Panipat City is one of the 90 constituencies to go for polls for Haryana Legislative Assembly on October 21. Panipat City falls under Panipat District of Haryana. Rohita Rewri is the current MLA of Panipat City.
In the 2014 Haryana Vidhan Sabha (Haryana Legislative Assembly) Elections, BJP candidate Rohita Rewri defeated Congress candidate Virender Kumar Shah by more than 50 thousand votes.
As of 2011 India census, Panipat had an urban population of 5,13,195.
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.
Panipat City Vidhan Sabha Constituency
Constituency number: 25
Total electors: 2,13,758
Female electors: 99,437
Male electors: 1,14,313
Third gender electors: 8
Sitting MP, party: Rohita Rewri, BJP
The winning margin in 2014: 53721
Runner up name, party: Virender Kumar Shah, IND
Key candidates in Panipat City for 2019 Vidhan Sabha elections
Sitting and Previous MLAs of Panipat City Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency and margin of victories
Year | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes | Margin |
2014 | Rohita Rewri | BJP | 92757 | Virender Kumar Shah | INC | 39036 | 53721 |
2009 | Balbir Paul Sahah | INC | 36294 | Sanjay Bhatia | BJP | 24135 | 12159 |
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.