A general election was held on 15 October 2014 to elect 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly in the Indian state of Haryana. The term of the previous assembly, elected in 2009, was to expire on 27 October 2014. The results were announced on 19 October. The BJP won the majority in the Assembly. Manohar Lal Khattar was chosen to head the new government.

Parties contending Four major parties contested the election – the Indian National Congress (INC, incumbent), the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC).A multi-cornered fight in Haryana LiveMint (14 October 2014) Others that contested the elections included candidates from the Bahujan Samaj Party, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Samajwadi Party, Shiromani Akali Dal (an alliance partner of BJP in neighbouring Punjab), other regional parties and independents.

Parties contested

No. Party Flag SymbolLeaderSeats contested1. Bharatiya Janata Party Manohar Lal Khattar 90

No. Party Flag SymbolLeaderSeats contested1. Indian National Congress Bhupinder Singh Hooda 90

No. Party Flag SymbolLeaderSeats contested1. Indian National Lok Dal Om Prakash Chautala 88

No. Party Flag SymbolLeaderSeats contested1. Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) Kuldeep Bishnoi 65

Date The Election Commission of India announced, on 12 September 2014, Haryana's Legislative Assembly election under Article 324 and 172(1) of the Constitution of India and Section 15 of Representation of the People Act, 1951. The announcement stated 90 assembly seats to be contested, of which 17 constituencies were reserved for Scheduled Castes candidates.Schedule for General Election to the Legislative Assemblies of Haryana and Maharashtra Election Commission of India, Govt of India (2014)

Election Voting was held on 15 October and the result was announced four days later. Voter turnout for the Assembly election set a new state record with 76.54%. A total of 1,351 candidates, of which 116 were women, contested for the 90 seats (an average of 15 candidates per seat). This was the highest number of total and women candidates in Haryana assembly elections since its formation in 1966.

Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) was used along with EVMs in 6 out of 90 assembly constituencies in Haryana-Thanesar, Karnal, Panipat city, Sonipat, Rohtak and Gurgaon.

Among other practices to ensure a fair election, photo electoral rolls and photo identification were mandatory during the election. Each polling booth was provided with multiple Awareness Observers as non-participating members to verify free and fair voting and access.Awareness Observers Chief Elections Officer, Haryana (2014) Every polling station was also equipped with basic minimum facilities such as access to drinking water, toilet and a ramp for the disabled. The voters cast their vote at 16,244 polling booths. The poll was conducted using electronic voting machines.

Exit polls Publish Date Source Polling Organisation Congress BJP INLD HJC Others 15 October 2014 News 24 – Chanakya 10 (±5) 52 (±7) 23 (±7) 5 (±3) Times Now 15 37 28 6 4 ABP News – Nielsen 10 46 29 2 3 India TV – CVoter 15 (±3) 37 (±3) 28 (±3) 6 (±3) 4 (±3)

Result

The BJP won a majority with 47 seats. With BJP's alliance partner Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which won 1 seat, the NDA alliance of BJP and SAD won 48 seats. Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Won +/− Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 41,25,285 33.2 24.16% 47 43 Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) 29,96,203 24.1 1.68% 19 12 Indian National Congress (INC) 25,57,940 20.6 14.50%15 25 Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) (HJC(BL)) 4,43,444 3.6 3.8% 2 4 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 5,42,985 4.4 2.36% 1 1 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) 76,985 0.6 0.38% 1 Independents 13,17,633 10.6 2.56% 5 4 None of the Above (NOTA) 53,613 0.4 - colspan="2" Total 1,24,26,968 100.00 90 ±0Valid votes1,24,26,96899.94Invalid votes7,3110.06Votes cast / turnout1,24,34,27976.54Abstentions 38,69,46323.46Registered voters 1,63,03,742 Results by district +DivisionDistrictSeatsBJPINLDINCINDOTHAmbalaKurukshetra431000Ambala440000Yamunanagar440000Panchkula220000FaridabadFaridabad631101Nuh302010Palwal301200GurgaonMahendragarh440000Gurgaon440000Rewari330000HisarHisar723002Sirsa504001Jind513010Fatehabad312000KarnalKaithal410120Panipat430010Karnal550000RohtakSonipat610500Rohtak410300Jhajjar420200Bhiwani421100Charkhi Dadri211000Total9047191554

