As per a News18 analysis of the Haryana election results, in around 54% seats, the incumbent party lost the elections
The BJP beat anti-incumbency in Haryana, winning a historic third consecutive term in Haryana, but the same cannot be said for 49 of the 90 Assembly seats in the state that elected a different party this time than the one that won the constituency in 2019.
As per a News18 analysis of the Haryana election results, in around 54% seats, the incumbent party lost the elections. Of the six swing seats in Haryana where the margin of victory was less than 5% in the last three Assembly elections, the Congress won five and the BJP won one.
There are now nine bellwether seats in Haryana that have consistently voted for the party that came to power for the last four Assembly elections.
Some other noteworthy highlights from the Haryana election results are:
- No party has won these eight seats in Haryana more than once in the Assembly elections since the last delimitation — Kalayat, Samalkha, Safidon, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Narnaund, Barwala, and Dadri.
- The BJP has been consistently winning these two seats in Haryana for the last four elections — Ambala Cantt and Bhiwani.
- The Congress has been consistently winning in these four seats in Haryana for the last four elections — Baroda, Garhi Sampla Kiloi, Kalanaur, Jhajjar and Beri.
- The Congress lost one of its three stronghold seats in Haryana, which it has been winning consistently over the last three elections with a margin of over 10%, to the BJP: That is the Tosham seat, The two seats it was able to retain are Garhi Sampla Kiloi and Jhajjar.
- The Congress has won 10 of the 13 seats with more than 75% turnout.
The BJP, which pulled off a hat-trick of wins in Haryana by bucking anti-incumbency, managed to make significant inroads into the Dalit seats and Jat strongholds. The Congress was heavily banking on the Dalit and Jat votes to make a comeback after a decade of being out of power.
Not only this, the BJP also managed to retain seats in the Ahirwal region and the GT Road belt to shatter the Congress’s comeback plans in Haryana, which went to polls on Saturday and results for which were declared on Tuesday.
While the BJP ended up with its best-ever haul of 48 seats, 11 more than those won by Congress in the present elections, parties like the JJP and AAP were decimated and the INLD managed to win just two seats.
Proving wrong exit polls which predicted a comfortable Congress win, the BJP will be forming government in Haryana for the third consecutive term.
