Haryana Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE updates: BJP leads in 4 seats, Congress leads in 5 seats, early trends suggest

As the vote counting for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 has begun, early trends in Haryana suggest that the INDIA alliance is leading over the NDA.

Here is what the early trends are suggesting:

- BJP is leading in 4 seats: Hisar, Karnal, Sonipat, and Ambala according to early trends.
- Congress candidate Raj Babbar is leading in Gurgaon.
- Former CM and BJP candidate Manohar Lal Khattar is leading from Karnal, against Divyanshu Budhiraja of Congress.
- BJP candidate Krishan Pal is leading from Faridabad.
- BJP's Ranjit Singh is leading in Hisar against Congress candidate Jai Prakash.
- Close competition between BJP and Congress in the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh seat.
- AAP's Sushil Gupta is leading from Kurukshetra.
- BJP candidate Banto Kataria is leading from Ambala (SC) against Divyanshu Budhiraja of Congress.

All ten seats in Haryana went for poll in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 on May 25. The Lok Sabha seats that went for polls in Haryana are Ambala, Kurukshetra, Sirsa, Hisar, Karnal, Sonipat, Rohtak, Bhiwani-Mahendragarh, Gurgaon and Faridabad.

The BJP has chosen former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar against Congress' Divyanshu Budhiraja in the Karnal seat. Businessman Naveen Jindal has been nominated by the BJP from Kurukshetra, where he will face opposition from Sushil Gupta of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Abhay Singh Chautala of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD).

In an attempt to penetrate the BJP stronghold, the Congress, on the other hand, has put actor-politician Raj Babbar of Gurgaon up against three-time MP Rao Inderjit Singh. Deepinder Singh Hooda, the son of Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has been selected by the Congress to challenge Arvind Kumar Sharma of the BJP for the Rohtak Lok Sabha constituency.

Exit Poll Results:

The India Today My Axis exit poll has predicted that the BJP is expected to win between 6-8 seats while the Congress might get 2-4 seats. 

Voting share in percentage:

- BJP:48%

- CONG: 44%

- JJP: 2%

- INLD: 3%

- OTH: 3%

However, after the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) faced a split within its ranks recently, the alliance with the BJP has caused tensions within the JJP, as some members feel that the party's association with the ruling party is detrimental to its image and interests. The split within the JJP could lead to divisions in the party's support base and affect its electoral performance in the upcoming elections.

On the other hand, the ongoing farmers' protests in Haryana have been a major point of contention for the ruling BJP-JJP coalition government. Farmers in the state have been protesting against the farm laws passed by the central government and have raised concerns about issues such as MSP, Swaminathan report recommendations, and the overall impact of the laws on their livelihoods. The government's handling of the protests, including instances of police action and lack of dialogue with the farmers, has further fueled tensions and could lead to a backlash from the farming community in the elections.

Previous Lok Sabha Results

There was a direct face-off between the BJP and Congress in nine out of the ten constituencies in Haryana. The competition was trilateral solely on the Hisar seat. In the 2014 elections, BJP secured seven seats with a 34 percent vote share, and in 2019, they campaigned under the banner of PM Narendra Modi, leading to a clean sweep across all ten seats in Haryana.

While the 2019 exit polls predicted BJP winning six to eight seats in Haryana and Congress securing two to four seats, the election results defied expectations. The party bagged all ten seats with a 58.02 percent vote share.