Results by constituency District Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % Panchkula 1 Kalka Latika Sharma 50,347 40.42 Pardeep Ch. 31,320 25.1419,02715.28 2 Panchkula Gian Chand Gupta 69,916 54.29 Kul Bhushan Goyal 25,314 19.6644,60234.63 Ambala 3 Naraingarh Nayab Singh Saini 55,931 39.79 Ram Kishan 31,570 22.4624,36117.33 4 Ambala Cantt. Anil Vij 66,605 52.49 Ch. Nirmal Singh 51,143 40.3115,46212.18 5 Ambala City Aseem Goel 60,216 37.30 Venod Sharma HJC(V) 36,964 22.9023,25214.40 6 Mulana (SC) Santosh Sarwan 49,970 32.16 Rajbir Singh 44,321 28.535,6493.63 Yamunanagar 7 Sadhaura (SC) Balwant Singh 63,772 38.74 Pinki Chhapper 49,626 30.1514,1468.59 8 Jagadhri Kanwar Pal Gujjar 74,203 44.79 Akram Khan 40,047 24.1834,15620.61 9 Yamunanagar Ghanshyam Dass 79,743 51.51 Dilbagh Singh 51,498 33.2628,24518.25 10 Radaur Shyam Singh Rana 67,076 45.50 Raj Kumar Bubka 28,369 19.2438,70726.26 Kurukshetra 11 Ladwa Pawan Saini 42,445 30.91 Bachan Kaur Barshami 39,453 28.732,9922.18 12 Shahbad (SC) Krishan Kumar 45,715 37.19 Ram Karan 45,153 36.745620.45 13 Thanesar Subhash Sudha 68,080 52.90 Ashok Kumar Arora 42,442 32.9825,63819.92 14 Pehowa Jaswinder Singh 49,110 37.69 Jai Bhagwan Sharma 39,763 30.529,3477.17 Kaithal 15 Guhla (SC) Kulwant Ram Bazigar 36,598 27.70 Dillu Ram 34,158 25.862,4401.84 16 Kalayat Jai Parkash 51,106 33.44 Ram Pal Majra 42,716 27.958,3905.49 17 Kaithal Randeep Surjewala 65,524 43.20 Kailash Bhagat 41,849 27.5923,67515.61 18 Pundri Dinesh Kaushik 38,312 27.78 Randhir Singh Gollen 33,480 24.284,8323.50 Karnal 19 Nilokheri (SC) Bhagwan Das 58,354 41.94 Mamu Ram 23,944 17.2134,41024.73 20 Indri Karan Dev Kamboj 45,756 32.58 Usha Kashyap 21,881 15.5823,87517.00 21 Karnal Manohar Lal Khattar 82,485 58.78 Jai Parkash Gupta 18,712 13.3363,77345.45 22 Gharaunda Harvinder Kalyan 55,247 35.51 Narender Sangwan 37,364 24.0217,88311.49 23 Assandh Bakhshish Virk 30,723 19.45 Maratha V. Verma 26,115 16.534,6082.92 Panipat 24 Panipat Rural Mahipal Dhanda 62,074 40.08 Dhara Singh Rawal 25,942 16.7536,13223.33 25 Panipat City Rohita Rewri 92,757 66.49 Virender Kumar Shah 39,036 27.9853,72138.51 26 Israna (SC) Krishan Lal Panwar 40,277 32.58 Balbir Singh 38,449 31.101,8281.48 27 Samalkha Ravinder Machhrouli 53,294 35.42 Dharam Chhoker 32,921 21.8820,37313.54 Sonipat 28 Ganaur Kuldeep Sharma 46,146 38.36 Nirmal Rani 38,603 32.097,5436.27 29 Rai Jai Tirath Dahiya 36,703 31.23 Inderjeet 36,700 31.2230.01 30 