Kanwar Pal defeated Akram Khan of the Congress by a margin of 16,373 votes in Jagadhri.

The Congress winners include Geeta Bhukkal, Raghubir Singh Kadian and Captain Ajay Yadav’s son Chiranjeev Rao. Congress candidate and former BCCI chief Ranbir Singh Mahendra lost in Badhra constituency to JJP’s Naina Chautala. Raj Kumar Saini, chief of Loktanter Suraksha Party and former BJP MP from Kurukshetra, was defeated by the Congress candidate in Gohana.

Here’s the full list of winners and losers in the 90 Assembly constituencies in Haryana:

- With inputs from PTI