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BJP, Cong vote share close in Haryana despite saffron party's record win

Source: PTI   -  Edited By: Senjo M R
October 09, 2024 01:09 IST
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The vote share of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress turned out to be close even though the saffron party won the elections with a simple majority.

IMAGE: BJP supporters burn crackers as they celebrate the party's lead in early trends during the counting of votes for the Haryana Assembly elections, at party headquarters in New Delhi, October 8, 2024. Photograph: Amit Sharma/ANI Photo

The BJP received 39.94 percent votes, while the Congress managed 39.09 percent in the assembly polls.

 

Both parties got more votes this time than the last state polls but the Congress saw a 11 percentage point jump, significantly more than BJP's three percentage point rise.

In 2019 assembly polls, when the BJP won 40 seats out of 90 in the assembly, its vote share was 36.49 percent.

The Congress, meanwhile, had a 28.08 percent vote share for its 31 seats.

The BJP is set to retain power and form its third straight government, a historic first for the state, after winning 48 seats in the 2024 assembly polls.

The Congress, which was predicted to win by many exit polls, won 37 seats, according to the Election Commission website.

The Indian National Lok Dal won two seats while independent candidates bagged three.

The Jannayak Janta Party and Aam Aadmi Party both drew a blank in the polls, results of which were declared on Tuesday after elections for the 90-member assembly were held on Saturday.

Of the 90 seats, BJP did not contest the Sirsa seat while Congress had left Bhiwani seat for its ally Communist Party of India-Marxist to contest.

Meanwhile, INLD, which won two seats, improved on its vote share of 2019, securing 4.14 percent this time as against 2.44 percent last time when it had won only one seat.

JJP suffered a heavy loss of vote share, a fall from 15 per cent in 2019 -- when it had won 10 seats -- to 0.90 percent.

Aam Aadmi Party, which contested on its own, secured a vote share of 1.79 percent as against 0.48 percent in last assembly elections.

NOTA vote share stood at 0.38 percent this time as against 0.52 percent in the last elections.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress and BJP won five seats each.

BJP had secured a vote share of 46.11 percent while Congress had secured a vote share of 43.67 from the nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats it contested.

AAP, as an INDIA bloc party, had fielded its candidate in Kurukshetra and lost.

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