Kharkhauda (SC) Jaiveer Singh 37,829 37.42 Pawan Kharkhoda 23,647 23.3914,18214.03 31 Sonipat Kavita Jain 56,832 45.80 Dev Raj Diwan 31,022 25.0025,81020.80 32 Gohana Jagbir Singh Malik 41,393 35.36 Krishan C. Banger 38,165 32.603,2282.76 33 Baroda Krishan Hooda 50,530 41.93 Kapoor Narwal 45,347 37.635,1834.30 Jind 34 Julana Parminder Dhull 54,632 44.00 Dharmender Singh Dhull 31,826 25.6322,80618.37 35 Safidon Jasbir Deswal 29,369 21.93 Vandana Sharma 27,947 20.871,4221.06 36 Jind Hari Chand 31,631 25.99 Surender Barwala 29,374 24.132,2571.86 37 Uchana Kalan Premlata Singh 79,674 49.18 Dushyant Chautala 72,194 44.567,4804.62 38 Narwana (SC) Pirthi Singh 72,166 47.30 Santosh Rani 63,014 41.309,1526.00 Fatehabad 39 Tohana Subhash Barala 49,462 28.58 Nishan Singh 42,556 24.596,9063.99 40 Fatehabad Balwan Daulatpuria 60,539 32.71 Dura Ram 57,034 30.823,5051.89 41 Ratia (SC) Ravinder Baliala 50,905 32.43 Sunita Duggal 50,452 32.144530.29 Sirsa 42 Kalawali (SC) Balkaur Singh 54,112 40.32 Shishpal Keharwala 41,147 30.6612,9659.66 43 Dabwali Naina Singh Chautala 68,029 43.60 Kamalvir Singh 59,484 38.128,5455.48 44 Rania Ramchand Kamboj 43,971 30.65 Gobind Kanda 39,656 27.644,3153.01 45 Sirsa Makhan Lal Singla 46,573 32.31 Gopal Goyal Kanda 43,635 30.272,9382.04 46 Ellenabad Abhay Singh Chautala 69,162 46.70 Pawan Beniwal 57,623 38.9111,5397.79 Hisar 47 Adampur Kuldeep Bishnoi 56,757 47.10 Kulveer Beniwal 39,508 32.7817,24914.32 48 Uklana (SC) Anoop Dhanak 58,120 41.30 Seema Gaibipur 40,193 28.5617,92712.74 49 Narnaund Captain Abhimanyu 53,770 34.85 Raj Singh Mor 48,009 31.125,7613.73 50 Hansi Renuka Bishnoi 46,335 35.45 Umed Singh Lohan 31,683 24.2414,65211.21 51 Barwala Ved Narang 34,941 27.76 Surender Punia 24,680 19.6110,2618.15 52 Hisar Kamal Gupta 42,285 38.81 Savitri Jindal 28,639 26.2813,64612.53 53 Nalwa Ranbir Gangwa 41,950 35.89 Chander Mohan 34,835 29.807,1156.09 Bhiwani 54 Loharu Om Parkash Barwa 40,693 29.51 Jai Parkash Dalal 38,598 27.992,0951.52 Charkhi Dadri 55 Badhra Sukhvinder Sheoran 39,139 29.50 Ranbir Mahendra 34,133 25.725,0063.78 56 Dadri Rajdeep Phogat 43,400 32.84 Somveer Sangwan 41,790 31.621,6101.22 Bhiwani 57 Bhiwani Ghanshyam Saraf 50,020 38.35 Nirmla Saraf 21,423 16.4328,59721.92 58 Tosham Kiran Choudhry 58,218 38.48 Kamla Rani 38,477 25.4319,74113.05 59 Bawani Khera (SC) Bishamber Singh 47,323 33.51 Daya Bhurtana 44,764 31.702,5591.81 Rohtak 60 Meham Anand Singh Dangi 50,728 37.57 Shamsher