Kaithal 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. Randeep Singh Surjewala is the current MLA of Kaithal.
In the 2014 Haryana Vidhan Sabha (Haryana Legislative Assembly) Elections, Independent candidate Randeep Singh Surjewala defeated INLD candidate Kailash Bhagat by nearly 24 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 Kaithal Assembly
According to the 2011 census Kaithal district has a population of 1,072,861,
Kaithal Vidhan Sabha Constituency
Constituency number: 17
Total electors: 1,99,956
Female electors: 93,026
Male electors: 1,06,930
Sitting MLA, party: Randeep Singh Surjewala, Independent
The winning margin in 2014:
Runner up name, party: Kailash Bhagat, INLD
Key candidates in Kaithal for 2019 Vidhan Sabha elections
Sitting and Previous MLAs of Kaithal Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency and margin of victories
Year | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes | Margin |
2014 | Randeep Singh Surjewala | INC | 65524 | Kailash Bhagat | INLD | 41849 | 23675 |
2009 | Randeep Singh Surjewala | INC | 59889 | Kailash Bhagat | INLD | 37387 | 22502 |
2005 | Shamsher Singh Surjewala | INC | 43573 | Kailash Bhagat | INLD | 38461 | 5112 |
2000 | Lila Ram | INLD | 35440 | Dharam Pal S/O Didara | IND | 17483 | 17957 |
1996 | Charan Dass | SAP | 27384 | Roshan Lal Tiwari | HVP | 23145 | 4239 |
1991 | Surender Kumar | INC | 17190 | Charan Das | HVP | 16753 | 437 |
1987 | Surinder Kumat | LKD | 26326 | Charan Dass | IND | 19637 | 6689 |
1982 | Roshan Lal | IND | 20996 | Davinder Shrma | INC | 17067 | 3929 |
1977 | Raghunath | JNP | 20846 | Om Prabha Jain | IND | 16901 | 3945 |
1972 | Charan Dass | IND | 26095 | Om Parbha | INC | 22673 | 3422 |
1968 | Om Prabha | INC | 21273 | Gian Chand | BJS | 18950 | 2323 |
1967 | O. Prabha | INC | 21933 | A. Chand | SWA | 20015 | 1918 |
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.