Guhla is one of the 90 constituencies to go for polls for Haryana Legislative Assembly on October 21. It is situated in the Kaithal district and is a part of the Kurukshetra parliamentary constituency. BJP’s Kulwant Ram Bazigar is the current MLA of Guhla.
In the 2014 Haryana Vidhan Sabha (Haryana Legislative Assembly) Elections, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kulwant Ram Bazigar defeated Congress candidate Dillu Ram by a close margin of just over 2 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.
Demography of Guhla Assembly
As of 2011 India census, Guhla had a population of 1,54,623.
Guhla Vidhan Sabha Constituency
Constituency number: 15
Total electors: 1,72,496
Female electors: 81,710
Male electors: 90,786
Sitting MP, party: Kulwant Ram Bazigar, BJP
The winning margin in 2014: 2440
Runner up name, party: Dillu Ram, Congress
Key candidates in Guhla for 2019 Vidhan Sabha elections
Sitting and Previous MLAs of Guhla Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency and margin of victories
Year | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes | Margin |
2014 | Kulwant Ram Bazigar | BJP | 36598 | Dillu Ram | INC | 34158 | 2440 |
2009 | Phool Singh | INLD | 37016 | Dillu Ram | INC | 31763 | 5253 |
2005 | Dillu Ram | INC | 55487 | Buta Singh | INLD | 45360 | 10127 |
2000 | Amar Singh | INLD | 51402 | Dilu Ram | INC | 36428 | 14974 |
1996 | Dillu Ram | INC | 34385 | Amar Singh | SAP | 31599 | 2786 |
1991 | Amar Singh | JP | 34990 | Dillu Ram | INC | 31760 | 3230 |
1987 | Buta Singh | LKD | 40772 | Dilu Ram | INC | 14145 | 26627 |
1982 | Dilu Ram | LKD | 23788 | Ran Singh | INC | 19884 | 3904 |
1977 | Ishwar | JNP | 20824 | Sant Ram | IND | 5057 | 15767 |
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.