Kharkara 41,071 30.419,6577.16 61 Garhi Sampla-Kiloi Bhupinder Hooda 80,693 57.31 Satish Nandal 33,508 23.8047,18533.51 62 Rohtak Manish Grover 57,718 50.57 Bharat Bhushan Batra 46,586 40.8211,1329.75 63 Kalanaur (SC) Shakuntla Khatak 50,451 39.65 Ram Avtar Balmiki 46,479 36.533,9723.12 Jhajjar 64 Bahadurgarh Naresh Kaushik 38,341 28.96 Rajinder Singh Joon 33,459 25.274,8823.69 65 Badli Om Prakash Dhankar 41,549 36.48 Kuldeep Vats 32,283 28.359,2668.13 66 Jhajjar (SC) Geeta Bhukkal 51,697 48.26 Sadhu Ram 25,113 23.4526,58424.81 67 Beri Raghuvir Kadian 36,793 31.64 Chatar Singh 32,300 27.774,4933.87 Mahendragarh 68 Ateli Santosh Yadav 64,659 49.71 Satbir 16,058 12.3548,60137.36 69 Mahendragarh Ram Bilas Sharma 83,724 59.89 Dan Singh Rao 49,233 35.2234,49124.67 70 Narnaul Om Parkash Yadav 31,664 32.80 Kamlesh 27,091 28.064,5734.74 71 Nangal Chaudhry Abhe Singh Yadav 33,929 33.35 Manju 32,948 32.399810.96 Rewari 72 Bawal (SC) Banwari Lal 72,792 52.86 Shyam Sunder 35,401 25.7137,39127.15 73 Kosli Bikram Thekedar 63,264 39.33 Jagdish Yadav 52,497 32.6410,7676.69 74 Rewari Randhir Kapriwas 81,103 52.92 Satish Yadav 35,637 23.2545,46629.67 Gurgaon 75 Pataudi (SC) Bimla Chaudhary 75,198 56.15 Ganga Ram 36,235 27.0538,96329.10 76 Badshahpur Rao Narbir Singh 86,672 39.82 Rakesh Daultabad 68,540 31.4918,1328.33 77 Gurgaon Umesh Aggarwal 1,06,106 55.86 Gopi Chand Gahlot 22,011 11.5984,09544.27 78 Sohna Tejpal Tawar 53,797 36.20 Kishore Yadav 29,250 19.6824,54716.52 Nuh 79 Nuh Zakir Hussain 64,221 52.35 Aftab Ahmed 31,425 25.6232,79626.73 80 Ferozepur Jhirka Naseem Ahmed 40,320 29.47 Mamman Khan 37,075 27.093,2452.38 81 Punahana Rahish Khan 34,281 29.56 Mohammad Ilyas 31,140 26.853,1412.71 Palwal 82 Hathin Kehar Singh 44,703 29.53 Harsh Kumar 38,331 25.326,3724.21 83 Hodal (SC) Udai Bhan 50,723 41.55 Jagdish Nayar 39,043 31.9811,6809.57 84 Palwal Karan Singh Dalal 57,423 37.52 Deepak Mangla 51,781 33.835,6423.69 Faridabad 85 Prithla Tek Chand Sharma 37,178 27.56 Nayan Pal Rawat 35,999 26.681,1790.88 86 Faridabad Nit Nagender Bhadana 45,740 31.95 Pandit Shiv Charan 42,826 29.912,9142.04 87 Badkhal Seema Trikha 70,218 52.51 Mahender Pratap Singh 33,609 25.1336,60927.38 88 Ballabhgarh Mool Chand Sharma 69,074 56.93 Lakhan Kumar Singla 15,976 13.1753,09843.76 89 Faridabad Vipul Goel 72,679 60.48 Anand Kaushik 27,898 23.2144,78137.27 90 Tigaon Lalit Nagar 55,408 37.14 Rajesh Nagar 52,470 35.172,9381.97

Government formation