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BJP got 3.17 lakh more votes than Congress in Haryana, says HC Advocate
Haryana: 2024 Lok Sabha elections: BJP and Congress have equal seats but BJP's vote share is higher and has also increased - 3.17 lakh more votes were received
Babushahi Bureau
Chandigarh, 2024 - In the recently concluded 18th Lok Sabha general election, out of the total 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, BJP and Congress won 5-5 Lok Sabha seats each. But as far as the vote share and total votes received by both the major and national political parties in the entire state are concerned, BJP outshone Congress in this regard, revealed Hemant Kumar, Advocate in Punjab and Haryana High Court.
He said that as per the data obtained from the Election Commission of India (ECI), BJP, which fielded its candidates on all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, received 46.11% votes in the entire state while Congress party, which fielded its candidates on the remaining 9 seats except Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency, got only 43.67% votes.
"If the vote share of the above two parties is converted into votes, then BJP got a total of 59 lakh 96 thousand 486 votes in Haryana state while Congress party got 56 lakh 79 thousand 473 votes. Thus BJP got 3 lakh 17 thousand 13 votes more than Congress. In these elections, the vote share of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which contested the Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat as an ally of Indi Alliance (India) in Haryana along with Congress, was only 3.94% and its Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat candidate Dr. Sushil Gupta got only 5 lakh 13 thousand 154 votes. If we talk in terms of assembly constituencies, out of the total 90 assembly constituencies in the state, BJP got a lead in 44, Congress in 42 while its ally AAP got a lead in 4," he mentioned.
"As far as the two recognized regional parties of the state, namely INLD (Indian National Lok Dal) and JJP (Jananayak Janata Party) are concerned, INLD got only 1.74% votes i.e. 2 lakh 26 thousand 52 votes in the entire state while JJP got only 0.87% i.e. 1 lakh 13 thousand 122 votes. NOTA option got 0.33% i.e. 43 thousand 192 votes in the entire state," he added.
Hemant said that since the upcoming assembly general elections are scheduled in the state in September-October 2024, it will now be worth seeing who wins the close contest between the BJP, which has been in power in the state for the last nine and a half years, and the main opposition party Congress party, i.e. which party gets more seats.
He said that in the Haryana Assembly General Elections held in October 2019, the vote share of BJP across the state was 36.49% while that of the Congress party was 28.08%. If we talk about the votes received, then in October 2019, BJP got 45 lakh 69 thousand 16 votes across the state while Congress got 35 lakh 15 thousand 429 votes. Thus, BJP had received 10 lakh 53 thousand 587 votes more than the Congress party then. In that assembly general election, BJP candidates lost their security deposits in 3 out of 90 assembly constituencies in the state while Congress candidates lost their security deposits in 27 assembly seats.