Gharaunda is one of the 90 constituencies to go for polls for Haryana Legislative Assembly on October 21. It falls in the Karnal district. Harvinder Kalyan is the current MLA of Gharaunda.
In the 2014 Haryana Vidhan Sabha (Haryana Legislative Assembly) Elections, BJP candidate Harvinder Kalyan defeated INLD candidate Narender Sangwan by nearly 18 thousand votes.
Out of the 90 Assembly constituencies in Haryana, 17 are reserved for Scheduled Castes as per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008.
Gharaunda Vidhan Sabha Constituency
Constituency number: 22
Total electors: 2,13,127
Female electors: 99,025
Male electors: 1,14,100
Third gender electors: 2
Sitting MP, party: Harvinder Kalyan, BJP
The winning margin in 2014: 17883
Runner up name, party: Narender Sangwan, INLD
Key candidates in Gharaunda for 2019 Vidhan Sabha elections
Sitting and Previous MLAs of Gharaunda Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency and margin of victories
Year | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes | Margin |
2014 | Harvinder Kalyan | BJP | 55247 | Narender Sangwan | INLD | 37364 | 17883 |
2009 | Narender Sangwan | INLD | 35256 | Varinder Singh Rathore | INC | 33596 | 1660 |
2005 | Rekha Rana | INLD | 25237 | Jai Pal Sharma | IND | 25216 | 21 |
2000 | Ramesh Rana | INLD | 43479 | Jaipal Sharma | IND | 20009 | 23470 |
1996 | Ramesh | BJP | 20230 | Ramesh Kumar Rana S/O Jagpal Singh | SAP | 20219 | 11 |
1991 | Ram Pal Singh | INC | 19466 | Om Parkash | BJP | 9692 | 9774 |
1987 | Piru Ram | LKD | 23424 | Ved Pal | INC | 19338 | 4086 |
1982 | Ved Pal | INC | 12646 | Om Prakash | IND | 11898 | 748 |
1977 | Ram Pal Singh | JNP | 17949 | Om Parkash S/O Hari Chand | IND | 6997 | 10952 |
1972 | Rulya Ram | NCO | 16746 | Zila Singh | INC | 13537 | 3209 |
1968 | Randhir Singh | BJS | 7766 | Rulya Ram | SWA | 7754 | 12 |
1967 | M. Chand | INC | 13906 | R. Singh | BJS | 12736 | 1170 |
Important dates
Notification to be issued on | September 27 |
Last date for filing nomination | October 4 |
Scrutiny of nomination | October 5 |
Last date for withdrawal of nomination | October 7 |
Date of polling | October 21 |
Date of Result | October 24 |
In the 2014 Haryana Assembly elections, held on 15 October 2014, the saffron party won the majority in the Assembly and Manohar Lal Khattar was chosen to head the new government. The term of the current Haryana Assembly will end on 2 November.