Within the 90-member Haryana Meeting, the place the BJP returned to energy for a 3rd consecutive time period with an absolute majority, a complete of 49 seats have flipped from one get together to a different because the 2019 polls.
Amongst these 49 flipped seats, the BJP and Congress every gained 22 seats that they’d misplaced in 2019. The remaining 5 seats embody two that flipped to the Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) and three to Independents this time.
Notably, the Congress clinched 10 of its 22 flipped seats from regional gamers and Independents who had gained in 2019. The get together wrested the remaining 12 seats from the ruling BJP, which itself obtained 14 seats from the Congress.
Of the 40 seats the BJP had gained in 2019, the get together retained 26 or 65%. In distinction, the Congress retained simply 15 of the 31 seats it had gained in 2019, or simply or 48%.
The Jannayak Janta Get together (JJP), which had gained 10 seats within the 2019 Meeting elections and entered right into a post-poll alliance with the BJP to kind the federal government, didn’t retain any of its seats. The Congress gained six of the JJP’s seats. together with Julana, the place Olympian wrestler Vinesh Phogat made her electoral debut. The BJP flipped the remaining 4 seats gained by the JJP in 2019.
The JJP had contested this time in an alliance with the Chandrashekhar Azad-led Aazad Samaj Get together (Kanshi Ram).
The INLD, which gained two seats this time, misplaced the one seat it had gained in 2019 – Ellenabad, a status seat for the get together that was contested by sitting MLA Abhay Chautala, son of former Chief Minister O P Chautala. The Congress gained Ellenabad this time by 15,000 votes. The INLD contested these polls in an alliance with the Mayawati-led BSP in a failed try and develop a Jat-Dalit mixture. The BSP was unable to win any seat and Mayawati hinted that the Jat group’s “anti-Dalit” bias was chargeable for this.
The Congress gained one seat – Sirsa – that had been secured in 2019 by the Gopal Kanda-led Haryana Lokhit Get together (HLP), which was backed by the BJP this time. In 2019, the Congress had completed fourth in Sirsa, which the HLP had gained by simply 602 votes.
Among the many seven seats that the Independents had gained in 2019, the BJP gained 4, the Congress two, and the INLD one this time.
The brand new Home additionally displays the BJP’s strengthening maintain within the Grand Trunk Street belt, the Yadav belt, southern Haryana and the Nationwide Capital Area (NCR), particularly in constituencies bordering Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. Nevertheless, the Congress was capable of strengthen its maintain in seats bordering Punjab.
In Central Haryana and different Jat-dominated areas, each the BJP and Congress had been capable of win seats. Among the many 22 seats the BJP gained this 12 months that it hadn’t in 2019, six fall within the Jat belt, together with Gohana, Kharkhauda, Safidon, Sonipat, Dadri and Uchana Kalan.
Within the GT Street Belt, the BJP was capable of win seven seats that it had not in 2019, serving to it broaden its presence in what was already a stronghold area. The Congress too gained although by 5 seats on this area. The GT Street belt has 25 seats unfold throughout six districts.
The brand new political map of Haryana additionally reveals that the BJP and Congress’s seats are concentrated in patches throughout the state. For instance, of the BJP’s whole 48 seats, 21 seats span from central Haryana to the UP border, whereas one other 24 are unfold from central Haryana in the direction of the borders of Delhi and Rajasthan.
The Congress’s seats embody a focus of 18 constituencies between central Haryana to the western elements of the state, and 12 seats concentrated to the north alongside the Punjab border.
Out of the 15 Meeting seats bordering the Aam Aadmi Get together-ruled Punjab, the Congress gained 11, the BJP three, and the INLD one. Considerably, eight of the Congress’s new seats border Punjab, whereas the BJP gained solely three new seats alongside the Punjab border.