Pehowa is one of the 90 constituencies to go for polls for Haryana Legislative Assembly on October 21. It falls under the Kurukshetra district. INLDs Jaswinder Singh Sandhu is the current MLA of Pehowa.
In the 2014 Haryana Vidhan Sabha (Haryana Legislative Assembly) Elections, INLD’s Jaswinder Singh Sandhu defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Jai Bhagwan Sharma by nearly 10 thousand votes.
Pehowa Vidhan Sabha Constituency
Constituency number: 14
Total electors: 1,72,496
Female electors: 81,710
Male electors: 90,786
Sitting MP, party: Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, INLD
The winning margin in 2014:
Runner up name, party: Jai Bhagwan Sharma, BJP
Key candidates in Pehowa for 2019 Vidhan Sabha elections
Sitting and Previous MLAs of Pehowa Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency and margin of victories
Year | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Party | Votes | Margin |
2014 | Jaswinder Singh Sandhu | INLD | 49110 | Jai Bhagwan Sharma ( D.D.) | BJP | 39763 | 9347 |
2009 | Harmohinder Singh | INC | 35429 | Jaswinder Singh | INLD | 31349 | 4080 |
2005 | Harmohinder Singh Chattha | INC | 34008 | Balbir Singh Saini | BJP | 30355 | 3653 |
2000 | Jaswinder Singh Sandhu | INLD | 36031 | Balbir Singh Saini | IND | 21940 | 14091 |
1996 | Jasvinder Singh Sandhu | SAP | 35482 | Balbir Singh Saini | INC | 21887 | 13595 |
1991 | Jaswinder Singh | JP | 23236 | Balbir Singh | IND | 17344 | 5892 |
1987 | Balbir Singh | LKD | 43756 | Tara Singh | INC | 20162 | 23594 |
1982 | Piara Singh | INC | 20877 | Balbir Singh | IND | 18928 | 1949 |
1977 | Tara Singh | JNP | 16992 | Piara Singh | INC | 7904 | 9088 |
1972 | Piara Singh | INC | 21224 | Khushvant Singh | IND | 15391 | 5833 |
1968 | Piara Singh | INC | 11798 | Ram Dia | BJS | 7627 | 4171 |
1967 | C. Lal | SWA | 13010 | M. Singh | INC | 11117 | 1893 |
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.